Study Desk

And it will be in the last days, says God,that I will pour out my Spirit on all people;then your sons and your daughters will prophesy,your young men will see visions,and your old men will dream dreams.

“Fellow Israelites, listen to these words: This Jesus of Nazareth was a man attested to you by God with miracles, wonders, and signs that God did among you through him, just as you yourselves know.

God raised him up, ending the pains of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by death.

Since he was a prophet, he knew that God had sworn an oath to him to seat one of his descendants on his throne.

“God has raised this Jesus; we are all witnesses of this.

Therefore, since he has been exalted to the right hand of God and has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit, he has poured out what you both see and hear.

“Therefore let all the house of Israel know with certainty that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Messiah.”

For the promise is for you and for your children, and for all who are far off, as many as the Lord our God will call.”

praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. Every day the Lord added to their number those who were being saved.

So he jumped up and started to walk, and he entered the temple with them—walking, leaping, and praising God.

All the people saw him walking and praising God,

The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our ancestors, has glorified his servant Jesus, whom you handed over and denied before Pilate, though he had decided to release him.

You killed the source of life, whom God raised from the dead; we are witnesses of this.

In this way God fulfilled what he had predicted through all the prophets—that his Messiah would suffer.

Heaven must receive him until the time of the restoration of all things, which God spoke about through his holy prophets from the beginning.

Moses said: The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers and sisters. You must listen to everything he tells you.

You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your ancestors, saying to Abraham, And all the families of the earth will be blessed through your offspring.

God raised up his servant and sent him first to you to bless you by turning each of you from your evil ways.”

let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified and whom God raised from the dead—by him this man is standing here before you healthy.

Peter and John answered them, “Whether it’s right in the sight of God for us to listen to you rather than to God, you decide;