Acts 2:12

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

And they were all amazed, and were in doubt, saying one unto another, `What would this wish to be?'

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Referenced Verses

  • Luke 15:26 : 26 and having called near one of the young men, he was inquiring what these things might be,
  • Luke 18:36 : 36 and having heard a multitude going by, he was inquiring what this may be,
  • Acts 2:7 : 7 and they were all amazed, and did wonder, saying one unto another, `Lo, are not all these who are speaking Galileans?
  • Acts 10:17 : 17 And as Peter was perplexed in himself what the vision that he saw might be, then, lo, the men who have been sent from Cornelius, having made inquiry for the house of Simon, stood at the gate,
  • Acts 17:20 : 20 for certain strange things thou dost bring to our ears? we wish, then, to know what these things would wish to be;'

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