2:6 When this was noised abroad. When this sound was heard (Revised Version).
The multitude came together. Led by the sound and the marvelous events.
Speak in his own language. Of the foreign country in which he had been reared.
2:6 The multitude came together, and were confounded - The motions of their minds were swift and various.
2:5-13 The difference in languages which arose at Babel, has much hindered the spread of knowledge and religion. The instruments whom the Lord first employed in spreading the Christian religion, could have made no progress without this gift, which proved that their authority was from God.
