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Selected Verse: Acts 2:12 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ac 2:12 |
King James |
And they were all amazed, and were in doubt, saying one to another, What meaneth this? |
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| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| Were in doubt - This expression, διηπόρουν diēporoun, denotes "a state of hesitancy or anxiety about an event." It is applied to those who are traveling, and are ignorant of the way, or who hesitate about the road. They were all astonished at this; they did not know how to understand it or explain it, until some of them supposed that it was merely the effect of new wine. |
| Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886] |
Were in doubt (διηπόρουν)
Used by Luke only. See on Luk 9:7. Better, as Rev., perplexed. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| They were all amazed - All the devout men. |
7 Now Herod the tetrarch heard of all that was done by him: and he was perplexed, because that it was said of some, that John was risen from the dead;