Acts 2:7-40

⁷They were utterly amazed, and kept asking in astonishment, “What! Are not all these people who are speaking Galileans?

⁸Then how is it that we each of us hear them in our own language?

⁹Some of us are Parthians, some Medes, some Elamites; and some of us live in Mesopotamia, in Judea and Cappadocia, in Pontus and Roman Asia,

¹⁰in Phrygia and Pamphylia, in Egypt and the districts of Libya adjoining Cyrene; some of us are visitors from Rome,

¹¹either Jews by birth or converts, and some are Cretans and Arabians — yet we all alike hear them speaking in our own languages of the great things that God has done.”

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 among you through him, as you know full well —

²³He, I say, in accordance with God's definite plan and with his previous knowledge, was betrayed, and you, by the hands of lawless men, nailed him to a cross and put him to death.

²⁴But God released him from the pangs of death and raised him to life, it being impossible for death to retain its hold on him.

²⁵Indeed he was the one David was referring to when he said — ‘I have had the Lord ever before my eyes, For he stands at my right hand, so that I should not be disquieted.

²⁶Therefore my heart was cheered, and my tongue told its delight; Yes, even my body, too, will rest in hope;

²⁷For you will not abandon my soul to Hades, Nor surrender me, your holy one, to undergo corruption.

²⁸You have shown me the path to life, You will fill me with gladness in your presence.’

²⁹Friends, I can speak to you the more confidently about the patriarch David, because he is dead and buried, and his tomb is here among us to this very day.

³⁰David, then, prophet as he was, knowing that God had solemnly sworn to him to set one of his descendants on his throne, looked into the future,

³¹and referred to the resurrection of the Christ when he said that he had not been abandoned to Hades, nor had his body undergone corruption.

³²It was this Jesus, whom God raised to life; and of that we are ourselves all witnesses.

³³And now that he has been exalted to the right hand of God, and has received from the Father the promised gift of the Holy Spirit, he has begun to pour out that gift, as you yourselves now see and hear.

³⁴It was not David who went up into heaven; for he himself says — ‘The Lord said to my master, “Sit on my right hand,

³⁵Until I put your enemies as a footstool under your feet.”’

³⁶So let the whole nation of Israel know beyond all doubt, that God has made him both Lord and Christ — this Jesus whom you crucified.”

³⁷When the people heard this, they were conscience-smitten, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Friends, what can we do?”

³⁸“Repent,” answered Peter, “and be baptized every one of you in the faith of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and then you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

³⁹For the promise is for you and for your children, and also for all those now far away, who may be called by the Lord our God.”

⁴⁰Peter spoke to them for a long time using many other arguments and pleaded with them — “Save yourselves from the perverse spirit of this age.”