Astounded and amazed, they asked, “Are not all these who are speaking Galileans?
We have here an account of the public notice that was taken of this extraordinary gift with which the disciples were all on a sudden endued. Observe, I. The great concourse of people that there was now at Jerusalem, it should seem more than was usual at the feast of pentecost.
Commenting on Acts 2:5-13
And they were all amazed, and marvelled,.... They were struck with surprise, they were as it were out of themselves, like persons in an ecstasy, not knowing what could be the cause or meaning of this: saying one to another; the phrase "one to another", is left out in the Vulgate Latin and Ethiopic versions, and so it is in the Alexandrian copy: behold, are...
Verse 7. Galilaeans. Inhabitants of Galilee. It was remarkable that they should speak in this manner, because (1) they were proverbially ignorant, rude, and uncivilized, . Hence the term Galilaeans was used as an expression of the deepest reproach and contempt, . (2.) Their dialect was proverbially barbarous and corrupt, .