Acts 2

Pentecost

1When the day of Pentecost had arrived, they were all together in one place. # 2:1 Lv 23:15; Ac 1:14; 20:16 2Suddenly a sound like that of a violent rushing wind # 2:2 1Kg 19:11; Jb 38:1; Ezk 1:4 came from heaven, and it filled the whole house where they were staying. # 2:2 Ac 4:31; 16:26 3They saw tongues like flames of fire that separated and rested on each one of them. 4Then they were all filled # 2:4 Ac 4:31; 13:52 with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in different tongues, # 2:4 languages, also in v. 11 as the Spirit enabled them. # 2:4 Mk 16:17; 1Co 12:10

5Now there were Jews staying in Jerusalem, devout people from every nation # 2:5 Mt 28:19; Rm 1:5; Gl 1:16 under heaven. 6When this sound occurred, a crowd came together and was confused because each one heard them speaking in his own language. 7They were astounded and amazed, saying, # 2:7 Other mss add to one another “Look, aren’t all these who are speaking Galileans? # 2:7 Ac 1:11; 2:12 8How is it that each of us can hear them in our own native language? 9Parthians, Medes, Elamites; those who live in Mesopotamia, in Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, # 2:9 Gn 14:9; 2Kg 17:6 10Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene; visitors from Rome (both Jews and converts), # 2:10 Mt 23:15; Ac 13:13; 15:38; 16:6,21; 18:23 11Cretans and Arabs — we hear them declaring the magnificent acts of God in our own tongues.” 12They were all astounded and perplexed, saying to one another, “What does this mean? ” 13But some sneered and said, “They’re drunk on new wine.” # 2:13 Ac 17:32; 1Co 14:23

Peter’s Sermon

14Peter stood up with the Eleven, raised his voice, and proclaimed to them, “Fellow Jews and all you residents of Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and pay attention to my words. 15For these people are not drunk, as you suppose, since it’s only nine in the morning. # 2:15 Lit it’s the third hour of the day 16On the contrary, 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 people;

then your sons and your daughters will prophesy,

your young men will see visions,

and your old men will dream dreams. # 2:17 Is 44:3; Jn 7:38; Ac 10:45; 21:9

18 I will even pour out my Spirit

on my servants in those days, both men and women

and they will prophesy. # 2:18 Ac 21:10; 1Co 12:10

19 I will display wonders in the heaven above

and signs on the earth below:

blood and fire and a cloud of smoke.

20 The sun will be turned to darkness

and the moon to blood # 2:20 Mt 24:29; 1Th 5:2

before the great and glorious day of the Lord # 2:20 Is 58:13; Ezk 13:5; Am 5:18; Ob 15; Zph 1:14; Zch 14:1; Mal 4:5 comes.

21 Then everyone who calls

on the name of the Lord will be saved. # 2:17–21 Jl 2:28–32,# 2:17–21 Jl 2:28–32; Ac 16:31; Rm 10:13

22“Fellow Israelites, listen to these words: This Jesus of Nazareth was a man attested to you by God with miracles, wonders, and signs that God did among you through him, just as you yourselves know. # 2:22 Jn 3:2; 4:48; Ac 10:38; Heb 2:4 23Though he was delivered up according to God’s determined plan and foreknowledge, you used # 2:23 Other mss read you have taken lawless people to nail him to a cross and kill him. # 2:23 Mt 26:24; Lk 22:22; 24:20; Ac 3:18; 4:28; 5:30 24God raised him up, ending the pains of death, # 2:24 Rm 8:11; 1Co 6:14; 2Co 4:14; Eph 1:20; Col 2:12; 1Th 1:10; Heb 13:20 because it was not possible for him to be held by death. 25For David says of him:

I saw the Lord ever before me;

because he is at my right hand,

I will not be shaken.

26 Therefore my heart is glad

and my tongue rejoices.

