Acts 10:46
New International Version
For they heard them speaking in tongues and praising God. Then Peter said,

New Living Translation
For they heard them speaking in other tongues and praising God. Then Peter asked,

English Standard Version
For they were hearing them speaking in tongues and extolling God. Then Peter declared,

Berean Standard Bible
For they heard them speaking in tongues and exalting God. Then Peter said,

Berean Literal Bible
For they were hearing them speaking in tongues and magnifying God. Then Peter answered,

King James Bible
For they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God. Then answered Peter,

New King James Version
For they heard them speak with tongues and magnify God. Then Peter answered,

New American Standard Bible
For they were hearing them speaking with tongues and exalting God. Then Peter responded,

NASB 1995
For they were hearing them speaking with tongues and exalting God. Then Peter answered,

NASB 1977
For they were hearing them speaking with tongues and exalting God. Then Peter answered,

Legacy Standard Bible
For they were hearing them speaking with tongues and magnifying God. Then Peter answered,

Amplified Bible
For they heard them talking in [unknown] tongues (languages) and exalting and magnifying and praising God. Then Peter said,

Christian Standard Bible
For they heard them speaking in tongues and declaring the greatness of God. Then Peter responded,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For they heard them speaking in other languages and declaring the greatness of God. Then Peter responded, “

American Standard Version
For they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God. Then answered Peter,

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
For they heard them speaking in various languages and magnifying God, and Shimeon was saying:

Contemporary English Version
Now they were hearing Gentiles speaking unknown languages and praising God. Peter said,

Douay-Rheims Bible
For they heard them speaking with tongues, and magnifying God.

English Revised Version
For they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God. Then answered Peter,

GOD'S WORD® Translation
They heard these non-Jewish people speaking in other languages and praising God. Then Peter said,

Good News Translation
For they heard them speaking in strange tongues and praising God's greatness. Peter spoke up:

International Standard Version
because they heard them speaking in foreign languages and praising God. Then Peter said,

Literal Standard Version
for they were hearing them speaking with tongues and magnifying God.

Majority Standard Bible
For they heard them speaking in tongues and exalting God. Then Peter said,

New American Bible
for they could hear them speaking in tongues and glorifying God. Then Peter responded,

NET Bible
for they heard them speaking in tongues and praising God. Then Peter said,

New Revised Standard Version
for they heard them speaking in tongues and extolling God. Then Peter said,

New Heart English Bible
For they heard them speaking in other tongues and magnifying God. Then Peter answered,

Webster's Bible Translation
For they heard them speak in languages and magnify God. Then answered Peter,

Weymouth New Testament
For they heard them speaking in tongues and extolling the majesty of God. Then Peter said,

World English Bible
For they heard them speaking in other languages and magnifying God. Then Peter answered,

Young's Literal Translation
for they were hearing them speaking with tongues and magnifying God.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
The Gentiles Receive the Holy Spirit
45All the circumcised believers who had accompanied Peter were astounded that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles. 46For they heard them speaking in tongues and exalting God. Then Peter said, 47“Can anyone withhold the water to baptize these people? They have received the Holy Spirit just as we have!”…

Cross References
Mark 16:17
And these signs will accompany those who believe: In My name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues;

Acts 2:4
And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.

Acts 19:6
And when Paul laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came upon them, and they spoke in tongues and prophesied.


Treasury of Scripture

For they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God. Then answered Peter,

speak.

Acts 2:4,11
And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance…

Acts 19:6
And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.

1 Corinthians 14:20-25
Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men…

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Acts 10
1. Cornelius, a devout man, being commanded by an angel, sends for Peter,
11. who by a vision is taught not to despise the Gentiles;
17. and is commanded by the Spirit to go with the messenger to Caesarea.
25. Cornelius shows the occasion of his sending for him.
34. As he preaches Christ to Cornelius and his company,
44. the Holy Spirit falls on them, and they are baptized.














Verse 46. - For they heard them, etc. This was the incontrovertible evidence of their reception of the Holy Ghost (see Acts 11:15-18, and Acts 2:4 and 11, and note on ver. 4).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
For
γὰρ (gar)
Conjunction
Strong's 1063: For. A primary particle; properly, assigning a reason.

they heard
ἤκουον (ēkouon)
Verb - Imperfect Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 191: To hear, listen, comprehend by hearing; pass: is heard, reported. A primary verb; to hear.

them
αὐτῶν (autōn)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive Masculine 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

speaking
λαλούντων (lalountōn)
Verb - Present Participle Active - Genitive Masculine Plural
Strong's 2980: A prolonged form of an otherwise obsolete verb; to talk, i.e. Utter words.

in tongues
γλώσσαις (glōssais)
Noun - Dative Feminine Plural
Strong's 1100: The tongue; by implication, a language.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

exalting
μεγαλυνόντων (megalynontōn)
Verb - Present Participle Active - Genitive Masculine Plural
Strong's 3170: (a) I enlarge, lengthen, (b) I increase, magnify, extol. From megas; to make great, i.e. Increase or extol.

God.
Θεόν (Theon)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's 2316: A deity, especially the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; by Hebraism, very.

Then
Τότε (Tote)
Adverb
Strong's 5119: Then, at that time. From ho and hote; the when, i.e. At the time that.

Peter
Πέτρος (Petros)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 4074: Peter, a Greek name meaning rock. Apparently a primary word; a rock; as a name, Petrus, an apostle.

said,
ἀπεκρίθη (apekrithē)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Passive - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 611: From apo and krino; to conclude for oneself, i.e. to respond; by Hebraism to begin to speak.


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