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Originally Posted by coksiw
Acts 2:7-8 (NKJV) 7 Then they were all amazed and marveled, saying to one another, “Look, are not all these who speak Galileans? 8 “And how [is it that] we hear, each in our own language in which we were born?
Do you think they all actually asked the exact question one to another? That’s what the grammar says.
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They all certainly asked the same question, though perhaps not with those exact words in each case. That is, they all said to one another "What's going on here? Aren't these people Galileans? And yet we hear them all speaking in our own native languages?"
A paraphrase does not change the number or person of that which is being paraphrased, otherwise it's not really a paraphrase because it no longer has the same import. Does that make sense?
The visitors may have said what they said in slightly different ways, while still saying the same thing (the same meaning). But to change "they each heard them speak in his own language" to "maybe some heard some in some languages" changes the actual meaning of what happened.
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