ACT 2
2
The Day of Pentecost
1 When the day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all gathered together in unity in the same location.
2 Suddenly and without warning a sound came from heaven like a violent, rushing, mighty wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting and assembled.
3 Then there appeared to them what looked like tongues of fire, distributing themselves among the group, and one individual tongue came to rest upon each one of them.
4 Every person present was filled completely with the Holy Spirit, and they began to speak words in other tongues or languages, just as the Spirit was granting them the supernatural ability to speak forth.
5 Now at that time there were Jewish people residing in Jerusalem, pious men who had come from every nation that exists under heaven.
6 When this supernatural sound occurred, the crowd assembled, and they were thrown into confusion because each individual person was hearing them speaking in his own native language and dialect.
7 They were continuously amazed and filled with astonishment, saying, "Are not all these individuals who are speaking Galileans by origin?
8 How then do we hear them, each one of us, in our own particular language to which we were born and in which we were raised?
9 Parthians and Medes and Elamites and those residing in Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,
10 Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the regions and districts of Libya towards Cyrene, and visitors and sojourners who have come from Rome,
11 including both ethnic Jews and proselytes who have converted to Judaism, Cretans and Arabs—we hear them declaring in our own native tongues or languages the magnificent works of God."
12 All who witnessed this were astonished and thoroughly perplexed, saying to one another in their confusion, "What could this possibly mean?"
13 However, others who were present were saying with derision, "They have been filled with sweet new wine."
The First Apostolic Preaching
14 But Peter, standing up together with the eleven apostles, raised his voice and spoke out clearly and boldly to them: "Men of Judea, and all you who are residing in Jerusalem, let this matter be made known to you, and pay careful attention to my words.
15 For these men are certainly not drunk, just as you are supposing in your minds, for the hour is only the third hour of the day, which is nine o'clock in the morning.
16 Rather, this extraordinary event is precisely what was spoken about through the prophet Joel:
17 'And it will come to pass in the last days,' says God,
'that I will pour out from My Spirit upon all humanity,
and your sons and your daughters will prophesy and speak forth divine revelation,
and your young men will see supernatural visions,
and your old men will dream prophetic dreams.
18 Indeed, even upon My male servants and upon My female servants
I will pour out from My Spirit in those days,
and they will prophesy and declare My word.
19 I will display wonders in the heaven above
and miraculous signs on the earth below,
including blood and fire and a dense cloud of billowing smoke.
20 The sun will be changed to darkness
and the moon will turn to blood,
before the coming of the great
and glorious day of the Lord.
21 And it will be that every person who calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved and delivered.'*
22 "Men of Israel, listen carefully to these words: Jesus the Nazarene, a Man who was authenticated by God to you through miracles and wonders and signs, which God performed and accomplished through Him in your very midst, just as you yourselves have full knowledge—
23 this particular One, delivered over according to the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you murdered by crucifying Him through the agency of lawless and wicked men,
24 but God raised Him up from death, having loosened the agonies of death, since it was not possible for Him to be held or detained by it.
25 For David speaks with reference to Him:
'I kept the Lord continually in view before me,
for He is at my right hand so that I may not be shaken;
26 Because of this reality, my heart was made glad and my tongue rejoiced greatly;
and moreover also my flesh will dwell in hope and confident expectation.
27 For You will not abandon my soul in Hades,
nor will You allow Your Holy One to experience decay.
28 You have made known to me the ways of life;
You will fill me with joy in Your presence.'*
29 "Brothers and fellow men, it is entirely realistic and permissible to speak with confidence to you concerning the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his burial place is with us to this very day.
30 Therefore, being a prophet and having knowledge that God had sworn to him with a solemn oath to seat one of his descendants on his throne,
31 and having foreseen this in advance through prophetic vision, he spoke and prophesied concerning the resurrection of the Christ, declaring that He was neither abandoned in Hades, nor did His flesh experience decay.
