Section: 2:14-36 Peter Addresses the Crowd2:14–2:36View full chapter
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But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and spoke out to them, "You men of Judea, and all you who dwell at Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen to my words.
2:15
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For these aren't drunken, as you suppose, seeing it is only the third hour of the day.
2:16
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But this is what has been spoken through the prophet Joel:
2:17
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'It will be in the last days, says God, I will pour forth of my Spirit on all flesh. Your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your young men will see visions. Your old men will dream dreams.
2:18
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Yes, and on my servants and on my handmaidens in those days, I will pour out my Spirit, and they will prophesy.
2:19
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I will show wonders in the the sky above, And signs on the earth beneath; Blood, and fire, and billows of smoke.
2:20
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The sun will be turned into darkness, And the moon into blood, Before the great and glorious day of the Lord comes.
2:21
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It will be, that whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.'
2:22
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"You men of Israel, hear these words. Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved by God to you by mighty works and wonders and signs which God did by him in the midst of you, even as you yourselves know,
2:23
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him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;
2:24
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whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.
2:25
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For David says concerning him, 'I saw the Lord always before my face, For he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved.
2:26
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Therefore my heart was glad, and my tongue rejoiced. Moreover my flesh also will dwell in hope;
2:27
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Because you will not leave my soul in Hades, Neither will you allow your Holy One to see decay.
2:28
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You made known to me the ways of life. You will make me full of gladness with your presence.'
2:29
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"Brothers, I may tell you freely of the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.
2:30
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Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his body, according to the flesh, he would raise up the Christ to sit on his throne,
2:31
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he foreseeing this spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that neither was his soul left in Hades, nor did his flesh see decay.
2:32
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This Jesus God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses.
2:33
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Being therefore exalted by the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured forth this, which you now see and hear.
2:34
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For David didn't ascend into the heavens, but he says himself, 'The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit by my right hand,
2:35
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Until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet."'
2:36
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"Let all the house of Israel therefore know assuredly that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified."