Acts 2:14-24

Living Bible

¹⁴ Then Peter stepped forward with the eleven apostles and shouted to the crowd, “Listen, all of you, visitors and residents of Jerusalem alike! ¹⁵ Some of you are saying these men are drunk! It isn’t true! It’s much too early for that! People don’t get drunk by 9:00 A.M.! ¹⁶ No! What you see this morning was predicted centuries ago by the prophet Joel— ¹⁷ ‘In the last days,’ God said, ‘I will pour out my Holy Spirit upon all mankind, and your sons and daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men dream dreams. ¹⁸ Yes, the Holy Spirit shall come upon all my servants, men and women alike, and they shall prophesy. ¹⁹ And I will cause strange demonstrations in the heavens and on the earth—blood and fire and clouds of smoke; ²⁰ the sun shall turn black and the moon blood-red before that awesome Day of the Lord arrives. ²¹ But anyone who asks for mercy from the Lord shall have it and shall be saved.’

²² “O men of Israel, listen! God publicly endorsed Jesus of Nazareth by doing tremendous miracles through him, as you well know. ²³ But God, following his prearranged plan, let you use the Roman government^[a] to nail him to the cross and murder him. ²⁴ Then God released him from the horrors of death and brought him back to life again, for death could not keep this man within its grip.