{Cretes and Arabians}. These two groups "seem to have been
added to the list as an afterthought" (Knowling). Crete is an
island to itself and Arabia was separate also though near Judea
and full of Jews. The point is not that each one of these groups
of Jews spoke a different language, but that wherever there was a
local tongue they heard men speaking in it. {We do hear them
speaking} (akouomen lalount(936e) aut(936e)). Genitive case aut(936e)
with akou(935c) the participle lalount(936e) agreeing with aut(936e), a
sort of participial idiom of indirect discourse (Robertson,
_Grammar_, pp. 1040ff.). {The mighty works} (	a megaleia). Old
adjective for magnificent. In LXX, but only here (not genuine in
 Lu 1:49 ) in the N.T. Cf.  2Pe 1:16  for megaleiot(8873)
(majesty).