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Acts 2

The Holy Spirit Comes at Pentecost

¹ When the day of Pen­te­cost came, they were all together in one place. ² Sud­denly a sound like the blow­ing of a vio­lent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sit­ting. ³ They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that sep­a­rated and came to rest on each of them. ⁴ All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues¹ as the Spirit enabled them.

⁵ Now there were stay­ing in Jerusalem God-​fearing Jews from every nation under heaven. ⁶ When they heard this sound, a crowd came together in bewil­der­ment, because each one heard them speak­ing in his own lan­guage. ⁷ Utterly amazed, they asked: “Are not all these men who are speak­ing Galileans? ⁸ Then how is it that each of us hears them in his own native lan­guage? ⁹ Parthi­ans, Medes and Elamites; res­i­dents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cap­pado­cia, Pon­tus and Asia, ¹⁰ Phry­gia and Pam­phylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene; vis­i­tors from Rome ¹¹ (both Jews and con­verts to Judaism); Cre­tans and Arabs–we hear them declar­ing the won­ders of God in our own tongues!” ¹² Amazed and per­plexed, they asked one another, “What does this mean?”

¹³ Some, how­ever, made fun of them and said, “They have had too much wine².”

Peter Addresses the Crowd

¹⁴ Then Peter stood up with the Eleven, raised his voice and addressed the crowd: “Fel­low Jews and all of you who live in Jerusalem, let me explain this to you; lis­ten care­fully to what I say. ¹⁵ These men are not drunk, as you sup­pose. It’s only nine in the morn­ing! 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. Your sons and daugh­ters will proph­esy,
your young men will see visions,
your old men will dream dreams.

¹⁸ Even on my ser­vants, both men and women,
I will pour out my Spirit in those days,
and they will prophesy.

¹⁹ I will show won­ders in the heaven above
and signs on the earth below,
blood and fire and bil­lows of smoke.

²⁰ The sun will be turned to dark­ness
and the moon to blood
before the com­ing of the great and glo­ri­ous day of the Lord.

²¹ And every­one who calls
on the name of the Lord will be saved³.’

²² “Men of Israel, lis­ten to this: Jesus of Nazareth was a man accred­ited by God to you by mir­a­cles, won­ders and signs, which God did among you through him, as you your­selves know. ²³ This man was handed over to you by God’s set pur­pose and fore­knowl­edge; and you, with the help of wicked men⁴, put him to death by nail­ing him to the cross. ²⁴ But God raised him from the dead, free­ing him from the agony of death, because it was impos­si­ble for death to keep its hold on him. ²⁵ David said about him:

” ‘I saw the Lord always before me. Because he is at my right hand,
I will not be shaken.

²⁶ There­fore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices;
my body also will live in hope,

²⁷ because you will not aban­don me to the grave,
nor will you let your Holy One see decay.

²⁸ You have made known to me the paths of life;
you will fill me with joy in your pres­ence⁵.’

²⁹ “Broth­ers, I can tell you con­fi­dently that the patri­arch David died and was buried, and his tomb is here to this day. ³⁰ But he was a prophet and knew that God had promised him on oath that he would place one of his descen­dants on his throne. ³¹ See­ing what was ahead, he spoke of the res­ur­rec­tion of the Christ⁶, that he was not aban­doned to the grave, nor did his body see decay. ³² God has raised this Jesus to life, and we are all wit­nesses of the fact. ³³ Exalted to the right hand of God, he has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit and has poured out what you now see and hear. ³⁴ For David did not ascend to heaven, and yet he said,

” ‘The Lord said to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand ³⁵ until I make your ene­mies
a foot­stool for your feet⁷.” ‘

³⁶ “There­fore let all Israel be assured of this: God has made this Jesus, whom you cru­ci­fied, both Lord and Christ.”

³⁷ When the peo­ple heard this, they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and the other apos­tles, “Broth­ers, what shall we do?”

³⁸ Peter replied, “Repent and be bap­tized, 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 The promise is for you and your chil­dren and for all who are far off–for all whom the Lord our God will call.”

⁴⁰ With many other words he warned them; and he pleaded with them, “Save your­selves from this cor­rupt gen­er­a­tion.” ⁴¹ Those who accepted his mes­sage were bap­tized, and about three thou­sand were added to their num­ber that day.

The Fel­low­ship of the Believers

⁴² They devoted them­selves to the apos­tles’ teach­ing and to the fel­low­ship, to the break­ing of bread and to prayer. ⁴³ Every­one was filled with awe, and many won­ders and mirac­u­lous signs were done by the apos­tles.
⁴⁴ All the believ­ers were together and had every­thing in com­mon. ⁴⁵ Sell­ing their pos­ses­sions and goods, they gave to any­one as he had need. ⁴⁶ Every day they con­tin­ued to meet together in the tem­ple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sin­cere hearts, ⁴⁷ prais­ing God and enjoy­ing the favor of all the peo­ple. And the Lord added to their num­ber daily those who were being saved.

Acts 2:1–47