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But Peter standing vp with the eleuen, lift vp his voyce, and said vnto them, Ye men of Iudea, & all ye that dwell at Hierusalem, be this knowen vnto you, and hearken to my words:

For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third houre of the day.

But this is that which was spoken by the Prophet Ioel,

And it shall come to passe in the last dayes (saith God) I will powre out of my Spirit vpon all flesh: and your sonnes and your daughters shall prophesie, and your yong men shall see visions, and your old men shall dreame dreames:

And on my seruants, and on my handmaidens, I will powre out in those daies of my Spirit, and they shall prophesie:

And I wil shew wonders in heauen aboue, and signes in the earth beneath: blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke.

The Sunne shall be turned into darkenesse, and the Moone into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come.

And it shall come to passe, that whosoeuer shall call on the Name of the Lord, shalbe saued.

Yee men of Israel, heare these words, Iesus of Nazareth, a man approued of God among you, by miracles, wonders, and signes, which God did by him in the midst of you, as yee your selues also know:

Him, being deliuered by the determinate counsell and foreknowledge of God, yee haue taken, and by wicked hands, haue crucified, and slaine:

Whom God hath raised vp, hauing loosed the paines of death: because it was not possible that hee should be holden of it.

For Dauid speaketh concerning him, I foresaw the Lord alwayes before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moued.

Therefore did my heart reioyce, and my tongue was glad: Moreouer also, my flesh shall rest in hope,

Because thou wilt not leaue my soule in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy one to see corruption.

Thou hast made knowen to mee the wayes of life, thou shalt make mee full of ioy with thy countenance.

Men and brethren, let me freely speake vnto you of the Patriarch Dauid, that he is both dead & buried, and his sepulchre is with vs vnto this day:

Therefore being a Prophet, and knowing that God had sworne with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loines, according to the flesh, hee would raise vp Christ, to sit on his throne:

He seeing this before, spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soule was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.

This Iesus hath God raised vp, whereof we all are witnesses.

Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and hauing receiued of the Father the promise of the holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and heare.

For Dauid is not ascended into the heauens, but he saith himselfe, The Lord said vnto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,

Untill I make thy foes thy footstoole.

Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Iesus, whom ye haue crucified, both Lord and Christ.