Acts 2:16

Literal Standard Version

But this is that which has been spoken through the prophet Joel:

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
On the contrary, this is what was spoken through the prophet Joel:

King James Version (1611)
But this is that which was spoken by the Prophet Ioel,

King James Version
But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel;

English Standard Version
But this is what was uttered through the prophet Joel:

New American Standard Bible
but this is what has been spoken through the prophet Joel:

New Century Version
But Joel the prophet wrote about what is happening here today:

Amplified Bible
but this is [the beginning of] what was spoken of through the prophet Joel:

New American Standard Bible (1995)
but this is what was spoken of through the prophet Joel:

Legacy Standard Bible
but this is what was spoken through the prophet Joel:

Berean Standard Bible
No, this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:

Contemporary English Version
But this is what God had the prophet Joel say,

Complete Jewish Bible
No, this is what was spoken about through the prophet Yo'el:

Darby Translation
but this is that which was spoken through the prophet Joel,

Easy-to-Read Version
But Joel the prophet wrote about what you see happening here today. This is what he wrote:

Geneva Bible (1587)
But this is that, which was spoken by the Prophet Ioel,

George Lamsa Translation
But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel:

Good News Translation
Instead, this is what the prophet Joel spoke about:

Lexham English Bible
But this is what was spoken through the prophet Joel:

Literal Translation
But this is that which has been spoken by the prophet Joel,

American Standard Version
but this is that which hath been spoken through the prophet Joel:

Bible in Basic English
But this is the thing which was said by the prophet Joel;

Hebrew Names Version
But this is what has been spoken through the prophet Yo'el:

International Standard Version
Rather, this is what was spoken through the prophet Joel:

Etheridge Translation
But this is that spoken of by Joel the prophet:

Murdock Translation
But this is what was spoken by Joel the prophet:

Bishop's Bible (1568)
But this is that which was spoken by the prophete Ioel:

English Revised Version
but this is that which hath been spoken by the prophet Joel;

World English Bible
But this is what has been spoken through the prophet Joel:

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel,

Weymouth's New Testament
But that which was predicted through the Prophet Joel has happened:

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
but this it is, that was seid bi the prophete Johel,

Update Bible Version
but this is that which has been spoken through the prophet Joel:

Webster's Bible Translation
But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel,

New English Translation
But this is what was spoken about through the prophet Joel:

New King James Version
But this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:

New Living Translation
No, what you see was predicted long ago by the prophet Joel:

New Life Bible
The early preacher Joel said this would happen.

New Revised Standard
No, this is what was spoken through the prophet Joel:

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But this is that which hath been spoken through the prophet Joel -

Douay-Rheims Bible
But this is that which was spoken of by the prophet Joel:

Revised Standard Version
but this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
But this is that which was spoken by ye Prophete Iohel:

Young's Literal Translation
`But this is that which hath been spoken through the prophet Joel:

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
but this is it, that was spoke before by the prophet Ioel:

Mace New Testament (1729)
but this is the accomplishment of what was said by the prophet Joel ,

Simplified Cowboy Version
No, what you are seeing here today is what the great cowboy Joel had predicted when God said through him,

Contextual Overview

¹⁴and Peter having stood up with the Eleven, lifted up his voice and declared to them: "Men—Jews, and all those dwelling in Jerusalem! Let this be known to you, and listen to my sayings, ¹⁵for these are not drunken, as you take it up, for it is the third hour of the day. ¹⁶But this is that which has been spoken through the prophet Joel:¹⁷And it will be in the last days, says God, || I will pour out of My Spirit on all flesh, || And your sons and your daughters will prophesy, || And your young men will see visions, || And your old men will dream dreams; ¹⁸And also on My menservants, and on My maidservants, || In those days, I will pour out of My Spirit, || And they will prophesy; ¹⁹And I will give wonders in the sky above, || And signs on the earth beneath—Blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke, ²⁰The sun will be turned to darkness, || And the moon to blood, || Before the coming of the Day of the LORD—the great and conspicuous; ²¹And it will be, everyone who, if he may have called on the Name of the LORD, will be saved. ²²Men, Israelites! Hear these words: Jesus the Nazarene, a man approved of God among you by mighty works, and wonders, and signs, that God did through Him in the midst of you, according as also you yourselves have known, ²³this One, by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, being given out, having been taken by lawless hands, having been crucified—you slew,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the prophet: Joel 2:28-32

Reciprocal: Ezekiel 37:14 - shall put Joel 1:1 - to Luke 4:21 - This day Acts 1:5 - but Acts 2:38 - and ye Acts 17:3 - Opening Ephesians 1:13 - holy

Cross-References

Genesis 2:1
And the heavens and the earth are completed, and all their host;

Genesis 2:2
and God completes by the seventh day His work which He has made, and ceases by the seventh day from all His work which He has made.

Genesis 2:9
and YHWH God causes to sprout from the ground every tree desirable for appearance, and good for food, and the Tree of Life in the midst of the garden, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.

1 Samuel 15:22
And Samuel says, "Has YHWH had delight in burnt-offerings and sacrifices as [in] listening to the voice of YHWH? Behold, listening is better than sacrifice; to give attention than fat of rams;

1 Timothy 4:4
because every creature of God [is] good, and nothing [is] to be rejected, with thanksgiving being received,

1 Timothy 6:17
Charge those rich in the present age not to be high-minded, nor to hope in the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, who is giving to us all things richly for enjoyment—

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel. This affair, which is a matter of wonder and amazement with some, and of speculation with others, and of ridicule and contempt with the most, not the effect of wine, but the fulfilment of a prophecy in Joel 2:28 and is that effusion of the Spirit there foretold; and this prophecy is by the Jews themselves allowed to belong to the world to come, or to the times of the Messiah. Some of their commentators o say, that it refers לעתיד, "to time to come"; by which they frequently mean the times of the Messiah; and another says p expressly, that they belong לימית המשיח, "to the days of the Messiah"; and in one of their Midrashes q it is observed, that

"the holy blessed God says in this world they prophesy single, (particular persons,) but "in the world to come" all "Israel" shall become prophets, as it is said, Joel 2:28 "and it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your old men", &c. So expounds R. Tanchums with R. Aba.''

o Jarchi in Joel ii. 28. & R. Jeshuah in Aben Ezra in loc. p R. David Kimchi in loc. q Bemidbar Rabba, sect. 15. fol. 219. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This is that - This is the fulfillment of that, or this was predicted. This was the second part of Peter’s argument, to show that this was in accordance with the predictions in their own Scriptures.

By the prophet Joel - Joel 2:28-32. This is not quoted literally, either from the Hebrew or the Septuagint. The substance, however, is preserved.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Acts 2:16. Spoken by the prophet Joel — The prophecy which he delivered so long ago is just now fulfilled; and this is another proof that Jesus whom ye have crucified is the Messiah.