Acts 2:1-24 ▼

1 And in the arriving of the day of Pentecost, they were all together at the same place.

2 And suddenly a sound like a violent rushing of wind came out of heaven, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting.

3 And there appeared to them dividing tongues as of fire, and they sat upon each one of them.

4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit was giving to them to declare forth.

5 Now there were Jews dwelling in Jerusalem, devout men from every nation under heaven.

6 Now this sound having happened, the multitude came together and was confounded, because each one was hearing them speaking in his own language.

7 And they were amazed and were marveling, saying, “Behold, are not all these who are speaking Galileans?

8 And how do we each hear our own language in which we were born?

9 Parthians and Medes and Elamites; and those inhabiting Mesopotamia, also Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,

10 both Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya that are around Cyrene; and those visiting from Rome,

11 both Jews and converts; Cretans and Arabs—we hear them speaking in our own tongues the great things of God!”

12 And all were amazed and were perplexed, saying to one another, “What does this wish to be?”

13 But others, mocking, were saying, “They are full of new wine!”

14 But Peter, having stood up with the Eleven, lifted up his voice and declared forth to them: “Men of Judea and all those inhabiting Jerusalem, let this be known to you?, and give heed to my words.

15 For these are not drunkards, as you? suppose, for it is the third hour of the day!

16 But this is that having been spoken by the prophet Joel:

17 ‘And it will come to pass in the last days, God says, that I will pour out from My Spirit upon all flesh, and your? sons and your? daughters will prophesy, and your? young men will see visions, and your? old men will dream dreams.

18 And even on My menservants and on My maidservants I will pour out from My Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy.

19 And I will show wonders in the heaven above and signs on the earth below, blood and fire and vapor of smoke.

20 The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the coming Day of the Lord, great and glorious.

21 And it will come to pass that everyone who shall call upon the name of the Lord will be saved.”

22 Men, Israelites, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man having been set forth by God to you? by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did through Him in your? midst, as you yourselves know,

23 Him delivered up by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, you? put to death, having crucified by lawless hands—

24 whom God raised up, having loosed the agony of death, inasmuch as it was not possible for Him to be held by it.