32 This Jesus—God raised Him up from the dead, to which fact we all are witnesses.
33 Therefore, having been lifted up to the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He has dispensed this gift which you are both seeing with your eyes and hearing with your ears at this very moment.
34 For David himself did not ascend or go up into heaven, but he himself declares:
'The Lord said to my Lord,
"Sit at My right hand,
35 until I make and establish Your enemies as a footstool for Your feet."'*
36 Therefore, let all the house and nation of Israel know with absolute certainty that God has made and appointed Him both Lord and Christ—this same Jesus, whom you crucified."
37 Now when they heard these words and this message, they were pierced to the heart with deep conviction, and they said to Peter and to the rest of the apostles, "Brothers and fellow men, how should we respond?"
38 Then Peter declared and proclaimed to them with authority, "Repent and turn from your sins, and be baptised, each and every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
39 For the promise is extended and belongs to you and to your children and to all those who are far off, as many as the Lord our God will summon to Himself."
40 With many additional words he testified and was exhorting them earnestly, saying, "Be saved and delivered from this perverse and corrupt generation."
41 So those who received his message were baptised, and on that particular day there were added to their number approximately three thousand souls.
The Fellowship of the Believers
42 They were continuously devoting themselves to the teaching and instruction of the apostles and to fellowship with one another, to the breaking of bread and sharing of meals, and to prayers.
43 A sense of awe was coming upon every soul, and many wonders and miraculous signs were being performed by the apostles.
44 All those who believed were together in the same place, and were possessing everything in common or in shared ownership.
45 They were selling their possessions, and were distributing these things and resources to all, according to whatever need anyone had.
46 Every single day, steadfastly continuing with one mind or united purpose in the outer courts of the temple and breaking bread and sharing meals from house to house in various homes, they were sharing their food with joy and sincerity of heart,
47 praising and worshipping God and having favour and goodwill with all the people. And the Lord was adding every day those who were being saved to their number and company.
Notes
17–21 Quoted from Joel 2:28–32
25–28 Quoted from Ps. 16:8–11
34–35 Quoted from Ps. 110:1
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ACT 2
2
The Day of Pentecost
1 When the day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all gathered together in unity in the same location.
2 Suddenly and without warning a sound came from heaven like a violent, rushing, mighty wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting and assembled.
3 Then there appeared to them what looked like tongues of fire, distributing themselves among the group, and one individual tongue came to rest upon each one of them.
4 Every person present was filled completely with the Holy Spirit, and they began to speak words in other tongues or languages, just as the Spirit was granting them the supernatural ability to speak forth.
5 Now at that time there were Jewish people residing in Jerusalem, pious men who had come from every nation that exists under heaven.
6 When this supernatural sound occurred, the crowd assembled, and they were thrown into confusion because each individual person was hearing them speaking in his own native language and dialect.
7 They were continuously amazed and filled with astonishment, saying, "Are not all these individuals who are speaking Galileans by origin?
8 How then do we hear them, each one of us, in our own particular language to which we were born and in which we were raised?
9 Parthians and Medes and Elamites and those residing in Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,
10 Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the regions and districts of Libya towards Cyrene, and visitors and sojourners who have come from Rome,
11 including both ethnic Jews and proselytes who have converted to Judaism, Cretans and Arabs—we hear them declaring in our own native tongues or languages the magnificent works of God."
12 All who witnessed this were astonished and thoroughly perplexed, saying to one another in their confusion, "What could this possibly mean?"
13 However, others who were present were saying with derision, "They have been filled with sweet new wine."
The First Apostolic Preaching
14 But Peter, standing up together with the eleven apostles, raised his voice and spoke out clearly and boldly to them: "Men of Judea, and all you who are residing in Jerusalem, let this matter be made known to you, and pay careful attention to my words.
15 For these men are certainly not drunk, just as you are supposing in your minds, for the hour is only the third hour of the day, which is nine o'clock in the morning.
16 Rather, this extraordinary event is precisely what was spoken about through the prophet Joel:
17 'And it will come to pass in the last days,' says God,
'that I will pour out from My Spirit upon all humanity,
and your sons and your daughters will prophesy and speak forth divine revelation,
and your young men will see supernatural visions,
and your old men will dream prophetic dreams.