Moreover, my flesh will rest in hope,

27 because you will not abandon me in Hades

or allow your holy one to see decay. # 2:27 Mt 11:23; Lk 2:26; Ac 13:35; Heb 7:26

28 You have revealed the paths of life to me;

you will fill me with gladness

in your presence. # 2:25–28 Ps 16:8–11,# 2:25–28 Ps 16:8–11

29“Brothers and sisters, I can confidently speak to you about the patriarch David: He is both dead and buried, and his tomb is with us to this day. # 2:29 1Kg 2:10; Neh 3:16; Ac 7:8–9; 13:36 30Since he was a prophet, he knew that God had sworn an oath to him to seat one of his descendants # 2:30 Other mss add according to the flesh to raise up the Messiah on his throne. # 2:30 2Sm 23:2; Ps 132:11; Mt 22:43; Lk 1:32; Ac 1:8; Heb 11:32 31Seeing what was to come, he spoke concerning the resurrection of the Messiah: He # 2:31 Other mss read His soul was not abandoned in Hades, and his flesh did not experience decay. # 2:31 Ps 16:10,# 2:31 Ps 16:10; Ac 2:27

32“God has raised # 2:32 Lk 18:33; Ac 2:24 this Jesus; we are all witnesses of this. 33Therefore, since he has been exalted to the right hand of God # 2:33 Php 2:9; Heb 10:12 and has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit, # 2:33 Jn 7:39; 14:26; 16:7,13 he has poured out # 2:33 Ac 2:17; 10:45 what you both see and hear. 34For it was not David who ascended into the heavens, but he himself says:

The Lord declared to my Lord,

‘Sit at my right hand

35 until I make your enemies your footstool.’ # 2:34–35 Ps 110:1,# 2:34–35 Ps 110:1; Mt 5:35; 22:44; Mk 12:36; Lk 20:42–43; Jn 3:13; 1Co 15:25; Heb 1:13

36“Therefore let all the house of Israel know with certainty that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Messiah.” # 2:36 Mt 28:18; Lk 2:11; Rm 14:9; 2Co 4:5

Call to Repentance

37When they heard this, they were pierced to the heart and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what should we do? ” # 2:37 Lk 3:10; Ac 16:30

38Peter replied, “Repent # 2:38 Lk 24:47; Ac 3:19; 26:20 and be baptized, # 2:38 Ac 8:12; 22:16 each of you, in the name # 2:38 Ac 3:16; 15:14 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, # 2:39 Is 44:3; Ac 3:25; Eph 2:13 as many as the Lord our God will call.” 40With many other words he testified and strongly urged them, saying, “Be saved from this corrupt # 2:40 Or crooked, or twisted generation! ” # 2:40 Dt 32:5; Mt 17:17; Php 2:15 41So those who accepted his message were baptized, and that day about three thousand people were added to them.

A Generous and Growing Church

42They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching, # 2:42 Ac 5:28; 13:12; 17:19; 1Co 14:6 to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread, and to prayer. # 2:42 Ac 1:14; Heb 10:25

43Everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders and signs were being performed through the apostles. # 2:43 Mk 16:17,20; Ac 5:12 44Now all the believers were together and held all things in common. # 2:44 Mt 19:21; Ac 4:32 45They sold their possessions and property and distributed the proceeds to all, as any had need. 46Every day they devoted themselves to meeting together in the temple, and broke bread from house to house. They ate their food with joyful and sincere hearts, # 2:46 Lk 24:53; Ac 5:42; 20:7 47praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. Every day the Lord added to their number # 2:47 Other mss read to the church those who were being saved. # 2:47 Ac 5:14; 11:24; 16:5; Rm 14:18

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Gevurot Meyruach Hakodesh 2

1And when the day of Shavuos is fulfilled, they were all together in one place.#2:1 Lv 23:15,16 2And there was mitamuhl (suddenly) from Shomayim a sound like the rushing of a violent wind, and it filled the whole bais where they were sitting. 3And leshonot appeared to them, being divided as eish resting on each one of them, 4And all were filled with the Ruach Hakodesh, and they began to speak in leshonot acherot as the Ruach Hakodesh was giving the utterance to them.

