And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying, Behold, are not all these that speak Galilaeans?

'AMAZED AND MARVELLED'-'beside themselves with wonder' (Wey).

'ARE NOT ALL THESE THAT SPEAK'-'Those who believe that more than the twelve apostles were baptized with the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost are hard pressed by this expression. Were all the 120 Galileans?' (Reese p. 52)

'GALILEANS'-'Galilean men came from. despised district (John 7:52) where education was scanty, the standard of culture low, and the spoken dialect was peculiar (Mark 14:30)....the apostles dress would have aided in their identification by the devout men..' (Reese p. 51) 'This was an international, multi-lingual crowd which gathered...Yet the speakers were known to be Galileans..who had. reputation for being uncultured..so they were looked down upon by the people of Jerusalem as being provincial.' (Stott p. 65)

Galileans spoke. rude Aramaic...i.e. they didn't even excel in their own native language-not to mention. foreign dialect.

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