Acts 2:14-36

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Peter Addresses the Crowd

¹⁴Then Peter stood up with the Eleven, raised his voice and addressed the crowd: “Fellow Jews and all of you who live in Jerusalem, let me explain this to you; listen carefully to what I say. ¹⁵These people are not drunk, as you suppose. It’s only nine in the morning!^(A) ¹⁶No, this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:

¹⁷“‘In the last days, God says,
    I will pour out my Spirit on all people.^(B)
Your sons and daughters will prophesy,^(C)
    your young men will see visions,
    your old men will dream dreams.
¹⁸Even on my servants, both men and women,
    I will pour out my Spirit in those days,
    and they will prophesy.^(D)
¹⁹I will show wonders in the heavens above
    and signs on the earth below,^(E)
    blood and fire and billows of smoke.
²⁰The sun will be turned to darkness
    and the moon to blood^(F)
    before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord.
²¹And everyone who calls
    on the name of the Lord^(G) will be saved.’^[a]^(H)

²²“Fellow Israelites, listen to this: Jesus of Nazareth^(I) was a man accredited by God to you by miracles, wonders and signs,^(J) which God did among you through him,^(K) as you yourselves know. ²³This man was handed over to you by God’s deliberate plan and foreknowledge;^(L) and you, with the help of wicked men,^[b] put him to death by nailing him to the cross.^(M) ²⁴But God raised him from the dead,^(N) freeing him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for death to keep its hold on him.^(O) ²⁵David said about him:

“‘I saw the Lord always before me.
    Because he is at my right hand,
    I will not be shaken.
²⁶Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices;
    my body also will rest in hope,
²⁷because you will not abandon me to the realm of the dead,
    you will not let your holy one see decay.^(P)
²⁸You have made known to me the paths of life;
    you will fill me with joy in your presence.’^[c]^(Q)

²⁹“Fellow Israelites,^(R) I can tell you confidently that the patriarch^(S) David died and was buried,^(T) and his tomb is here^(U) to this day. ³⁰But he was a prophet and knew that God had promised him on oath that he would place one of his descendants on his throne.^(V) ³¹Seeing what was to come, he spoke of the resurrection of the Messiah, that he was not abandoned to the realm of the dead, nor did his body see decay.^(W) ³²God has raised this Jesus to life,^(X) and we are all witnesses^(Y) of it. ³³Exalted^(Z) to the right hand of God,^(AA) he has received from the Father^(AB) the promised Holy Spirit^(AC) and has poured out^(AD) what you now see and hear. ³⁴For David did not ascend to heaven, and yet he said,

“‘The Lord said to my Lord:
“Sit at my right hand
³⁵until I make your enemies
a footstool for your feet.”’^[d]^(AE)

³⁶“Therefore let all Israel be assured of this: God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord^(AF) and Messiah.”^(AG)

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Footnotes

Acts 2:21 Joel 2:28-32
Acts 2:23 Or of those not having the law (that is, Gentiles)
Acts 2:28 Psalm 16:8-11 (see Septuagint)
Acts 2:35 Psalm 110:1

Joel 2:18-27

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The Lord’s Answer

¹⁸Then the Lord was jealous^(A) for his land
and took pity^(B) on his people.

¹⁹The Lord replied^[a] to them:

“I am sending you grain, new wine^(C) and olive oil,^(D)
enough to satisfy you fully;^(E)
never again will I make you
an object of scorn^(F) to the nations.

²⁰“I will drive the northern horde^(G) far from you,
    pushing it into a parched and barren land;
its eastern ranks will drown in the Dead Sea
    and its western ranks in the Mediterranean Sea.
And its stench^(H) will go up;
    its smell will rise.”

Surely he has done great things!
²¹    Do not be afraid,^(I) land of Judah;
    be glad and rejoice.^(J)
Surely the Lord has done great things!^(K)
²²    Do not be afraid, you wild animals,
    for the pastures in the wilderness are becoming green.^(L)
The trees are bearing their fruit;
    the fig tree^(M) and the vine^(N) yield their riches.^(O)
²³Be glad, people of Zion,
    rejoice^(P) in the Lord your God,
for he has given you the autumn rains
    because he is faithful.^(Q)
He sends you abundant showers,^(R)
    both autumn^(S) and spring rains,^(T) as before.
²⁴The threshing floors will be filled with grain;
    the vats will overflow^(U) with new wine^(V) and oil.

²⁵“I will repay you for the years the locusts^(W) have eaten^(X)—
    the great locust and the young locust,
    the other locusts and the locust swarm^[b]—
my great army^(Y) that I sent among you.
²⁶You will have plenty to eat, until you are full,^(Z)
    and you will praise^(AA) the name of the Lord your God,
    who has worked wonders^(AB) for you;
never again will my people be shamed.^(AC)
²⁷Then you will know^(AD) that I am in Israel,
    that I am the Lord^(AE) your God,
    and that there is no other;
never again will my people be shamed.^(AF)

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Footnotes

Joel 2:19 Or Lord will be jealous … / and take pity … / ¹⁹The Lord will reply
Joel 2:25 The precise meaning of the four Hebrew words used here for locusts is uncertain.