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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Acts 2 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/acts/2.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/acts/2-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</a> > Acts 2</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../acts/1.htm" title="Acts 1">◄</a> Acts 2 <a href="../acts/3.htm" title="Acts 3">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s">The Coming of the Holy Spirit</h3><p class="par"><span class="v44_2_1"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.2.1" class="v44_2_1">1</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Acts.2.1!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> When the day of Pentecost came, all the believers were gathered together in one place. </span><span class="v44_2_2"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.2.2" class="v44_2_2">2</span>Suddenly there was a noise from the sky which sounded like a strong wind blowing, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. </span><span class="v44_2_3"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.2.3" class="v44_2_3">3</span>Then they saw what looked like tongues of fire which spread out and touched each person there. </span><span class="v44_2_4"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.2.4" class="v44_2_4">4</span>They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to talk in other languages, as the Spirit enabled them to speak.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v44_2_5"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.2.5" class="v44_2_5">5</span>There were Jews living in Jerusalem, religious people who had come from every country in the world. </span><span class="v44_2_6"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.2.6" class="v44_2_6">6</span>When they heard this noise, a large crowd gathered. They were all excited, because all of them heard the believers talking in their own languages. </span><span class="v44_2_7"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.2.7" class="v44_2_7">7</span>In amazement and wonder they exclaimed, “These people who are talking like this are Galileans! </span><span class="v44_2_8"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.2.8" class="v44_2_8">8</span>How is it, then, that all of us hear them speaking in our own native languages? </span><span class="v44_2_9"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.2.9" class="v44_2_9">9</span>We are from Parthia, Media, and Elam; from Mesopotamia, Judea, and Cappadocia; from Pontus and Asia, </span><span class="v44_2_10"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.2.10" class="v44_2_10">10</span>from Phrygia and Pamphylia, from Egypt and the regions of Libya near Cyrene. Some of us are from Rome, </span><span class="v44_2_11"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.2.11" class="v44_2_11">11</span>both Jews and Gentiles converted to Judaism, and some of us are from Crete and Arabia—yet all of us hear them speaking in our own languages about the great things that God has done!” </span><span class="v44_2_12"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.2.12" class="v44_2_12">12</span>Amazed and confused, they kept asking each other, “What does this mean?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v44_2_13"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.2.13" class="v44_2_13">13</span>But others made fun of the believers, saying, “These people are drunk!”</span></p><h3 class="s">Peter's Message</h3><p class="par"><span class="v44_2_14"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.2.14" class="v44_2_14">14</span>Then Peter stood up with the other eleven apostles and in a loud voice began to speak to the crowd: “Fellow Jews and all of you who live in Jerusalem, listen to me and let me tell you what this means. </span><span class="v44_2_15"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.2.15" class="v44_2_15">15</span>These people are not drunk, as you suppose; it is only nine o'clock in the morning. </span><span class="v44_2_16"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.2.16" class="v44_2_16">16</span>Instead, this is what the prophet Joel spoke about:</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v44_2_17"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.2.17" class="v44_2_17">17</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Acts.2.17!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> ‘This is what I will do in the last days, God says:</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v44_2_17">I will pour out my Spirit on everyone.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v44_2_17">Your sons and daughters will proclaim my message;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v44_2_17">your young men will see visions,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v44_2_17">and your old men will have dreams.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v44_2_18"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.2.18" class="v44_2_18">18</span>Yes, even on my servants, both men and women,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v44_2_18">I will pour out my Spirit in those days,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v44_2_18">and they will proclaim my message.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v44_2_19"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.2.19" class="v44_2_19">19</span>I will perform miracles in the sky above</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v44_2_19">and wonders on the earth below.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v44_2_19">There will be blood, fire, and thick smoke;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v44_2_20"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.2.20" class="v44_2_20">20</span>the sun will be darkened,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v44_2_20">and the moon will turn red as blood,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v44_2_20">before the great and glorious Day of the Lord comes.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v44_2_21"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.2.21" class="v44_2_21">21</span>And then, whoever calls out to the Lord for help will be saved.’</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v44_2_22"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.2.22" class="v44_2_22">22</span>“Listen to these words, fellow Israelites! Jesus of Nazareth was a man whose divine authority was clearly proven to you by all the miracles and wonders which God performed through him. You yourselves know this, for it happened here among you. </span><span class="v44_2_23"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.2.23" class="v44_2_23">23</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Acts.2.23!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> In accordance with his own plan God had already decided that Jesus would be handed over to you; and you killed him by letting sinful men crucify him. </span><span class="v44_2_24"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.2.24" class="v44_2_24">24</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Acts.2.24!