2:1 Now ¹  when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. 2:2 Suddenly ²  a sound ³  like a violent wind blowing ⁴  came from heaven ⁵  and filled the entire house where they were sitting. 2:3 And tongues spreading out like a fire ⁶  appeared to them and came to rest on each one of them. 2:4 All ⁷  of them were filled with the Holy Spirit, and they began to speak in other languages ⁸  as the Spirit enabled them. ⁹ 

2:5 Now there were devout Jews ¹⁰  from every nation under heaven residing in Jerusalem. ¹¹  2:6 When this sound ¹²  occurred, a crowd gathered and was in confusion, ¹³  because each one heard them speaking in his own language. 2:7 Completely baffled, they said, ¹⁴  “Aren’t ¹⁵  all these who are speaking Galileans? 2:8 And how is it that each one of us hears them ¹⁶  in our own native language? ¹⁷  2:9 Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and the province of Asia, ¹⁸  2:10 Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene, ¹⁹  and visitors from Rome, ²⁰  2:11 both Jews and proselytes, ²¹  Cretans and Arabs – we hear them speaking in our own languages about the great deeds God has done!” ²²  2:12 All were astounded and greatly confused, saying to one another, “What does this mean?” 2:13 But others jeered at the speakers, ²³  saying, “They are drunk on new wine!” ²⁴ 

2:14 But Peter stood up ²⁵  with the eleven, raised his voice, and addressed them: “You men of Judea ²⁶  and all you who live in Jerusalem, ²⁷  know this ²⁸  and listen carefully to what I say. 2:15 In spite of what you think, these men are not drunk, ²⁹  for it is only nine o’clock in the morning. ³⁰  2:16 But this is what was spoken about through the prophet Joel: ³¹ 

2:17 ‘And in the last days ³²  it will be,’ God says,

‘that I will pour out my Spirit on all people, ³³ 

and your sons and your daughters will prophesy,

and your young men will see visions,

and your old men will dream dreams.

2:18 Even on my servants, ³⁴  both men and women,

I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy. ³⁵ 

2:19 And I will perform wonders in the sky ³⁶  above

and miraculous signs ³⁷  on the earth below,

blood and fire and clouds of smoke.

2:20 The sun will be changed to darkness

and the moon to blood

before the great and glorious ³⁸  day of the Lord comes.

2:21 And then ³⁹  everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.’ ⁴⁰ 

2:22 “Men of Israel, ⁴¹  listen to these words: Jesus the Nazarene, a man clearly attested to you by God with powerful deeds, ⁴²  wonders, and miraculous signs ⁴³  that God performed among you through him, just as you yourselves know – 2:23 this man, who was handed over by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you executed ⁴⁴  by nailing him to a cross at the hands of Gentiles. ⁴⁵  2:24 But God raised him up, ⁴⁶  having released ⁴⁷  him from the pains ⁴⁸  of death, because it was not possible for him to be held in its power. ⁴⁹  2:25 For David says about him,

‘I saw the Lord always in front of me, ⁵⁰ 

for he is at my right hand so that I will not be shaken.

2:26 Therefore my heart was glad and my tongue rejoiced;

my body ⁵¹  also will live in hope,

2:27 because you will not leave my soul in Hades, ⁵² 

nor permit your Holy One to experience ⁵³  decay.

2:28 You have made known to me the paths of life;

you will make me full of joy with your presence.’ ⁵⁴ 

2:29 “Brothers, ⁵⁵  I can speak confidently ⁵⁶  to you about our forefather ⁵⁷  David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day. 2:30 So then, because ⁵⁸  he was a prophet and knew that God had sworn to him with an oath to seat one of his descendants ⁵⁹  on his throne, ⁶⁰  2:31 David by foreseeing this ⁶¹  spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, ⁶²  that he was neither abandoned to Hades, ⁶³  nor did his body ⁶⁴  experience ⁶⁵  decay. ⁶⁶  2:32 This Jesus God raised up, and we are all witnesses of it. ⁶⁷  2:33 So then, exalted ⁶⁸  to the right hand ⁶⁹  of God, and having received ⁷⁰  the promise of the Holy Spirit ⁷¹  from the Father, he has poured out ⁷²  what you both see and hear. 2:34 For David did not ascend into heaven, but he himself says,

