“Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language.”
King James Version (KJV)
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary
2:5-13 The difference in languages which arose at Babel, has much hindered the spread of knowledge and religion. The instruments whom the Lord first employed in spreading the Christian religion, could have made no progress without this gift, which proved that their authority was from God.
“Then stood there up one in the council, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a doctor of the law, had in reputation among all the people, and commanded to put the apostles forth a little space;”
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