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Acts 2:14-41 — Peter Addresses the Crowd

Acts.2.14-41

¹⁴But Peter, standing with the eleven, raised his voice and declared to them: "Men of Judea and all you who live in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen carefully to my words. ¹⁵For these men are not drunk, as you suppose, for it is only the third hour of the day . ¹⁶But this is what was spoken through the prophet Joel: ¹⁷'And it will be in the last days, says God, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters will prophesy, and your young men will see visions, and your old men will dream dreams. ¹⁸Even on my male servants and on my female servants in those days I will pour out my Spirit, and they will prophesy. ¹⁹And I will show wonders in the heaven above and signs on the earth below, blood, and fire, and a cloud of smoke. ²⁰The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood, before the great and glorious day of the Lord comes. ²¹And it will be that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will 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 that God did through him in your midst, just as you yourselves know— ²³this man, delivered up by the determined plan and foreknowledge of God, you nailed to a cross by the hands of lawless men and put him to death. ²⁴But God raised him up, having released him from 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, because he is at my right hand, so that I will not be shaken. ²⁶Therefore my heart was glad and my tongue rejoiced; moreover, my flesh also will dwell in hope, ²⁷because you will not abandon my soul to Hades, nor will you allow your Holy One to see decay. ²⁸You have made known to me the paths of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence.' ²⁹"Brothers, I can speak to you with confidence about the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day. ³⁰Therefore, being a prophet and knowing that God had sworn to him with an oath to seat one of his descendants on his throne , ³¹foreseeing this, he spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that he was not abandoned to Hades, nor did his flesh see decay. ³²This Jesus God raised up, of which we all are witnesses. ³³Therefore, having been exalted to the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this that you both 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, ³⁵until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet."' ³⁶Therefore let all the house of Israel know for certain 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 they said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?” ³⁸And Peter said to them , "Repent, and let each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. ³⁹For the promise is for you and for your children and for all who are far off, as many as the Lord our God will call to himself." ⁴⁰And with many other words he testified and exhorted them, saying, “Be saved from this crooked generation.” ⁴¹So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added on that day about three thousand souls.

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4/11/2026

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