Acts 2:16-17

2:16 But this is what was spoken about through the prophet Joel: ¹ 

2:17 ‘And in the last days ²  it will be,’ God says,

‘that I will pour out my Spirit on all people, ³ 

and your sons and your daughters will prophesy,

and your young men will see visions,

and your old men will dream dreams.

Acts 2:41

2:41 So those who accepted ⁴  his message ⁵  were baptized, and that day about three thousand people ⁶  were added. ⁷ 

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¹ sn Note how in the quotation that follows all genders, ages, and classes are included. The event is like a hope Moses expressed in Num 11:29.

² sn The phrase in the last days is not quoted from Joel, but represents Peter’s interpretive explanation of the current events as falling “in the last days.”

³ tn Grk “on all flesh.”

⁴ tn Or “who acknowledged the truth of.”

⁵ tn Grk “word.”

⁶ tn Grk “souls” (here an idiom for the whole person).

⁷ tn Or “were won over.”