8. Then how does each of us hear them in his own native language?
9. We are Parthians, Medes, and Elamites, inhabitants of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,
10. Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the districts of Libya near Cyrene, as well as travelers from Rome,
11. both Jews and converts to Judaism, Cretans and Arabs, yet we hear them speaking in our own tongues of the mighty acts of God.”
12. They were all astounded and bewildered, and said to one another, “What does this mean?”
13. But others said, scoffing, “They have had too much new wine.”
14. Then Peter stood up with the Eleven, raised his voice, and proclaimed to them, “You who are Jews, indeed all of you staying in Jerusalem. Let this be known to you, and listen to my words.
15. These people are not drunk, as you suppose, for it is only nine o’clock in the morning.
16. No, this is what was spoken through the prophet Joel:
17. ‘It will come to pass in the last days,’ God says,‘that I will pour out a portion of my spirit upon all flesh.Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,your young men shall see visions,your old men shall dream dreams.
18. Indeed, upon my servants and my handmaidsI will pour out a portion of my spirit in those days,and they shall prophesy.
19. And I will work wonders in the heavens aboveand signs on the earth below:blood, fire, and a cloud of smoke.
20. The sun shall be turned to darkness,and the moon to blood,before the coming of the great and splendid day of the Lord,
21. and it shall be that everyone shall be saved who calls onthe name of the Lord.’
22. You who are Israelites, hear these words. Jesus the Nazorean was a man commended to you by God with mighty deeds, wonders, and signs, which God worked through him in your midst, as you yourselves know.
23. This man, delivered up by the set plan and foreknowledge of God, you killed, using lawless men to crucify him.
24. But God raised him up, releasing him from the throes of death, because it was impossible for him to be held by it.
25. For David says of him:‘I saw the Lord ever before me,with him at my right hand I shall not be disturbed.
26. Therefore my heart has been glad and my tongue has exulted;my flesh, too, will dwell in hope,