Acts 2

1Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place.Cross-references: Ex 23:16 · Ex 34:22 · Lev 23:15 · Num 28:16 · Deut 16:9 · 2Chr 5:13 · +14 more

2Suddenly there came from the sky a sound like the rushing of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.Cross-references: 1Ki 19:11 · Ps 18:10 · Song 4:16 · Isa 65:24 · Ezek 3:12 · Ezek 37:9 · +5 more

3Tongues like fire appeared and were distributed to them, and one sat on each of them.Cross-references: Gen 11:6 · Ps 55:9 · Isa 6:5 · Isa 11:2 · Jer 23:29 · Mal 3:2 · +11 more

4They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other languages, as the Spirit gave them the ability to speak.Cross-references: Ex 4:11 · Num 11:25 · 1Sam 10:10 · 2Sam 23:2 · Isa 28:11 · Isa 59:21 · +44 more

5Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from every nation under the sky.Cross-references: Ex 23:16 · Deut 2:25 · Isa 66:18 · Zech 8:18 · Matt 24:14 · Luke 2:25 · +11 more

6When this sound was heard, the multitude came together and were bewildered, because everyone heard them speaking in his own language.Cross-references: Matt 2:3 · Acts 2:2 · Acts 3:11 · 1Cor 16:9 · 2Cor 2:12

7They were all amazed and marveled, saying to one another, “Behold, aren’t all these who speak Galileans?Cross-references: Matt 4:18 · Matt 21:11 · Matt 26:73 · Mark 1:27 · Mark 2:12 · John 7:52 · +4 more

8How do we hear, everyone in our own native language?

9Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and people from Mesopotamia, Judea, Cappadocia, Pontus, Asia,Cross-references: Gen 10:22 · Gen 14:1 · Gen 24:10 · Deut 23:4 · Judg 3:8 · 2Ki 17:6 · +22 more

10Phrygia, Pamphylia, Egypt, the parts of Libya around Cyrene, visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes,Cross-references: Gen 12:10 · Esth 8:17 · Isa 19:23 · Jer 9:26 · Jer 46:9 · Ezek 30:5 · +25 more

11Cretans and Arabians—we hear them speaking in our languages the mighty works of God!”Cross-references: Ex 15:11 · 1Ki 10:15 · 2Chr 17:11 · 2Chr 26:7 · Job 9:10 · Ps 26:7 · +27 more

12They were all amazed and were perplexed, saying to one another, “What does this mean?”Cross-references: Luke 15:26 · Luke 18:36 · Acts 2:7 · Acts 10:17 · Acts 17:20

13Others, mocking, said, “They are filled with new wine.”Cross-references: 1Sam 1:14 · Job 32:19 · Song 7:9 · Isa 25:6 · Zech 9:15 · Zech 9:17 · +4 more

14But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice and spoke out to them, “You men of Judea and all you who dwell at Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen to my words.Cross-references: Deut 27:9 · Prov 8:32 · Isa 40:9 · Isa 51:1 · Isa 51:4 · Isa 51:7 · +11 more

15For these aren’t drunken, as you suppose, seeing it is only the third hour of the day.Cross-references: 1Sam 1:15 · Matt 20:3 · 1Thess 5:5

16But this is what has been spoken through the prophet Joel:Cross-references: Joel 2:28

17‘It will be in the last days, says God, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh. Your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your young men will see visions. Your old men will dream dreams.Cross-references: Gen 6:12 · Gen 49:1 · Ps 65:2 · Ps 72:6 · Prov 1:23 · Isa 2:2 · +28 more

18Yes, and on my servants and on my handmaidens in those days, I will pour out my Spirit, and they will prophesy.Cross-references: Acts 21:10 · 1Cor 7:21 · Gal 3:28 · Col 3:11

19I will show wonders in the sky above, and signs on the earth beneath: blood, and fire, and billows of smoke.Cross-references: Joel 2:30 · Zeph 1:14 · Mal 4:1

20The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and glorious day of the Lord comes.Cross-references: Isa 2:12 · Isa 13:9 · Isa 13:15 · Isa 24:23 · Isa 34:8 · Jer 4:23 · +15 more

21It will be that whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.’Cross-references: Ps 86:5 · Joel 2:32 · Matt 28:19 · Acts 9:11 · Acts 9:15 · Acts 22:16 · +3 more

22“Men of Israel, hear these words! Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved by God to you by mighty works and wonders and signs which God did by him among you, even as you yourselves know,Cross-references: Isa 41:14 · Matt 2:23 · Matt 9:8 · Matt 11:2 · Matt 12:28 · Luke 7:20 · +32 moreExamined: The Historical Jesus →

23him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;Cross-references: Gen 50:20 · Ps 76:10 · Isa 10:6 · Isa 46:10 · Dan 4:35 · Dan 9:24 · +23 moreExamined: The Historical Jesus →

24whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.Cross-references: Ps 116:3 · Ps 116:16 · Isa 25:8 · Isa 26:19 · Isa 53:10 · Hos 13:14 · +35 moreExamined: The Historical Jesus →

25For David says concerning him, ‘I saw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved.Cross-references: Ps 16:8 · Ps 21:7 · Ps 30:6 · Ps 62:2 · Ps 62:6 · Ps 73:23 · +7 moreExamined: The Prophecy Loom →

