Day of Pentecost

Acts 2:7-8 says, “Amazed and astonished, they asked, “Are not all these who are speaking Galileans? And how is it that we hear, each of us, in our own native language?” It is important to realize: a.) The pilgrim Jews in Jerusalem for Shavuot were not “amazed and astonished” that Galilean men were speaking foreign languages fluently. Instead, realize b.) Their amazement was in what was said to them, in their native tongues. The amazement and astonishment was from country bumpkins from Galilee telling them the deep meaning of the Torah. The fact it was clearly understood without anything being lost in translation is secondary in the list of amazing and astonishing things that were said.

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