Acts 2:1–42

The Day of Pentecost

¹When ^athe day of Pentecost ¹had come, they were all together in one place.

²And suddenly there came from heaven a noise like a violent rushing wind, and it filled ^athe whole house where they were sitting.

³And there appeared to them tongues as of fire ¹distributing themselves, and ²they ³rested on each one of them.

⁴And they were all ^afilled with the Holy Spirit and began to ^bspeak with other ¹tongues, as the Spirit was giving them ²utterance.

⁵Now there were Jews living in Jerusalem, ^adevout men from every nation under heaven.

⁶And when ^athis sound occurred, the crowd came together, and were bewildered because each one of them was hearing them speak in his own ¹language.

^7aThey were amazed and astonished, saying, “¹Why, are not all these who are speaking ^bGalileans?

⁸“And how is it that we each hear them in our own ¹language ²to which we were born?

⁹“Parthians and Medes and Elamites, and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and ^aCappadocia, ^bPontus and ^1cAsia,

^10aPhrygia and ^bPamphylia, Egypt and the districts of Libya around ^cCyrene, and ^1dvisitors from Rome, both Jews and ^2eproselytes,

¹¹Cretans and Arabs—we hear them in our own tongues speaking of the mighty deeds of God.”

¹²And ^athey all continued in amazement and great perplexity, saying to one another, “What does this mean?”

¹³But others were mocking and saying, “^aThey are full of ¹sweet wine.”

Peter’s Sermon

¹⁴But Peter, ¹taking his stand with ^athe eleven, raised his voice and declared to them: “Men of Judea and all you who live in Jerusalem, let this be known to you and give heed to my words.

¹⁵“For these men are not drunk, as you suppose, ^afor it is only the ¹third hour of the day;

¹⁶but this is what was spoken of through the prophet Joel:

¹⁷‘^aAnd it shall be in the last days,’ God says,

‘That I will pour forth of My Spirit on all ¹mankind;

And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,

And your young men shall see visions,

And your old men shall dream dreams;

¹⁸Even on My bondslaves, both men and women,

I will in those days pour forth of My Spirit

And they shall prophesy.

¹⁹‘And I will grant wonders in the sky above

And signs on the earth below,

Blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke.

²⁰‘The sun will be turned into darkness

And the moon into blood,

Before the great and glorious day of the Lord shall come.

²¹‘And it shall be that ^aeveryone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.’

²²“Men of Israel, listen to these words: ^aJesus the Nazarene, ^ba man ¹attested to you by God with ²miracles and ^cwonders and ³signs which God performed through Him in your midst, just as you yourselves know—

²³this Man, delivered over by the ^apredetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, ^byou nailed to a cross by the hands of ¹godless men and put Him to death.

²⁴“¹But ^aGod raised Him up again, putting an end to the ²agony of death, since it ^bwas impossible for Him to be held ³in its power.

²⁵“For David says of Him,

‘^aI saw the Lord always in my presence;

For He is at my right hand, so that I will not be shaken.

²⁶‘Therefore my heart was glad and my tongue exulted;

Moreover my flesh also will live in hope;

²⁷Because You will not abandon my soul to ^aHades,

^bNor ¹allow Your ²Holy One to ³undergo decay.

²⁸‘You have made known to me the ways of life;

You will make me full of gladness with Your presence.’

²⁹“¹Brethren, I may confidently say to you regarding the ^apatriarch David that he both ^bdied and ^cwas buried, and ^dhis tomb is ²with us to this day.

³⁰“And so, because he was ^aa prophet and knew that ^bGod had sworn to him with an oath to seat one ¹of his descendants on his throne,

³¹he looked ahead and spoke of the resurrection of ¹the Christ, that ^aHe was neither abandoned to Hades, nor did His flesh ²suffer decay.

³²“This Jesus ^aGod raised up again, to which we are all ^bwitnesses.

³³“Therefore having been exalted ^1ato the right hand of God, and ^bhaving received from the Father ^cthe promise of the Holy Spirit, He has ^dpoured forth this which you both see and hear.

³⁴“For it was not David who ascended into ¹heaven, but he himself says:

‘^aThe Lord said to my ²Lord,

“Sit at My right hand,

³⁵Until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.” ’

³⁶“Therefore let all the ^ahouse of Israel know for certain that God has made Him both ^bLord and ¹Christ—this Jesus ^cwhom you crucified.”

The Ingathering

³⁷Now when they heard this, they were ¹pierced to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “²Brethren, ^3awhat shall we do?”

³⁸Peter said to them, “^aRepent, and each of you be ^bbaptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

³⁹“For ^athe promise is for you and your children and for all who are ^bfar off, as many as the Lord our God will call to Himself.”

⁴⁰And with many other words he solemnly ^atestified and kept on exhorting them, saying, “¹Be saved from this ^bperverse generation!”

⁴¹So then, those who had received his word were baptized; and that day there were added about three thousand ^1asouls.

⁴²They were ^acontinually devoting themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to ^bthe breaking of bread and ¹to prayer.