26Therefore my heart was glad, and my tongue rejoiced. Moreover my flesh also will dwell in hope,Cross-references: Ps 16:9 · Ps 22:22 · Ps 30:11 · Ps 63:5 · Ps 71:23Examined: The Prophecy Loom →

27because you will not leave my soul in Hades, neither will you allow your Holy One to see decay.Cross-references: Job 19:25 · Ps 16:10 · Ps 49:15 · Ps 86:13 · Ps 89:19 · Ps 116:3 · +17 moreExamined: The Prophecy Loom →

28You made known to me the ways of life. You will make me full of gladness with your presence.’Cross-references: Ps 4:6 · Ps 16:11 · Ps 17:15 · Ps 21:4 · Ps 21:6 · Ps 25:4 · +6 moreExamined: The Prophecy Loom →

29“Brothers, I may tell you freely of the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.Cross-references: 1Ki 2:10 · Neh 3:16 · Acts 7:8 · Acts 13:36 · Acts 26:26 · Heb 7:4Examined: The Prophecy Loom →

30Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his body, according to the flesh, he would raise up the Christ to sit on his throne,Cross-references: 2Sam 7:11 · 2Sam 23:2 · 1Chr 17:11 · Ps 2:6 · Ps 72:1 · Ps 89:3 · +29 moreExamined: The Prophecy Loom →

31he foreseeing this, spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that his soul wasn’t left in Hades, and his flesh didn’t see decay.Cross-references: Ps 16:10 · Acts 2:27 · Acts 13:35 · 1Pet 1:11Examined: Jehovah's Witnesses →

32This Jesus God raised up, to which we all are witnesses.Cross-references: Luke 24:46 · John 15:27 · John 20:26 · Acts 1:8 · Acts 1:22 · Acts 2:24 · +4 moreExamined: The Prophecy Loom →

33Being therefore exalted by the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this which you now see and hear.Cross-references: Ps 89:19 · Ps 89:24 · Ps 118:16 · Ps 118:22 · Isa 52:13 · Isa 53:12 · +24 moreExamined: The Prophecy Loom →

34For David didn’t ascend into the heavens, but he says himself, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit by my right handCross-references: Ps 110:1 · Matt 22:42 · Mark 12:36 · Luke 20:42 · 1Cor 15:25 · Eph 1:22 · +1 moreExamined: The Prophecy Loom →

35until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.”’Cross-references: Gen 3:15 · Josh 10:24 · Ps 2:8 · Ps 18:40 · Ps 21:8 · Ps 72:9 · +9 moreExamined: The Prophecy Loom →

36“Let all the house of Israel therefore know certainly that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.”Cross-references: Ps 2:1 · Jer 2:4 · Jer 9:26 · Jer 31:31 · Jer 33:14 · Ezek 34:30 · +14 moreExamined: The Prophecy Loom →

37Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”Cross-references: Ezek 7:16 · Zech 12:10 · Luke 3:10 · Luke 3:12 · Luke 3:14 · John 8:9 · +11 more

38Peter 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.Cross-references: Isa 32:15 · Isa 44:3 · Isa 59:21 · Ezek 36:25 · Ezek 39:29 · Joel 2:28 · +31 more

39For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”Cross-references: Gen 17:7 · Ps 115:14 · Isa 44:3 · Isa 54:13 · Isa 57:19 · Isa 59:19 · +31 more

40With many other words he testified and exhorted them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation!”Cross-references: Num 16:28 · Deut 32:5 · Prov 9:6 · Matt 3:7 · Matt 12:34 · Matt 16:4 · +25 more

41Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. There were added that day about three thousand souls.Cross-references: Ps 72:16 · Ps 110:3 · Matt 13:44 · Luke 5:5 · John 14:12 · Acts 1:15 · +8 more

42They continued steadfastly in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayer.Cross-references: Mark 4:16 · Luke 24:35 · John 8:31 · Acts 1:14 · Acts 2:46 · Acts 4:23 · +26 more

43Fear came on every soul, and many wonders and signs were done through the apostles.Cross-references: Esth 8:17 · Jer 33:9 · Hos 3:5 · Mark 16:17 · Luke 7:16 · Luke 8:37 · +7 more

44All who believed were together, and had all things in common.Cross-references: Acts 4:32 · Acts 5:4 · Acts 6:1 · 2Cor 8:9 · 2Cor 8:14 · 2Cor 9:6 · +1 more

45They sold their possessions and goods, and distributed them to all, according as anyone had need.Cross-references: Ps 112:9 · Prov 11:24 · Prov 19:17 · Eccl 11:1 · Isa 58:7 · Matt 19:21 · +12 more

46Day by day, continuing steadfastly with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread at home, they took their food with gladness and singleness of heart,Cross-references: Deut 12:7 · Deut 12:12 · Deut 16:11 · Neh 8:10 · Ps 86:11 · Eccl 9:7 · +18 more

47praising God and having favor with all the people. The Lord added to the assembly day by day those who were being saved.Cross-references: Luke 2:52 · Luke 19:48 · Acts 2:39 · Acts 2:41 · Acts 4:21 · Acts 4:33 · +10 more