Acts 2:14-36 - Peter's Sermon On The Day Of Pentecost
14 But Peter stood up along with the eleven, and raising his voice he addressed them thus: "Men of Judaea and residents in Jerusalem, let everyone of you understand this ??attend to what I say: 15 these men are not drunk, as you imagine. Why, it is only nine in the morning! 16 No, this is what was predicted by the prophet Joel ??17 In the last days, saith God, then will I pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, your sons and daughters shall prophesy, your young men shall see visions, your old men shall dream dreams: 18 on my very slaves and slave-girls in those days will I pour out my Spirit, and they shall prophesy. 19 And I will display wonders in heaven above and signs on earth below, blood and fire and vapour of smoke: 20 the sun shall be changed into darkness and the moon into blood, ere the great, open Day of the Lord arrives. 21 And everyone who invokes the name of the Lord shall be saved.
22 Men of Israel, listen to my words. Jesus the Nazarene, a man accredited to you by God through miracles, wonders, and signs which God performed by him among you (as you yourselves know), 23 this Jesus, betrayed in the predestined course of God's deliberate purpose, you got wicked men to nail to the cross and murder; 24 but God raised him by checking the pangs of death. Death could not hold him. 25 For David says of him, I saw the Lord before me evermore; lest I be shaken, he is at my right hand. 26 My heart is glad, my tongue exults, my very flesh will rest in hope, 27 because thou wilt not forsake my soul in the grave, nor let thy holy one suffer decay. 28 Thou hast made known to me the paths of life, thou wilt fill me with delight in thy presence.
29 Brothers, I can speak quite plainly to you about the patriarch David; he died and was buried and his tomb remains with us to this day. 30 (He was a prophet; he knew God had sworn an oath to him that he would seat one of his descendants on his throne; 31 so he spoke with a prevision of the resurrection of the Christ, when he said that he was not forsaken in the grave nor did his flesh suffer decay.
32 This Jesus God raised, as we can all bear witness. 33 Uplifted then by God's right hand, and receiving from the Father the long-promised holy Spirit, he has poured on us what you now see and hear.) 34 For it was not David who ascended to heaven; David says, The Lord said to my Lord, 'Sit at my right hand, 35 till I make your enemies a footstool for your feet'.
36 So let all the house of Israel understand beyond a doubt that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this very Jesus whom you have crucified."