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Acts 2:5-23

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5Now there were devout men, Jews, from every nation under heaven, dwelling in Jerusalem.
6So when that roar occurred, the crowd came together, and was bewildered, because each one was hearing them speaking to him in his own dialect.
7So they were amazed and marveled, saying to one another: “Hey, aren't all these who are speaking Galileans?
8So how can each of us be hearing our own dialect in which we were born?
9Parthians and Medes and Elamites; those dwelling in Mesopotamia, in Judea and Cappadocia, in Pontus and Asia,
10in Phrygia and Pamphylia, in Egypt and the parts of Libya adjoining Cyrene; and visitors from Rome—both Jews and proselytes—
11Cretans and Arabians; we hear them declaring the great works of God in our own languages.”
12Yes they were all amazed and perplexed, saying one to another, “Whatever is going on?”
13But different ones were jeering, saying, “They are full of sweet wine!”
14So Peter, standing with the eleven, raised his voice and proclaimed to them: “Men—Jews and all who are dwelling in Jerusalem—let this be known to you; indeed, listen to my speech!
15Because these are not drunk, as you suppose (since it is only the third hour of the day),
16but this is what was spoken through the prophet Joel:
17‘It will be in the last days, says God: I will pour out from my Spirit upon all flesh; your sons and your daughters will prophesy; your young men will see visions; your old men will dream a dream.
18In those days I will indeed pour out from my Spirit upon my male slaves and upon my female slaves, and they will prophesy.
19I will show wonders in the heaven above and signs on the earth below: blood and fire and smoke vapor.
20The sun will be turned into darkness and the moon into ‘blood’ before the great and glorious day of the Lord will come.
21And it will be: whoever calls on the name of the Lord will be saved!’
22“Men of Israel, listen to these words: Jesus the Natsorean, a man from God attested to you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by Him in your midst, as you yourselves well know,
23Him—being delivered up by the established purpose and foreknowledge of God—you murdered, having taken Him with lawless hands and crucified Him;

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