‘The Lord said to my lord,

“Sit ⁷³  at my right hand

2:35 until I make your enemies a footstool ⁷⁴  for your feet.”’ ⁷⁵ 

2:36 Therefore let all the house of Israel know beyond a doubt ⁷⁶  that God has made this Jesus whom you crucified ⁷⁷  both Lord ⁷⁸  and Christ.” ⁷⁹ 

2:37 Now when they heard this, ⁸⁰  they were acutely distressed ⁸¹  and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “What should we do, brothers?” 2:38 Peter said to them, “Repent, and each one of you be baptized ⁸²  in the name of Jesus Christ ⁸³  for ⁸⁴  the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. ⁸⁵  2:39 For the promise ⁸⁶  is for you and your children, and for all who are far away, as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.” 2:40 With many other words he testified ⁸⁷  and exhorted them saying, “Save yourselves from this perverse ⁸⁸  generation!” 2:41 So those who accepted ⁸⁹  his message ⁹⁰  were baptized, and that day about three thousand people ⁹¹  were added. ⁹² 

2:42 They were devoting themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, ⁹³  to the breaking of bread and to prayer. ⁹⁴  2:43 Reverential awe ⁹⁵  came over everyone, ⁹⁶  and many wonders and miraculous signs ⁹⁷  came about by the apostles. 2:44 All who believed were together and held ⁹⁸  everything in common, 2:45 and they began selling ⁹⁹  their property ¹⁰⁰  and possessions and distributing the proceeds ¹⁰¹  to everyone, as anyone had need. 2:46 Every day ¹⁰²  they continued to gather together by common consent in the temple courts, ¹⁰³  breaking bread from ¹⁰⁴  house to house, sharing their food with glad ¹⁰⁵  and humble hearts, ¹⁰⁶  2:47 praising God and having the good will ¹⁰⁷  of all the people. And the Lord was adding to their number every day ¹⁰⁸  those who were being saved.

3:1 Now Peter and John were going up to the temple at the time ¹⁰⁹  for prayer, ¹¹⁰  at three o’clock in the afternoon. ¹¹¹  3:2 And a man lame ¹¹²  from birth ¹¹³  was being carried up, who was placed at the temple gate called “the Beautiful Gate” every day ¹¹⁴  so he could beg for money ¹¹⁵  from those going into the temple courts. ¹¹⁶  3:3 When he saw Peter and John about to go into the temple courts, ¹¹⁷  he asked them for money. ¹¹⁸  3:4 Peter looked directly ¹¹⁹  at him (as did John) and said, “Look at us!” 3:5 So the lame man ¹²⁰  paid attention to them, expecting to receive something from them. 3:6 But Peter said, “I have no silver or gold, ¹²¹  but what I do have I give you. In the name ¹²²  of Jesus Christ ¹²³  the Nazarene, stand up and ¹²⁴  walk!” 3:7 Then ¹²⁵  Peter ¹²⁶  took hold ¹²⁷  of him by the right hand and raised him up, and at once the man’s ¹²⁸  feet and ankles were made strong. ¹²⁹  3:8 He ¹³⁰  jumped up, ¹³¹  stood and began walking around, and he entered the temple courts ¹³²  with them, walking and leaping and praising God. 3:9 All ¹³³  the people saw him walking and praising God, 3:10 and they recognized him as the man who used to sit and ask for donations ¹³⁴  at the Beautiful Gate of the temple, and they were filled with astonishment and amazement ¹³⁵  at what had happened to him.

