Acts 2:6-38

⁶and the rumour of this having come, the multitude came together, and was confounded, because they were each one hearing them speaking in his proper dialect,

⁷and they were all amazed, and did wonder, saying one unto another, 'Lo, are not all these who are speaking Galileans?

⁸and how do we hear, each in our proper dialect, in which we were born?

⁹Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and those dwelling in Mesopotamia, in Judea also, and Cappadocia, Pontus, and Asia,

¹⁰Phrygia also, and Pamphylia, Egypt, and the parts of Libya, that are along Cyrene, and the strangers of Rome, both Jews and proselytes,

¹¹Cretes and Arabians, we did hear them speaking in our tongues the great things of God.'

¹²And they were all amazed, and were in doubt, saying one unto another, 'What would this wish to be?'

¹³and others mocking said, — 'They are full of sweet wine;'

¹⁴and Peter having stood up with the eleven, lifted up his voice and declared to them, 'Men, Jews! and all those dwelling in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and harken to my sayings,

¹⁵for these are not drunken, as ye take it up, for it is the third hour of the day.

¹⁶'But this is that which hath been spoken through the prophet Joel:

¹⁷And it shall be in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams;

¹⁸and also upon My men-servants, and upon My maid-servants, in those days, I will pour out of My Spirit, and they shall prophesy;

¹⁹and I will give wonders in the heaven above, and signs upon the earth beneath — blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke,

²⁰the sun shall be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the coming of the day of the Lord — the great and illustrious;

²¹and it shall be, every one — whoever shall call upon the name of the Lord, he shall be saved.

²²'Men, Israelites! hear these words, Jesus the Nazarene, a man approved of God among you by mighty works, and wonders, and signs, that God did through him in the midst of you, according as also ye yourselves have known;

²³this one, by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, being given out, having taken by lawless hands, having crucified — ye did slay;

²⁴whom God did raise up, having loosed the pains of the death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it,

²⁵for David saith in regard to him: I foresaw the Lord always before me — because He is on my right hand — that I may not be moved;

²⁶because of this was my heart cheered, and my tongue was glad, and yet — my flesh also shall rest on hope,

²⁷because Thou wilt not leave my soul to hades, nor wilt Thou give Thy Kind One to see corruption;

²⁸Thou didst make known to me ways of life, Thou shalt fill me with joy with Thy countenance.

²⁹'Men, brethren! it is permitted to speak with freedom unto you concerning the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is among us unto this day;

³⁰a prophet, therefore, being, and knowing that with an oath God did swear to him, out of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, to raise up the Christ, to sit upon his throne,

³¹having foreseen, he did speak concerning the rising again of the Christ, that his soul was not left to hades, nor did his flesh see corruption.

³²'This Jesus did God raise up, of which we are all witnesses;

³³at the right hand then of God having been exalted — also the promise of the Holy Spirit having received from the Father — he was shedding forth this, which now ye see and hear;

³⁴for David did not go up to the heavens, and he saith himself: The Lord saith to my lord, Sit thou at my right hand,

³⁵till I make thy foes thy footstool;

³⁶assuredly, therefore, let all the house of Israel know, that both Lord and Christ did God make him — this Jesus whom ye did crucify.'

³⁷And having heard, they were pricked to the heart; they say also to Peter, and to the rest of the apostles, 'What shall we do, men, brethren?'

³⁸and Peter said unto them, 'Reform, and be baptized each of you on the name of Jesus Christ, to remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit,