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Cretans and Arabians: we hear them speaking in our languages the mighty works of God!"
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The Message Was the Gospel
The miraculous speech was not random noise but coherent praise. Commentators explain that declaring "the mighty works of God" meant proclaiming the story of salvation through Jesus—His incarnation, miracles, death, and resurrection. The first message of the Spirit-filled church was the gospel, expressed as worship.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Cretes. Crete, now called Candia, is an island in the Mediterranean, about 200 miles in length and 50 in breadth, about …
Cretes and Arabians . These two groups "seem to have been added to the list as an afterthought" (Knowling). Crete is an island to …
19th Century
Anglican
The wonderful works of God.—Better, the great things, or the majesty, of God. The word is the same as in Luke 1:…
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Baptist
And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a r…
Why these fifteen countries and no others are named here and why they are cited in this order are questions without ready solutions. Presumably Luk…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Cretes and Arabians The former are either the same with the Cretians, (Titus 1:12) the inhabitants of th…
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The difference in languages which arose at Babel has greatly hindered the spread of knowledge and religion. The instruments whom the Lord first emp…