5Now there were in Yerushalayim frum, charedi (orthodox) Yehudim from all the nations under Shomayim. 6And at this sound, the multitude assembled and was bewildered, because they were hearing, each one in his own native language, the Achim b'Moshiach speaking. 7And they were nispoyel (standing in awe) and marveled, saying, Hinei, are not all of these Galileans speaking? 8And how are we hearing, each in our own language in which we were born? 9We Parthians and Medes and Elamites; the ones living in Mesopotamia, Yehudah, Cappadocia, Pontus, Asia, 10Phrygia, Pamphylia, Mitzrayim (Egypt), and the regions of Libya around Cyrene; and the visiting Romans, 11Both Yehudim and Gerim (Proselytes), Cretan, and Arabic, we hear them speaking in other languages [than their own] of the Gevurot (mighty acts) of Hashem. 12And all had real hispailus (overwhelming awe) and were bewildered saying one to another, What can this mean? 13But others, mocking, were saying, Of sweet wine they have been filled!

14But Kefa, having stood with the Achad Asar, lifted up his voice and declared to them, Anashim Yehudim! And the ones inhabiting Yerushalayim, have da'as of all this and be goires (listen to) my devarim: 15For these ones are not, as you assume, in their schnaps, for it is only the third hour of the day (nine o'clock in the morning). 16But this is what has been spoken by Yoel HaNavi; 17And it shall be in the Acharit Hayamim, ne'um Hashem, ESHPOCH ES RUCHI AL KOL BASAR V'NIB'U BNEICHEM U'VENOTEICHEM ZIKNEICHEM CHALOMOT YACHALOMUN BACHUREICHEM CHEZYONOT YIRU#2:17 Yoel 3:1 (I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh: and your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams and your bochrim will see visions).#2:17 Ac 2:28f; Num 11:25; Isa 44:3; Ezek 39:29 18And upon My avadim and upon My shfakhot in BAYYAMIM HAHEMMAH ESHPOCH ES RUCHI (in those days I will pour out my Ruach [Hakodesh]) and they will speak devarim hanevu'ah: 19And I will give MOFTIM BASHOMAYIM and signs on ha'aretz below, DAHM VA'EISH V'TIMROT ASHAM (blood and fire and billows of smoke). 20The shemesh (sun) will be transformed into choshech (darkness) and the moon into blood before the great and dreadful YOM HASHEM. 21And it will be that everyone whoever calls upon the Name of Adonoi will be saved.#2:21 Gn 4:26; 26:25; Ps 105:1; Yoel 3:1-5

22Anshei Yisroel, listen to these devarim: Yehoshua of Natzeret, a man having been attested by Hashem to you by gevurot and moftim which Hashem did through him in your midst, just as you yourselves have da'as, 23This one, delivered up by the determined cheshbon (plan) and yedi'ah mukdemet (foreknowledge) of Hashem, and by the hand of lawless Bnei Adam you made him talui al HaEtz#2:23 Dt 21:23 (being hanged on the Tree) and put him to death.#2:23 Isa 53:10 24But in fact Hashem made Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach to stand up alive again, having destroyed the Chevlei HaMavet, because it was impossible for Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach to be held by Deathʼs ko'ach. 25For Dovid Hamelech says of him, SHIVVITI HASHEM L'NEGDI TAMID, KI MIMINI BAL EMMOT (I set Adonoi before me always, because he is at my right hand I will not be shaken.)#2:25 Ps 16:8-11 26Therefore my heart was cheered up and my tongue exulted and in addition also my flesh, my body, will live in secure [hope].#2:26 Gn 47:18; Ps 16:9-10; Job 19:25-27; Isa 53:11 27Because you will not abandon the nefesh (soul) of me to destruction nor will you give your Chasid#2:27 T.N. i.e., Moshiach the ultimate Chasid to see corruption. 28TODIEINI ORACH CHAYYIM SOVA SEMACHOT ES PANECHA (You made known to me the path of Chayyim, you will fill me with simcha in your presence).#2:25-28 Ps 16:8-11