3:11 While the man ¹³⁶  was hanging on to Peter and John, all the people, completely astounded, ran together to them in the covered walkway ¹³⁷  called Solomon’s Portico. ¹³⁸  3:12 When Peter saw this, he declared to the people, “Men of Israel, ¹³⁹  why are you amazed at this? Why ¹⁴⁰  do you stare at us as if we had made this man ¹⁴¹  walk by our own power or piety? 3:13 The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, ¹⁴²  the God of our forefathers, ¹⁴³  has glorified ¹⁴⁴  his servant ¹⁴⁵  Jesus, whom you handed over and rejected ¹⁴⁶  in the presence of Pilate after he had decided ¹⁴⁷  to release him. 3:14 But you rejected ¹⁴⁸  the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a man who was a murderer be released to you. 3:15 You killed ¹⁴⁹  the Originator ¹⁵⁰  of life, whom God raised ¹⁵¹  from the dead. To this fact we are witnesses! ¹⁵²  3:16 And on the basis of faith in Jesus’ ¹⁵³  name, ¹⁵⁴  his very name has made this man – whom you see and know – strong. The ¹⁵⁵  faith that is through Jesus ¹⁵⁶  has given him this complete health in the presence ¹⁵⁷  of you all. 3:17 And now, brothers, I know you acted in ignorance, ¹⁵⁸  as your rulers did too. 3:18 But the things God foretold ¹⁵⁹  long ago through ¹⁶⁰  all the prophets – that his Christ ¹⁶¹  would suffer – he has fulfilled in this way. 3:19 Therefore repent and turn back so that your sins may be wiped out, 3:20 so that times of refreshing ¹⁶²  may come from the presence of the Lord, ¹⁶³  and so that he may send the Messiah ¹⁶⁴  appointed ¹⁶⁵  for you – that is, Jesus. 3:21 This one ¹⁶⁶  heaven must ¹⁶⁷  receive until the time all things are restored, ¹⁶⁸  which God declared ¹⁶⁹  from times long ago ¹⁷⁰  through his holy prophets. 3:22 Moses said, ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must obey ¹⁷¹  him in everything he tells you. ¹⁷²  3:23 Every person ¹⁷³  who does not obey that prophet will be destroyed and thus removed ¹⁷⁴  from the people.’ ¹⁷⁵  3:24 And all the prophets, from Samuel and those who followed him, have spoken about and announced ¹⁷⁶  these days. 3:25 You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your ancestors, ¹⁷⁷  saying to Abraham, ‘And in your descendants ¹⁷⁸  all the nations ¹⁷⁹  of the earth will be blessed.’ ¹⁸⁰  3:26 God raised up ¹⁸¹  his servant and sent him first to you, to bless you by turning ¹⁸²  each one of you from your iniquities.” ¹⁸³ 

4:1 While Peter and John ¹⁸⁴  were speaking to the people, the priests and the commander ¹⁸⁵  of the temple guard ¹⁸⁶  and the Sadducees ¹⁸⁷  came up ¹⁸⁸  to them, 4:2 angry ¹⁸⁹  because they were teaching the people and announcing ¹⁹⁰  in Jesus the resurrection of the dead. 4:3 So ¹⁹¹  they seized ¹⁹²  them and put them in jail ¹⁹³  until the next day (for it was already evening). 4:4 But many of those who had listened to ¹⁹⁴  the message ¹⁹⁵  believed, and the number of the men ¹⁹⁶  came to about five thousand.

4:5 On the next day, ¹⁹⁷  their rulers, elders, and experts in the law ¹⁹⁸  came together ¹⁹⁹  in Jerusalem. ²⁰⁰  4:6 Annas the high priest was there, and Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and others who were members of the high priest’s family. ²⁰¹  4:7 After ²⁰²  making Peter and John ²⁰³  stand in their midst, they began to inquire, “By what power or by what name ²⁰⁴  did you do this?” 4:8 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, ²⁰⁵  replied, ²⁰⁶  “Rulers of the people and elders, ²⁰⁷  4:9 if ²⁰⁸  we are being examined ²⁰⁹  today for a good deed ²¹⁰  done to a sick man – by what means this man was healed ²¹¹  – 4:10 let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ ²¹²  the Nazarene whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, this man stands before you healthy. 4:11 This Jesus ²¹³  is the stone that was rejected by you, ²¹⁴  the builders, that has become the cornerstone. ²¹⁵  4:12 And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among people ²¹⁶  by which we must ²¹⁷  be saved.”