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> But God raised him from death, setting him free from its power, because it was impossible that death should hold him prisoner. </span><span class="v44_2_25"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.2.25" class="v44_2_25">25</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Acts.2.25!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> For David said about him,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v44_2_25">‘I saw the Lord before me at all times;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v44_2_25">he is near me, and I will not be troubled.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v44_2_26"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.2.26" class="v44_2_26">26</span>And so I am filled with gladness,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v44_2_26">and my words are full of joy.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v44_2_26">And I, mortal though I am,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v44_2_26">will rest assured in hope,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v44_2_27"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.2.27" class="v44_2_27">27</span>because you will not abandon me in the world of the dead;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v44_2_27">you will not allow your faithful servant to rot in the grave.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v44_2_28"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.2.28" class="v44_2_28">28</span>You have shown me the paths that lead to life,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v44_2_28">and your presence will fill me with joy.’</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v44_2_29"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.2.29" class="v44_2_29">29</span>“My friends, I must speak to you plainly about our famous ancestor King David. He died and was buried, and his grave is here with us to this very day. </span><span class="v44_2_30"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.2.30" class="v44_2_30">30</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Acts.2.30!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> He was a prophet, and he knew what God had promised him: God had made a vow that he would make one of David's descendants a king, just as David was. </span><span class="v44_2_31"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.2.31" class="v44_2_31">31</span>David saw what God was going to do in the future, and so he spoke about the resurrection of the Messiah when he said,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v44_2_31">‘He was not abandoned in the world of the dead;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v44_2_31">his body did not rot in the grave.’</span></p><p class="m"><span class="v44_2_32"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.2.32" class="v44_2_32">32</span>God has raised this very Jesus from death, and we are all witnesses to this fact. </span><span class="v44_2_33"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.2.33" class="v44_2_33">33</span>He has been raised to the right side of God, his Father, and has received from him the Holy Spirit, as he had promised. What you now see and hear is his gift that he has poured out on us. </span><span class="v44_2_34"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.2.34" class="v44_2_34">34</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Acts.2.34!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> For it was not David who went up into heaven; rather he said,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v44_2_34">‘The Lord said to my Lord:</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v44_2_34">Sit here at my right side</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v44_2_35"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.2.35" class="v44_2_35">35</span>until I put your enemies as a footstool under your feet.’</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v44_2_36"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.2.36" class="v44_2_36">36</span>“All the people of Israel, then, are to know for sure that this Jesus, whom you crucified, is the one that God has made Lord and Messiah!”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v44_2_37"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.2.37" class="v44_2_37">37</span>When the people heard this, they were deeply troubled and said to Peter and the other apostles, “What shall we do, brothers?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v44_2_38"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.2.38" class="v44_2_38">38</span>Peter said to them, “Each one of you must turn away from your sins and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ, so that your sins will be forgiven; and you will receive God's gift, the Holy Spirit. </span><span class="v44_2_39"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.2.39" class="v44_2_39">39</span>For God's promise was made to you and your children, and to all who are far away—all whom the Lord our God calls to himself.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v44_2_40"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.2.40" class="v44_2_40">40</span>Peter made his appeal to them and with many other words he urged them, saying, “Save yourselves from the punishment coming on this wicked people!” </span><span class="v44_2_41"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.2.41" class="v44_2_41">41</span>Many of them believed his message and were baptized, and about three thousand people were added to the group that day. </span><span class="v44_2_42"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.2.42" class="v44_2_42">42</span>They spent their time in learning from the apostles, taking part in the fellowship, and sharing in the fellowship meals and the prayers.</span></p><h3 class="s">Life among the Believers</h3><p class="par"><span class="v44_2_43"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.2.43" class="v44_2_43">43</span>Many miracles and wonders were being done through the apostles, and everyone was filled with awe. </span><span class="v44_2_44"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.2.44" class="v44_2_44">44</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Acts.2.44!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> All the believers continued together in close fellowship and shared their belongings with one another. </span><span class="v44_2_45"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.2.45" class="v44_2_45">45</span>They would sell their property and possessions, and distribute the money among all, according to what each one needed. </span><span class="v44_2_46"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.2.46" class="v44_2_46">46</span>Day after day they met as a group in the Temple, and they had their meals together in their homes, eating with glad and humble hearts, </span><span class="v44_2_47"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.2.47" class="v44_2_47">47</span>praising God, and enjoying the good will of all the people. 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