Acts 2:12–21

¹²They were amazed and bewildered. They asked one another, “What does this mean?”

¹³But some people in the crowd made fun of the believers. “They’ve had too much wine!” they said.

Peter Speaks to the Crowd

¹⁴Then Peter stood up with the Eleven. In a loud voice he spoke to the crowd. “My Jewish friends,” he said, “let me explain this to you. All of you who live in Jerusalem, listen carefully to what I say. ¹⁵You think these people are drunk. But they aren’t. It’s only nine o’clock in the morning! ¹⁶No, here is what the prophet Joel meant. ¹⁷He said,

“ ‘In the last days, God says,

I will pour out my Holy Spirit on all people.

Your sons and daughters will prophesy.

Your young men will see visions.

Your old men will have dreams.

¹⁸In those days I will pour out my Spirit

even on those who serve me, both men and women.

When I do, they will prophesy.

¹⁹I will show wonders in the heavens above.

I will show miraculous signs on the earth below.

There will be blood and fire and clouds of smoke.

²⁰The sun will become dark.

The moon will turn red like blood.

This will happen before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord.

²¹Everyone who calls

on the name of the Lord will be saved.’