4:13 When they saw the boldness ²¹⁸  of Peter and John, and discovered ²¹⁹  that they were uneducated ²²⁰  and ordinary ²²¹  men, they were amazed and recognized these men had been with Jesus. 4:14 And because they saw the man who had been healed standing with them, they had nothing to say against this. ²²²  4:15 But when they had ordered them to go outside the council, ²²³  they began to confer with one another, 4:16 saying, “What should we do with these men? For it is plain ²²⁴  to all who live in Jerusalem that a notable miraculous sign ²²⁵  has come about through them, ²²⁶  and we cannot deny it. 4:17 But to keep this matter from spreading any further among the people, let us warn them to speak no more ²²⁷  to anyone in this name.” 4:18 And they called them in and ordered ²²⁸  them not to speak or teach at all in the name ²²⁹  of Jesus. 4:19 But Peter and John replied, ²³⁰  “Whether it is right before God to obey ²³¹  you rather than God, you decide, 4:20 for it is impossible ²³²  for us not to speak about what we have seen and heard.” 4:21 After threatening them further, they released them, for they could not find how to punish them on account of the people, because they were all praising ²³³  God for what had happened. 4:22 For the man, on whom this miraculous sign ²³⁴  of healing had been performed, ²³⁵  was over forty years old.

4:23 When they were released, Peter and John ²³⁶  went to their fellow believers ²³⁷  and reported everything the high priests and the elders had said to them. 4:24 When they heard this, they raised their voices to God with one mind ²³⁸  and said, “Master of all, ²³⁹  you who made the heaven, the earth, ²⁴⁰  the sea, and everything that is in them, 4:25 who said by the Holy Spirit through ²⁴¹  your servant David our forefather, ²⁴² 

‘Why do the nations ²⁴³  rage, ²⁴⁴ 

and the peoples plot foolish ²⁴⁵  things?

4:26 The kings of the earth stood together, ²⁴⁶ 

and the rulers assembled together,

against the Lord and against his ²⁴⁷  Christ.’ ²⁴⁸ 

4:27 “For indeed both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, assembled together in this city against ²⁴⁹  your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, ²⁵⁰  4:28 to do as much as your power ²⁵¹  and your plan ²⁵²  had decided beforehand ²⁵³  would happen. 4:29 And now, Lord, pay attention to ²⁵⁴  their threats, and grant ²⁵⁵  to your servants ²⁵⁶  to speak your message ²⁵⁷  with great courage, ²⁵⁸  4:30 while you extend your hand to heal, and to bring about miraculous signs ²⁵⁹  and wonders through the name of your holy servant Jesus.” 4:31 When ²⁶⁰  they had prayed, the place where they were assembled together was shaken, ²⁶¹  and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak ²⁶²  the word of God ²⁶³  courageously. ²⁶⁴ 

4:32 The group of those who believed were of one heart and mind, ²⁶⁵  and no one said that any of his possessions was his own, but everything was held in common. ²⁶⁶  4:33 With ²⁶⁷  great power the apostles were giving testimony ²⁶⁸  to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was on them all. 4:34 For there was no one needy ²⁶⁹  among them, because those who were owners of land or houses were selling ²⁷⁰  them ²⁷¹  and bringing the proceeds from the sales 4:35 and placing them at the apostles’ feet. The proceeds ²⁷²  were distributed to each, as anyone had need. 4:36 So Joseph, a Levite who was a native of Cyprus, called by the apostles Barnabas (which is translated “son of encouragement”), ²⁷³  4:37 sold ²⁷⁴  a field ²⁷⁵  that belonged to him and brought the money ²⁷⁶  and placed it at the apostles’ feet.