The New English Bible; 44; Acts ?-Acts 2:47

acts of the apostles the beginnings of the church in the first part of my words the offer was i wrote all that jesus did and taught from the beginning until the day when after giving instructions through the holy spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen he was taken up to heaven he showed himself to these men after his death and gave apple proof that he was alive or would a period of forty days he appeared to them and taught them about the kingdom of god while he was in that company he told them not to leave jerusalem you must wait he said for the promise made by my father about which you have heard me speak drawn as you know up ties with water but you will be baptized with the holy spirit and within the next few days

so when they were all together they asked him lord is this the time when you were to establish once again the sovereignty of israel he answered it is not for you to know about dates or times which the father has said that within his own control but you'll receive power when the holy spirit comes upon you and you will bear witness for me in jerusalem and all over judea and some area and a way to the ends of the earth when he had said this as they watched he was lifted up and upload removed him from their site as he was going and as they were gazing intently into the sky all at once there stood beside them two main informant who saved man of galilee why stand there looking up into the sky this jesus who has

been taken away from you up to heaven will come in the same week as you have seen him go then they returned to jerusalem from the hill called all of it which is near jerusalem no father and i sat with these gimmick entering the city they went to the room upstairs where they were logging beat her and john and james and andrew philip and thomas bartholomew and matthew james son of orpheus and simon resentment and judas son of james all these were constantly a prayer together and with them a group of women including mary the mother of jesus and his brothers it was during this time that peter stood up before the assembled brotherhood about one hundred

and twenty in all and same my friends the prophecy and scripture was bound to come through which the holy spirit through the mouth of david uttered about judas who acted as going to those who were arrested jesus for he was one of our number and had his place in this ministry this judas be noted after buying a plot of land with the price of his villain a failed forward on the ground and burst open so that his employee owes sport don't this became known to everyone in jerusalem and renamed the property in their own language and killed demond which means of blood it at the text i have in mind peter continued is in the book of sam's read his homestead florida so that let them be known to inhabit it and again let another takeover his

charge therefore one of those who bore us company all the while we have the more geezers with us coming and going from jon's ministry of baptism until the deed when he was taken up from us one of those most notorious as a witness to his resurrection two names were put forward joseph who was known as persepolis and board of the added name of justice and the science then they paid and sand no morbid who know us the hearts of warm in the care which of these too though has chosen to receive this office of ministry and apostles ship which do this abandoned to go where he belonged they drew lots and the lord to fail on matthias who was then assigned the police among the twelve apostles while the day of

pentecost was running its course they were all together in one place when suddenly that came from the sports guy a noise like that of a strong a driving wind which filled the hall house where they were sitting and that appeared to them terms like finian's of fire dispersed among them and resting on each one and they were all filled with the holy spirit and began to talk in other times as the spirit gave them power of veterans now that we're living in jerusalem devout jews drawn from every nation under heaven and at this sound the ground gathered all bewildered because each one had the apostles talking in his own language they were amazed and in their astonishment explained why they're all got millions of a lot these

men were speaking how is it then that we hear them each of us in his own native language parsi means even mites inhabitants of mesopotamia over judea and capital ship of thompson's and asia of figure and brazilian of egypt and the districts of libya and i was having me visitors from rome both jews and press the lights regions and arabs we hear them telling an hour or nine times the great things god has done and they were amazed and perplexed saying to one another what can this mean others say and contemptuous late they have been drinking but peter stood up with the eleven raised his voice and address fellow jews and all who live in jerusalem mock this and give me i hearing these men are not drunk as you imagine for it is only nine in the morning though

this is what the prophet spoke of god says this will happen in the last days i will pour out upon everyone a portion of my spirit and your sons and daughters shall prophesied you're young man shall see visions and your old man shouldering dreams yes i will and you even my sleeves both maine and woman with a portion of my spirit and the show prophesied and i will show port to save the sky above and signs on the earth below blood and fire and lifting small the sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon the blood before that great resplendent day the day of the lord shall come and then everyone who invokes the name of the lord shall be saved men of israel listen to me i speak of jesus of nazareth a man

singled out by god and made known to you through american sport and some signs which god worked among you threw him as you well know when he had been given up to you by the deliberate will and plan of god you used he's a man to crucify and kill him but god raised him to life again setting him freed from the pangs of death because it could not be that death should keep him and it scored for david says of him i fought so that the presence of the lord would be with me always for he isn't my right hand so that i may not be shaken that thought my heart was glad and my tongue spoke with joy moreover my flesh shall do well in the cold follow will not abandon my soul davies normally it by loyal servant suffer corruption no has shown

make the ways of life that would soon be with gladness by my presence let me tell you played live my friends that the patriarch david died and was buried and his tomb is here to this very day it is clear that for that he spoke as a prophet who knew that god had swarmed to him that one of his own direct descendants should sit on his throne and when he said he was not abandoned to hades and his flesh never suffered corruption he spoke with four knowledge of the resurrection of the messiah the jesus we speak of has been raised by god as we can all been witness exalted less with god's right hand he received the holy spirit from the father as was promised and all but you know see

and hear floats from him for it was not david who went up to heaven his own words are the lord said to my lord sit at my right hand until i make your enemies your food store bedwell israel than accept as certain that god has made this jesus called new crucified both lord and messiah when they have this they would cut to the heart and said to be dirty and the apostles friends what are we to do repent said peter repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of jesus as the messiah for the forgiveness of your sins and you will receive the gift of the holy spirit from the promise is to you and to your children and toward fire we everyone who of the lord our god they call

in these and many other words he praised his case and pleaded with them save yourselves he said from this crooked h then those who accepted his word where bob ties and some three thousand when added to that number that day they made mitt constantly to hear the apostles teach and to share the common life to break bread and to pray since the war was everywhere and many marvels and signs were brought about through the apostles or two cities have drawn them together and everything and calm they would sell their property and positions and make a general distribution as the need of the age required with one mind they kept up their daily attendance of the tempo and breaking bread in private

homes is shared their meals with an affected joy as they praise god and enjoyed the favor of the whole people and day by day the lord added to that number those whom he was saving the reading has concluded at the forty sevens that's all the second chapter of the acts of the apostles