Acts 2:15–24

¹⁵These people are not drunk, as you think; it is only nine o’clock in the morning! ¹⁶But Joel the prophet wrote about what is happening here today:

¹⁷‘God says: In the last days

I will pour out my Spirit on all kinds of people.

Your sons and daughters will prophesy.

Your young men will see visions,

and your old men will dream dreams.

¹⁸At that time I will pour out my Spirit

also on my male slaves and female slaves,

and they will prophesy.

¹⁹I will show miracles

in the sky and on the earth:

blood, fire, and thick smoke.

²⁰The sun will become dark,

the moon red as blood,

before the overwhelming and glorious day of the Lord will come.

²¹Then anyone who calls on the Lord will be saved.’

²²“People of Israel, listen to these words: Jesus from Nazareth was a very special man. God clearly showed this to you by the miracles, wonders, and signs he did through Jesus. You all know this, because it happened right here among you. ²³Jesus was given to you, and with the help of those who don’t know the law, you put him to death by nailing him to a cross. But this was God’s plan which he had made long ago; he knew all this would happen. ²⁴God raised Jesus from the dead and set him free from the pain of death, because death could not hold him.