“Everyone Who Calls On The
Name Of The LORD Shall Be Saved.”
When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in
one place. And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a
violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. Divided
tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of them.
All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other
languages, and the Spirit gave them ability.
Now there were devout Jews from every nation under heaven living
in Jerusalem. And at this sound the crowd gathered
and was bewildered, because each one heard them speaking in the native language
of each. Amazed and astonished, they asked, “Are not all these who are speaking
Galileans? And how is it that we hear, each of us, in our own native language? Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and
residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya belonging to
Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, Cretans, and Arabs –
in our own languages we hear them speaking about God’s deeds of power.” All
were amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, “What does this mean?” But
others sneered and said, “They are filled with new wine.”
But Peter, standing with the eleven, raised his voice and
addressed them, “Men of Judea and all who live in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen
to what I say. Indeed, these are not drunk, as you supposed, for it is only nine o’clock in the morning. No, this is what was
spoken through the prophet Joel: ‘In the last days it will be, God declares,
that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters
shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall
dream dreams. Even upon my slaves, both men and women, in those days I will
pour out my Spirit; and they shall prophesy. And I will show portents in the
heaven above and signs on the earth below, blood, and fire, and smoky mist. The
sun shall be turned to darkness and the moon to blood, before the coming of the
Lord’s great and glorious day. Then everyone who calls on the name of the LORD
shall be saved.’
Acts 2:1-21