Acts 2:8-38

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;

²⁴whom God raised up, ending the labor pains of death, because it was not possible that He should be held by it.

²⁵For David says concerning Him: ‘I always saw the Lord before my face, because He is at my right side so that I not be shaken.

²⁶Therefore my heart was glad and my tongue rejoiced. Furthermore, even my flesh will repose upon hope,

²⁷because You will not abandon my soul in Hades, nor will You allow Your Holy One to see decay.

²⁸You have made known to me roads of life; with Your presence You make me full of gladness.’

²⁹“Men, brothers, be it permitted to speak to you plainly about the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.

³⁰So then, he being a prophet and knowing that God had sworn to him with an oath that of the fruit, according to flesh, of his loins He would raise up the Messiah to sit on his throne,

³¹he foreseeing this spoke about the resurrection of the Messiah, that His soul was not abandoned in Hades, nor did His flesh see decay.

³²“This Jesus God raised, to which we all are witnesses.

³³Therefore, having been exalted to God's right hand, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He poured out this that you now see and hear.

³⁴Further, David did not ascend into the heavens, but he himself says: ‘The Lord said to my Lord: Sit at my right hand

³⁵until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.’

³⁶Therefore, let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God has made Him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified!”

³⁷Now upon hearing this they were cut to the heart and said to Peter, and the rest of the Apostles, “Men, brothers, what shall we do?!”

³⁸So Peter said to them: “Repent and be baptized, each one of you, upon the name of Jesus Christ, for forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.