29Anashim Achim, it is permitted to speak with bitachon (confidence) to you benoigeia (regarding) Dovid Avinu, that also he died and was buried and his kever (tomb) is with us until this day.#2:29 1Kgs 2:10; Neh 3:16 30Therefore, being a Navi and having da'as that with a shevu'ah (an oath) HASHEM swore to him that from his loins his zera would sit upon his KISSE…#2:30 Ps 132:11; 89:3-4; 2Sm 7:12-13 31Foreseeing this, Dovid Hamelech spoke about the Techiyas HaMoshiach: neither was he “abandoned to destruction nor did his BASAR see corruption.”#2:31 Gn 47:18; Ps 16:9-10; Job 19:25-27; Isa 53:11 32This Yehoshua in fact Hashem made to stand up alive again, of which we all are Edim.#2:32 here the original language means martyr witnesses unto mavet al Kiddush ha-Shem 33Having been exalted to the right hand of Hashem and having received the havtachah of the Ruach Hakodesh from [Elohim] HaAv, Moshiach poured out this which you also see and hear. 34For Dovid Hamelech did not ascend into Shomayim, but he says, Hashem says to Adoni, SHEV LIMINI (sit down at my right hand), 35Until I make OYVECHA (your enemies) your footstool.#2:34-35 Ps 110:1 36Therefore, assuredly let Klal Yisroel have da'as that this Yehoshua, whom you made talui al HaEtz#2:36 Dt 21:23 (being hanged on the Tree), this one Hashem has made both Adoneinu and Rabbeinu, Melech HaMoshiach.

37And when they heard this, they were pierced with conviction in their levavot, and they said to Kefa and to the other of Moshiachʼs Shlichim, Achim, what shall we do? 38And Kefa said to them, Make teshuva (repentance, turning from chet to Hashem) and each of you submit to a tevilah of teshuva in the Shem of Yehoshua HaMoshiach, for the selichat avon of you, and you will receive the matanah of the Ruach Hakodesh. 39For to you is the havtachah and to your yeladim and to all the ones at a distance, as many as may YIKRA B'SHEM ADONOI ELOHEINU.#2:39 Yoel 3:5; Isa 44:3; 65:23; 57:19 40And with many other devarim, Kefa gave solemn edut (testimony) and was warning them, Receive yeshu'at Eloheinu from this DOR IKKESH U'FETALTOL (warped and crooked generation)!#2:40 Dt 32:5 41Those, who were mekabel Besuras HaGeulah and welcomed his dvar, submitted to a tevilah of teshuva and there were added in that day nefashot (souls) beerech (approximately, dacht zich) shloshet alafim (three thousand).

42And they were keseder (constantly) shtark (steadfastly) devoting themselves to the Moshiachʼs pnimiyus (innermost) Torah as handed on by Moshiachʼs Shlichim (emmisaries of the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach) and to being mishtatef (involved, joining) in the Messianic Chavurah (fellowship, company, group),#2:42 especially one eating the paschal lamb together and to the tishen (shared meals) with Betzi'at HaLechem (Breaking Bread) at the Seudos Moshiach and to the Tefillos. 43All were filled with yirat Shomayim and were nispoyel (in awe), and many moftim and otot through Moshiachʼs Shlichim were taking place. 44And all the [Jewish] Ma'aminim HaMeshichiyim were together and they were having all things in common. 45And they were selling their properties and possessions and were distributing tzedakah to everyone as someone had need.#2:45 Dt 28:1-14 46And yom yom, devoting themselves with one mind in the courts of the Beis Hamikdash, and from bais to bais, offering the Betzi'at HaLechem, they were together at tish with single-hearted exultation and hitlahavut. 47Praising Hashem, and having favor with all the people while G-d was adding to their number yom yom those receiving yeshu'at Eloheinu.

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