“And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galileans?”
Utterly amazed, they asked: 'Aren't all these who are speaking Galileans? — the amazement (existano, astound/bewilderment) at Galileans speaking multiple languages is linguistically impossible unless divine power intervenes. Galilee was a marginal region; Galileans were rural, unpolished, unlikely to be multilingual. The social anomaly underscores the Spirit's power to transcend human limitation.
Church Fathers on Acts 2:7
Because that every man heard them speak in his own language. And they were amazed, it says, and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galileans? Acts 2:7-13 They immediately turned their eyes towards the Apostles. And how (it follows) hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born? Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia, Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in…
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