Acts 2:3-47 ▼

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.

25 For David says about Him: ‘I foresaw the Lord before me through all, because He is at my right hand, that I should not be shaken.

26 Because of this my heart was glad and my tongue rejoiced, and now also my flesh will dwell in hope,

27 for You will not abandon my soul into Hades, nor will You give Your Holy One to see decay.

28 You made known to me the paths of life; You will fill me with joy in Your presence.’

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

30 being therefore a prophet and knowing that God swore to him with an oath to seat one out of the fruit of his loins upon his throne.

31 Having foreseen, he spoke concerning the resurrection of the Christ, that neither was He abandoned into Hades, nor did His flesh see decay.

32 This Jesus God raised up, of which we all are witnesses.

33 Therefore, having been exalted to the right hand of God and having received the promise of the Holy Spirit from the Father, He poured out this which you? both see and hear.

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

35 until I place Your enemies as a footstool for Your feet.”’

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

37 And having heard, they were pierced to the heart and said to Peter and the other apostles, “Men, brothers, what shall we do?”

38 And Peter says to them, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you?, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your? sins, and you? will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

39 For the promise is to you? and to your? children and to all those at a distance, as many as the Lord our God shall summon.”

40 And he earnestly testified many other words and was exhorting them, saying, “Be saved from this crooked generation.”

41 Therefore those indeed having received his word were baptized, and on that day about three thousand souls were added.

42 Now they were steadfastly continuing in the teaching of the apostles and in the fellowship, in the breaking of the bread and in the prayers.

43 And fear was coming upon every soul, and many wonders and signs were taking place through the apostles.

44 And all those believing were in the same place and were having all things in common.

45 And they were selling the possessions and the goods and were dividing them to all, as anyone had need.

46 And every day they were steadfastly continuing with one accord in the temple and breaking bread at each house. They were partaking of food with gladness and sincerity of heart,

47 praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord kept adding every day to the same those being saved.