Acts 2:15–24

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

²²“Fellow Israelites, listen to this: Jesus of Nazareth^q was a man accredited by God to you by miracles, wonders and signs,^r which God did among you through him,^s as you yourselves know. ²³This man was handed over to you by God’s deliberate plan and foreknowledge;^t and you, with the help of wicked men,^d put him to death by nailing him to the cross.^{u 24}But God raised him from the dead,^v freeing him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for death to keep its hold on him.^w