The coming of the Holy Spirit
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📚And when the day of Pentecost✭ had fully come they were all with one accord in one place. 2 📚✭And suddenly there came a sound from heaven like a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. 3 📚✭And there appeared to them divided tongues like fire, and sat on each of them. 4 📚And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit✭ and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them ability to speak.5 📚✭And there were living at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from every nation under heaven. 6 📚Now when this sound was heard, a crowd came together, and was bewildered because everyone heard them speak in his own language. 7 📚✭And they were all amazed and marvelled and said to one another, “Look, are not all these who speak Galileans? 8 Then how does each of us hear in our own language in which we were born? 9 📚Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the inhabitants of Mesopotamia, Judea, Cappadocia, Pontus, and Asia, 10 📚Phrygia, and Pamphylia, Egypt, and the parts of Libya near Cyrene, and strangers from Rome, Jews and converts to Judaism, 11 📚✭Cretans and Arabians, we hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God”. 12 📚And they were all amazed and perplexed, and said to one another, “What does this mean?”
13 📚✭Others, mocking, said, “These men are full of new wine”.
Peter’s message on the day of Pentecost
14 📚✭But Peter, standing up with the Eleven, raised his voice and said to them, “You men of Judea, and all you who are staying in Jerusalem, let this be known to you: listen to my words, 15 📚✭for these are not drunk, as you suppose, since it is only nine in the morning. 16 ✭But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel:
17 📚✭And it will happen in the last days, God says,
I will pour out of my Spirit on all flesh,
and your sons and your daughters will prophesy,
and your young men will see visions,
and your old men will dream dreams.
18 📚And in those days I will pour out of my Spirit
on my servants✭ and my maidservants,
and they will prophesy.
19 📚✭And I will show wonders in heaven above,
and signs in the earth below, blood, and fire,
and vapour of smoke.
20 📚The sun will be turned into darkness,
and the moon into blood,
before that great and renowned day
of the Lord comes.
21 📚✭And it will be that whoever calls
on the name of the Lord will be saved.
22 📚✭“You men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth was a man proved true by God to you through miracles and wonders and signs which God did through him among you, as you yourselves also know. 23 📚✭He was delivered up by the determined purpose and foreknowledge of God, and you took him and by wicked hands crucified and killed him. 24 📚✭God raised him up, setting him free from the anguish of death, because it was not possible that he would be held by it. 25 📚✭For David speaks concerning him,
I saw the Lord always before my face,
for he is at my right hand,
so that I might not be shaken.
26 📚Therefore my heart rejoiced
and my tongue was glad.
Moreover, my flesh will rest in hope,
27 📚Because you will not leave my soul
in the realm of the dead✭,
nor will you allow your Holy One
to see corruption.
28 📚You have made known to me
the ways of life.
You will fill me with joy by your countenance.
29 📚✭“Men, brethren, let me speak freely to you about the patriarch David. He is both dead and buried, and his tomb is with us to this day. 30 📚✭Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of his descendants according to the flesh, he would raise Christ up to sit on his throne, 31 📚he, seeing this in advance, spoke of the resurrection of Christ✭, that his soul was not left in the realm of the dead✭, nor did his flesh see corruption.
32 📚“This Jesus God has raised up, and we are all witnesses✭ of this. 33 📚✭Therefore, being exalted to the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit✭, he has poured out what you now see and hear. 34 📚✭For David did not ascend into the heavens, but he himself said,
The Lord said to my Lord,
Sit at my right hand,
35 📚Until I make your enemies
your footstool.
36 📚✭“Therefore let all the house of Israel know for certain that God has made that same Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ”.
37 📚✭Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and to the rest of the apostles, “Men, brethren, what shall we do?”
38 📚✭Then Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins✭, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. 39 📚✭For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are far off, to as many as the Lord our God will call”.
40 📚✭And with many other words he testified and exhorted, saying, “Save yourselves from this perverse generation”. 41 📚✭Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. And the same day there were added to them about three thousand souls.
The early Church
42 📚And they persevered✭ in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers. 43 📚And fear came on every soul✭. And many wonders and miraculous signs were done by the apostles. 44 📚✭And all who believed were together, and had everything in common. 45 📚And they sold their possessions and goods, and distributed them to everyone, as each one had need.