Good News Bible

Acts 2:5-11 Good News Bible (GNB)

5. There were Jews living in Jerusalem, religious people who had come from every country in the world.

6. When they heard this noise, a large crowd gathered. They were all excited, because each one of them heard the believers speaking in his or her own language.

7. In amazement and wonder they exclaimed, “These people who are talking like this are Galileans!

8. How is it, then, that all of us hear them speaking in our own native languages?

9. We are from Parthia, Media, and Elam; from Mesopotamia, Judea, and Cappadocia; from Pontus and Asia,

10. from Phrygia and Pamphylia, from Egypt and the regions of Libya near Cyrene. Some of us are from Rome,

11. both Jews and Gentiles converted to Judaism, and some of us are from Crete and Arabia — yet all of us hear them speaking in our own languages about the great things that God has done!”