18 Indeed, even upon My male servants and upon My female servants
I will pour out from My Spirit in those days,
and they will prophesy and declare My word.
19 I will display wonders in the heaven above
and miraculous signs on the earth below,
including blood and fire and a dense cloud of billowing smoke.
20 The sun will be changed to darkness
and the moon will turn to blood,
before the coming of the great
and glorious day of the Lord.
21 And it will be that every person who calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved and delivered.'*
22 "Men of Israel, listen carefully to these words: Jesus the Nazarene, a Man who was authenticated by God to you through miracles and wonders and signs, which God performed and accomplished through Him in your very midst, just as you yourselves have full knowledge—
23 this particular One, delivered over according to the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you murdered by crucifying Him through the agency of lawless and wicked men,
24 but God raised Him up from death, having loosened the agonies of death, since it was not possible for Him to be held or detained by it.
25 For David speaks with reference to Him:
'I kept the Lord continually in view before me,
for He is at my right hand so that I may not be shaken;
26 Because of this reality, my heart was made glad and my tongue rejoiced greatly;
and moreover also my flesh will dwell in hope and confident expectation.
27 For You will not abandon my soul in Hades,
nor will You allow Your Holy One to experience decay.
28 You have made known to me the ways of life;
You will fill me with joy in Your presence.'*
29 "Brothers and fellow men, it is entirely realistic and permissible to speak with confidence to you concerning the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his burial place is with us to this very day.
30 Therefore, being a prophet and having knowledge that God had sworn to him with a solemn oath to seat one of his descendants on his throne,
31 and having foreseen this in advance through prophetic vision, he spoke and prophesied concerning the resurrection of the Christ, declaring that He was neither abandoned in Hades, nor did His flesh experience decay.
32 This Jesus—God raised Him up from the dead, to which fact we all are witnesses.
33 Therefore, having been lifted up to the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He has dispensed this gift which you are both seeing with your eyes and hearing with your ears at this very moment.
34 For David himself did not ascend or go up into heaven, but he himself declares:
'The Lord said to my Lord,
"Sit at My right hand,
35 until I make and establish Your enemies as a footstool for Your feet."'*
36 Therefore, let all the house and nation of Israel know with absolute certainty that God has made and appointed Him both Lord and Christ—this same Jesus, whom you crucified."
37 Now when they heard these words and this message, they were pierced to the heart with deep conviction, and they said to Peter and to the rest of the apostles, "Brothers and fellow men, how should we respond?"
38 Then Peter declared and proclaimed to them with authority, "Repent and turn from your sins, and be baptised, each and every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
39 For the promise is extended and belongs to you and to your children and to all those who are far off, as many as the Lord our God will summon to Himself."
40 With many additional words he testified and was exhorting them earnestly, saying, "Be saved and delivered from this perverse and corrupt generation."
41 So those who received his message were baptised, and on that particular day there were added to their number approximately three thousand souls.
The Fellowship of the Believers
42 They were continuously devoting themselves to the teaching and instruction of the apostles and to fellowship with one another, to the breaking of bread and sharing of meals, and to prayers.
43 A sense of awe was coming upon every soul, and many wonders and miraculous signs were being performed by the apostles.
44 All those who believed were together in the same place, and were possessing everything in common or in shared ownership.
45 They were selling their possessions, and were distributing these things and resources to all, according to whatever need anyone had.
46 Every single day, steadfastly continuing with one mind or united purpose in the outer courts of the temple and breaking bread and sharing meals from house to house in various homes, they were sharing their food with joy and sincerity of heart,
47 praising and worshipping God and having favour and goodwill with all the people. And the Lord was adding every day those who were being saved to their number and company.
Notes
17–21 Quoted from Joel 2:28–32
25–28 Quoted from Ps. 16:8–11
34–35 Quoted from Ps. 110:1
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