Acts 2:16

Simplified Cowboy Version

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

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 ,

Contextual Overview

¹⁴Then Pete stood up and said, "Listen up, all of you! Don't doubt what's happening here. ¹⁵These cowboys ain't drunk. Shoot, it's too early for that even for cowboys. ¹⁶No, what you are seeing here today is what the great cowboy Joel had predicted when God said through him, ¹⁷'Near the end, I will fill all kinds of folks with my Spirit. Sons and daughters will prophesy. Young men will have visions, and your old cowhands will dream dreams. ¹⁸My hands, both cowboys and cowgirls, will be filled with my Power and they will also prophesy. ¹⁹I will put on a show in the heavens and do mighty things on the earth below. There will be blood and fire and clouds of smoke. ²⁰The sun will shut off, and the moon will turn red when the Lord comes back. ²¹But everyone who asks Jesus to save them will be saved.' ²²"My fellow Israelites, God himself acknowledged the truth of Jesus Christ with miracles, signs, and wonders like this world has never seen. ²³He knew y'all would hand his boy over to evil people and they would have Jesus killed.

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

1 Timothy 4:4
Nothing is to be rejected if God made it and a man is thankful for the full belly.

1 Timothy 6:17
If a cowboy is rich, tell him not to think of himself as superior to any other cowboy. Money can come and go like a leaf in the wind. Teach him to trust only in God, not the things of this world. God will, and does, provide everything of importance we need to enjoy life.

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.