Acts 2:12-22

¹²They were all utterly amazed and bewildered. “What does it mean?” they asked one another.

¹³But there were some who said with a sneer, “They have had too much new wine.”

¹⁴Then Peter, surrounded by the eleven other apostles, stood up, and, raising his voice, addressed the crowd. “People of Judea,” he began, “and all you who are staying in Jerusalem, let me tell you what this means. Mark well my words.

¹⁵These people are not drunk, as you suppose; for it is only now nine in the morning! No!

¹⁶This is what is spoken of in the prophet Joel —

¹⁷‘It will come about in the last days,’ God says, ‘That I will pour out my Spirit on all humanity; Your sons and your daughters will become prophets, Your young men will see visions, And your old men dream dreams;

¹⁸Yes, even on the slaves — for they are mine — both men and women, I will in those days pour out my Spirit, And they will become prophets;

¹⁹And I will show wonders in the heavens above, And signs on the earth below — Blood and fire and mist of smoke;

²⁰The sun will become darkness, And the moon blood-red, Before the day of the Lord comes — that great and awful day.

²¹Then will everyone who invokes the name of the Lord be saved.’

²²People of Israel, listen to what I am saying. Jesus of Nazareth, a man whose mission from God to you was proved by miracles, wonders, and signs, which God showed amongst you through him, as you know full well —