Acts 2 · Notes

And as the day of Pentecost (Shavuot) was being fulfilled, they were all together in the same place.

And suddenly there came from the sky a sound just like a rushing violent wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting.

And there appeared to them tongues being distributed, like fire, and it sat upon each one of them.

And they were all filled with the holy wind/spirit and began to speak in other tongues/languages, just as the wind/spirit was giving them to utter.

Now there were dwelling in Yerushalayim (Jerusalem) Jews (Yehudim), devout men from every nation of those under the sky.

And when this sound occurred, the multitude came together and was confounded, because each one heard them speaking in his own language.

And they were amazed and marveled, saying, "Behold, are not all these who are speaking Galileans?

And how is it that we hear, each of us, in our own language in which we were born?

Parthians and Medes and Elamites, and those dwelling in Mesopotamia, Yehudah (Judea) and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,

Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya toward Cyrene, and the visiting Romans,

both Jews (Yehudim) and proselytes, Cretans and Arabs — we hear them speaking in our own tongues/languages the great deeds of God."

And all were amazed and perplexed, saying one to another, "What does this wish to be?"

But others, mocking, were saying that "They are full of sweet wine."

But Kefa (Peter), standing with the eleven, lifted up his voice and declared to them, "Men, Jews (Yehudim), and all those dwelling in Yerushalayim (Jerusalem), let this be known to you, and give ear to my words.

For these people are not drunk, as you suppose, for it is the third hour of the day;

but this is what has been spoken through the prophet Yoel (Joel):

@@'And it will be in the last days, says God, that I will pour out from my wind/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;

and indeed upon my menservants and upon my maidservants in those days I will pour out from my wind/spirit, and they will prophesy.

And I will give wonders in the sky above and signs upon the earth below — blood and fire and vapor of smoke.

The sun will be turned into darkness and the moon into blood, before the day of the Lord comes — the great and manifest day.

And it will be that everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved.'@@

"Men, Israelites, hear these words: Yeshua the Nazarene (Yeshua the Nazarene), a man demonstrated to you to be from God by mighty works and wonders and signs which God did through him in your midst, just as you yourselves know —

this one, given up by the determined plan and foreknowledge of God, you, through the hand of lawless men, fastened up and killed;

whom God raised up, having loosed the birth-pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it.

For David says concerning him: 'I saw the Lord before me always, because he is at my right hand, that I may not be shaken.

Therefore my heart was glad and my tongue rejoiced; and still my flesh also will rest upon hope,

because you will not abandon my soul to Hades, nor will you give your holy one to see corruption.

You made known to me ways of life; you will fill me with gladness with your face.'

"Men, brothers, it is permitted for me to say to you with boldness concerning the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is among us until this day.

Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing that God swore to him with an oath that of the fruit of his loins he would seat one upon his throne,

looking ahead, he spoke concerning the resurrection of the Messiah, that neither was he abandoned to Hades nor did his flesh see corruption.

This Yeshua (Jesus) God raised up, of which we all are witnesses.

Therefore, exalted to the right hand of God, and having received the promise of the holy wind/spirit from the Father, he poured out this which you both see and hear.

For David did not ascend into the heavens, but he himself says: 'The Lord said to my lord, @@"Sit at my right hand,

until I set your enemies as a footstool for your feet."@@'

Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God made him both Lord and Messiah — this Yeshua (Jesus) whom you crucified."

And hearing this, they were pierced in the heart, and they said to Kefa (Peter) and the rest of the apostles, "What shall we do, men, brothers?"

And Kefa (Peter) said to them, "Change your minds, and let each of you be immersed upon the name of Yeshua the Messiah (Jesus) for the release of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the holy wind/spirit.

For to you is the promise, and to your children, and to all those at a distance, as many as the Lord our God may call to himself."

And with many other words he testified solemnly and was exhorting them, saying, "Be saved from this crooked generation."

So those who welcomed his word were immersed, and there were added in that day about three thousand souls.

And they were persevering in the teaching of the apostles and in the fellowship, in the breaking of the bread and in the prayers.

And fear was coming upon every soul, and many wonders and signs were happening through the apostles.

And all those who believed were together in the same place and had all things in common,

and they were selling their properties and goods and distributing them to all, as anyone had need.

And persevering with one accord day by day in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they were sharing food in exultation and simplicity of heart,

praising God and having favor toward all the people. And the Lord was adding those being saved day by day to the same place.