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Leading up to the Sermon
Ac 2:1 ¶ When the Day of Pentecost had fully come, they
were all with one accord in one place.
2 And suddenly
there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled
the whole house where they were sitting.
3 Then there
appeared to them divided tongues, as of fire, and one sat upon each of them.
4 And they were
all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the
Spirit gave them utterance.
5 ¶ And there were
dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from every nation under heaven.
6 And when this
sound occurred, the multitude came together, and were confused, because
everyone heard them speak in his own language.
7 Then they were
all amazed and marveled, saying to one another, "Look, are not all these
who speak Galileans?
8 "And how is
it that we hear, each in our own language in which we were born?
9 "Parthians
and Medes and Elamites, those dwelling in Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia,
Pontus and Asia,
10 "Phrygia
and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya adjoining Cyrene, visitors from
Rome, both Jews and proselytes,
11 "Cretans
and Arabs--we hear them speaking in our own tongues the wonderful works of
God."
12 So they were
all amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, "Whatever could this
mean?"
13 Others mocking
said, "They are full of new wine."
Peter’s sermon
14 ¶ But Peter,
standing up with the eleven, raised his voice and said to them, "Men of
Judea and all who dwell in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and heed my
words.
15 "For these
are not drunk, as you suppose, since it is only the third hour of the day.
<Joel’s Prophesy>
16 "But this
is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:
17 'And it shall
come to pass in the last days, says God, That I will pour out of My Spirit on
all flesh; Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, Your young men shall
see visions, Your old men shall dream dreams.
18 And on My
menservants and on My maidservants I will pour out My Spirit in those days;
And they shall prophesy.
19 I will show
wonders in heaven above And signs in the earth beneath: Blood and fire and
vapor of smoke.
20 The sun shall
be turned into darkness, And the moon into blood, Before the coming of the
great and awesome day of the LORD.
21 And it shall
come to pass That whoever calls on the name of the LORD Shall be saved.'
</Joel’s
Prophesy>
22 "Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth,
a Man attested by God to you by miracles, wonders, and signs which God did
through Him in your midst, as you yourselves also know--
23 "Him,
being delivered by the determined purpose and foreknowledge of God, you have
taken by lawless hands, have crucified, and put to death;
24 "whom God
raised up, having loosed the pains of death, because it was not possible that
He should be held by it.
25 "For David
says concerning Him: 'I foresaw the LORD always before my face, For He is at
my right hand, that I may not be shaken.
26 Therefore my
heart rejoiced, and my tongue was glad; Moreover my flesh also will rest in
hope.
27 For You will
not leave my soul in Hades, Nor will You allow Your Holy One to see
corruption.
28 You have made
known to me the ways of life; You will make me full of joy in Your presence.'
29 "Men and
brethren, let me speak freely to you of the patriarch David, that he is both
dead and buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.
30 "Therefore, 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,
31 "he,
foreseeing this, spoke concerning the resurrection of the Christ, that His
soul was not left in Hades, nor did His flesh see corruption.
32 "This
Jesus God has raised up, of which we are all witnesses.
33 "Therefore
being exalted to the right hand of God, and having received from the Father
the promise of the Holy Spirit, He poured out this which you now see and
hear.
34 "For David
did not ascend into the heavens, but he says himself: 'The LORD said to my
Lord, "Sit at My right hand,
35 Till I make
Your enemies Your footstool."'
36 "Therefore
let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God has made this Jesus, whom
you crucified, both Lord and Christ."
After Peters sermon
37 ¶ Now when they
heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the
apostles, "Men and brethren, what shall we do?"
38 Then Peter said
to them, "Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of
Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the
Holy Spirit.
39 "For the
promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many
as the Lord our God will call."
40 And with many
other words he testified and exhorted them, saying, "Be saved from this
perverse generation."
41 Then those who
gladly received his word were baptized; and that day about three thousand
souls were added to them.
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Leading up to the Sermon
Ac 17:16 ¶ Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his
spirit was provoked within him when he saw that the city was given over to
idols.
17 Therefore he
reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and with the Gentile worshipers, and
in the marketplace daily with those who happened to be there.
18 Then certain
Epicurean and Stoic philosophers encountered him. And some said, "What
does this babbler want to say?" Others said, "He seems to be a
proclaimer of foreign gods," because he preached to them Jesus and the
resurrection.
19 And they took
him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, "May we know what this new
doctrine is of which you speak?
20 "For you
are bringing some strange things to our ears. Therefore we want to know what
these things mean."
21 For all the
Athenians and the foreigners who were there spent their time in nothing else
but either to tell or to hear some new thing.
Paul’s Sermon
22 ¶ Then Paul
stood in the midst of the Areopagus and said, "Men of Athens, I perceive
that in all things you are very religious;
23 "for as I
was passing through and considering the objects of your worship, I even found
an altar with this inscription: TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore, the One whom
you worship without knowing, Him I proclaim to you:
24 "God, who
made the world and everything in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth,
does not dwell in temples made with hands.
25 "Nor is He
worshiped with men's hands, as though He needed anything, since He gives to
all life, breath, and all things.
26 "And He
has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the
earth, and has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of
their dwellings,
27 "so that
they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope for Him and find
Him, though He is not far from each one of us;
28 "for in
Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have
said, 'For we are also His offspring.'
29
"Therefore, since we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think
that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, something shaped by
art and man's devising.
30 "Truly,
these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere
to repent,
31 "because
He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by
the Man whom He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by
raising Him from the dead."
After Paul’s Sermon
32 ¶ And when they
heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked, while others said,
"We will hear you again on this matter."
33 So Paul
departed from among them.
34 However, some
men joined him and believed, among them Dionysius the Areopagite, a woman
named Damaris, and others with them.
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