The people in Jerusalem, whether locals or Jews from elsewhere, could not understand how the believers have come to speak the native languages of cities and regions outside Galilee. At the time, bilingualism was mostly limited to merchants and traders who spoke Greek and Latin along with the local language of a certain region.1 Additionally, the Jews from Jerusalem (and perhaps also those from the diaspora), considered the Jews from Galilee to be culturally backward and uneducated.2
7 And they were amazed and astonished, saying, “Are not all these who are speaking Galileans?