KJ3 Literal Translation
Acts 2
1 The apostles, filled with the Holy Spirit, speak other languages. 14 Peter shows that they spoke by the power of the Holy Spirit. 43 They work many miracles.
1And in the day to be fulfilled, the day of Pentecost, they were all with one mind upon the same place and purpose.
2And suddenly a sound came out of the heaven, as being borne along by a violent wind! And it filled all the house where they were sitting.
3And tongues as of fire appeared to them, being distributed, and it sat on each one of them.
4And they were all filled of the Holy Spirit, and began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave to them to speak.
5Now there were Jews dwelling in Jerusalem, devout men from every nation of the ones under the heaven.
6But this sound occurring, the throng came together and were confounded, because they were each one hearing them speaking in his own dialect.
7And all were amazed and marveled, saying to one another, Behold, are not all these, the ones speaking, Galileans?
8And how do we hear each one in our own dialect in which we were born,
9Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and those living in Mesopotamia, both Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,
10both Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt, and the regions of Libya over against Cyrene, and the sojourning Romans, both Jews and proselytes,
11Cretans and Arabians; in our own languages we hear them speaking the great deeds of God?
12And all were amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, What wishes this to be?
13But ridiculing, others said, They are filled of sweet new wine.
14But standing up with the Eleven, Peter lifted up his voice and spoke out to them, Men, Jews, and all the ones living in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and give ear to my words:
15For these are not drunk, as you assume, for it is the third hour of the day.
16But this is that having been been spoken by the prophet Joel,
17“And it shall be” in the last days, God says, “I will pour from My Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy;” “and your young men shall see visions,” “and your old men shall dream dreams;”
18“and also I will pour out My Spirit on My slaves and slave women in those days,” and they shall prophesy.
19“And I will give wonders in the heaven above,” and miraculous signs “on the earth below, blood and fire and vapor of smoke.
20The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the” “coming of the great and glorious” “day of the Lord.”
21“And it shall be that everyone who shall call on the name of the Lord will be saved.” Joel 2:28-32
22Men, Israelites, hear these words: Jesus the Nazarene, a Man from God, having been exhibited among you by works of power and wonders and miraculous signs, which God did through Him in your midst, as you yourselves also know,
23this One given up by the before-determined purpose and foreknowledge of God, you having taken by lawless hands, having crucified Him, you killed Him.
24But God raised Him up, loosening the throes of death, because it was not possible for Him to be held by it.
25For David said as to Him, “I foresaw the Lord before Me through all, because He is at My right hand, that I not be shaken.
26Because of this My heart rejoiced, and My tongue exulted; and My flesh also will dwell on hope,
27because You will not abandon My soul in Hades, nor will You give Your Holy One to see corruption.
28You revealed to Me paths of life; You will fill Me with joy with Your face.” LXXPsa. 15:8-11; MT-Psa. 16:8-11
29Men, brothers, it is permitted 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.
30Being a prophet, therefore, and knowing that God swore with an oath to him that of the fruit of his loin, as concerning flesh, to raise the Christ to sit down on his throne, see Psa. 132:11
31foreseeing, he spoke concerning the resurrection of the Christ, “that His soul was not left in Hades, nor did His flesh see corruption.” LXX-Psa. 15:10; MT-Psa. 16:10
32This Jesus, God raised up, of which we all are witnesses.
33Therefore having been exalted to the right hand of God, and receiving the promise of the Holy Spirit from the Father, He poured out this which you now see and hear.
34For David did not ascend into Heaven, but he says, “The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at My right hand
35until I place the hostile ones to You as a footstool to Your feet.” LXX-Psa. 109:1; MT-Psa. 110:1
36Therefore assuredly, let all the house of Israel acknowledge that God made Him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.
37But hearing this, they were pierced in the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, Men, brothers, what shall we do?
38And Peter said to them, Repent and be baptized, each one of you on the name of Jesus Christ to remission of sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
39For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all the ones unto far off, as many as the Lord our God shall call.
40And with many other words he earnestly testified and exhorted, saying, Be saved from this perverse generation.
41Truly, then, the ones gladly welcoming his words were baptized. And about three thousand souls were added that day.
42And they were continuing steadfastly in the doctrine of the apostles, and in fellowship, and in the breaking of bread, and in prayers.
43And fear came to be to every soul, and many wonders and miraculous signs occurred through the apostles.
44And all the believing ones were on the same place and had all things common.
45And they sold possessions and belongings and divided them to all, according as anyone had need.
46And according to a day continuing steadfastly with one mind in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they shared food in great joy and simplicity of heart,
47praising God, and having favor with all the people. And the Lord was adding to the assembly the ones being saved according to a day.
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