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Peter's Sermon and Three Thousand Converted

Acts 2:14-41

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14 But Peter, standing with the eleven, raised his voice and addressed them: "Men Jews and all you who dwell in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and give ear to my words." 15 For they are not drunk, as you suppose, for it is the third hour of the day. 16 but this is what was spoken through the prophet Joel 17 And it will be in the last days, says God. I will pour out from my Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters will prophesy, and your young men will see visions, and your elders will dream dreams. 18 And indeed on my male slaves and on my female slaves in those days I will pour out from my Spirit, and they will prophesy. 19 And I will give wonders in the heavens above and signs on the earth below: blood and fire and vapor of smoke. 20 The sun will be turned into darkness and the moon into blood, before the day of the Lord, the great and manifest one, comes. 21 And it will be that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. 22 Men of Israel, hear these words. Jesus the Nazarene, a man approved from God to you by powers and wonders and signs which God did through him in your midst, as you yourselves know. 23 This one, by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, having been handed over, through the hand of lawless men, you crucified and killed. 24 whom God raised up, having loosed the birth pains of death, since it was not possible for him to be held by it. 25 For David says to him: "I saw the Lord before me always, because he is at my right hand, so that I might not be shaken." 26 For this reason my heart was glad and my tongue exulted; moreover, my flesh will dwell in hope. 27 because you will not abandon my soul to Hades, nor will you let your holy one see corruption. 28 You made known to me ways of life; you will fill me with gladness with your face. 29 Brothers, it is permitted to speak openly to you about the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is among us to this day. 30 Being therefore a prophet, and knowing that God swore with an oath to him that one from the fruit of his loins would sit on his throne, 31 Foreseeing this, he spoke about the resurrection of Christ, that he was neither abandoned to Hades nor did his flesh see corruption. 32 This Jesus God raised up, and we are all witnesses of it. 33 Therefore, having been exalted at the right hand of God, and having received the promise of the Holy Spirit from the Father, he poured out this which you both see and hear. 34 For David did not ascend into the heavens, but he himself says: "The Lord said to my Lord, 'Sit at my right hand,'" 35 until I put your enemies as a footstool for your feet. 36 Therefore let all the house of Israel surely know that God made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified. 37 And when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and they said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "What shall we do, men brothers?" 38 But 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." 39 For the promise is for you and for your children and for all those far off, whomever the Lord our God may call. 40 And with many other words he earnestly testified and exhorted them, saying, "Be saved from this crooked generation." 41 Those who had accepted his word were baptized, and about three thousand souls were added that day.