Acts 2:15–24

¹⁵These people are not drunk, as you suppose; it is only nine o’clock in the morning. ¹⁶Instead, this is what the prophet Joel spoke about:

^17*‘This is what I will do in the last days, God says:

I will pour out my Spirit on everyone.

Your sons and daughters will proclaim my message;

your young men will see visions,

and your old men will have dreams.

^18*Yes, even on my servants, both men and women,

I will pour out my Spirit in those days,

and they will proclaim my message.

^19*I will perform miracles in the sky above

and wonders on the earth below.

There will be blood, fire, and thick smoke;

^20*the sun will be darkened,

and the moon will turn red as blood,

before the great and glorious Day of the Lord comes.

^21*And then, whoever calls out to the Lord for help will be saved.’

²²“Listen to these words, fellow-Israelites! Jesus of Nazareth was a man whose divine authority was clearly proven to you by all the miracles and wonders which God performed through him. You yourselves know this, for it happened here among you. ^23*In accordance with his own plan God had already decided that Jesus would be handed over to you; and you killed him by letting sinful men crucify him. ^24*But God raised him from death, setting him free from its power, because it was impossible that death should hold him prisoner.