Acts 2:17–38

¹⁷And it will be in the last days, says God,

that I will pour out my Spirit on all people;

then your sons and your daughters will prophesy,

your young men will see visions,

and your old men will dream dreams.^k

¹⁸I will even pour out my Spirit

on my servants in those days, both men and women

and they will prophesy.^l

¹⁹I will display wonders in the heaven above

and signs on the earth below:

blood and fire and a cloud of smoke.

²⁰The sun will be turned to darkness

and the moon to blood^m

before the great and glorious day of the Lordⁿ comes.

²¹Then everyone who calls

on the name of the Lord will be saved.^Ao

²²“Fellow Israelites, listen to these words: This Jesus of Nazareth was a man attested to you by God with miracles, wonders, and signs that God did among you through him, just as you yourselves know.^{p 23}Though he was delivered up according to God’s determined plan and foreknowledge, you used^B lawless people to nail him to a cross and kill him.^{q 24}God raised him up, ending the pains of death,^r because it was not possible for him to be held by death. ²⁵For David says of him:

I saw the Lord ever before me;

because he is at my right hand,

I will not be shaken.

²⁶Therefore my heart is glad

and my tongue rejoices.

Moreover, my flesh will rest in hope,

²⁷because you will not abandon me in Hades

or allow your holy one to see decay.^s

²⁸You have revealed the paths of life to me;

you will fill me with gladness

in your presence.^Ct

²⁹“Brothers and sisters, I can confidently speak to you about the patriarch David: He is both dead and buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.^{u 30}Since he was a prophet, he knew that God had sworn an oath to him to seat one of his descendants^D on his throne.^{v 31}Seeing what was to come, he spoke concerning the resurrection of the Messiah: He^E was not abandoned in Hades, and his flesh did not experience decay.^Fw

³²“God has raised^x this Jesus; we are all witnesses of this. ³³Therefore, since he has been exalted to the right hand of God^y and has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit,^a he has poured out^b what you both see and hear. ³⁴For it was not David who ascended into the heavens, but he himself says:

The Lord declared to my Lord,

‘Sit at my right hand

³⁵until I make your enemies your footstool.’^Ac

³⁶“Therefore let all the house of Israel know with certainty that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Messiah.”^d

CALL TO REPENTANCE

³⁷When they heard this, they were pierced to the heart and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what should we do?”^e

³⁸Peter replied, “Repent^f and be baptized,^g each of you, in the name^h of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.