Acts 2:12–21

¹²Amazed and perplexed, they asked one another, “What does this mean?”

¹³Some, however, made fun of them and said, “They have had too much wine.”^h

Peter Addresses the Crowd

¹⁴Then Peter stood up with the Eleven, raised his voice and addressed the crowd: “Fellow Jews and all of you who live in Jerusalem, let me explain this to you; listen carefully to what I say. ¹⁵These people are not drunk, as you suppose. It’s only nine in the morning!^{i 16}No, this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:

¹⁷“ ‘In the last days, God says,

I will pour out my Spirit on all people.^j

Your sons and daughters will prophesy,^k

your young men will see visions,

your old men will dream dreams.

¹⁸Even on my servants, both men and women,

I will pour out my Spirit in those days,

and they will prophesy.^l

¹⁹I will show wonders in the heavens above

and signs on the earth below,^m

blood and fire and billows of smoke.

²⁰The sun will be turned to darkness

and the moon to bloodⁿ

before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord.

²¹And everyone who calls

on the name of the Lord^o will be saved.’^cp