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Acts 2:8-10
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Acts 2:8-10
New English Translation
8 And how is it that each one of us hears them[a] in our own native language?[b] 9 Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and the province of Asia,[c] 10 Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene,[d] and visitors from Rome,
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- Acts 2:8 tn Grk “we hear them, each one of us.”
- Acts 2:8 tn Grk “in our own language in which we were born.”
- Acts 2:9 tn Grk “Asia”; in the NT this always refers to the Roman province of Asia. The Roman province of Asia made up about one-third of modern Asia Minor and was on the western side of it. Asia lay to the west of the region of Phrygia and Galatia. The words “the province of” are supplied to indicate to the modern reader that this does not refer to the continent of Asia.
- Acts 2:10 tn According to BDAG 595 s.v. Λιβύη, the western part of Libya, Libya Cyrenaica, is referred to here (see also Josephus, Ant. 16.6.1 [16.160] for a similar phrase).
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