Acts 2:17–38

¹⁷‘And in the last days it shall be, God declares,

that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh,

and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,

and your young men shall see visions,

and your old men shall dream dreams;

¹⁸yea, and on my menservants and my maidservants in those days

I will pour out my Spirit; and they shall prophesy.

¹⁹And I will show wonders in the heaven above

and signs on the earth beneath,

blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke;

²⁰the sun shall be turned into darkness

and the moon into blood,

before the day of the Lord comes,

the great and manifest day.

²¹And it shall be that whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.’

²²“Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested to you by God with mighty works and wonders and signs which God did through him in your midst, as you yourselves know— ²³this Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men. ²⁴But God raised him up, having loosed the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it.

²⁵For David says concerning him,

‘I saw the Lord always before me,

for he is at my right hand that I may not be shaken;

²⁶therefore my heart was glad, and my tongue rejoiced;

moreover my flesh will dwell in hope.

²⁷For thou wilt not abandon my soul to Hades,

nor let thy Holy One see corruption.

²⁸Thou hast made known to me the ways of life;

thou wilt make me full of gladness with thy presence.’

²⁹“Brethren, I may say to you confidently of the patriarch David that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day. ³⁰Being therefore a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that he would set one of his descendants upon his throne, ³¹he foresaw and spoke of the resurrection of the Christ, that he was not abandoned to Hades, nor did his flesh see corruption. ³²This Jesus God raised up, and of that we all are witnesses. ³³Being therefore exalted at the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this which you see and hear. ³⁴For David did not ascend into the heavens; but he himself says,

‘The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand,

³⁵till I make thy enemies a stool for thy feet.’

³⁶Let all the house of Israel therefore know assuredly that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.”

³⁷Now when they heard this they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brethren, what shall we do?” ³⁸And Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.