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‘This is what I will do in the last days, God says: I will pour out my Spirit on everyone. Your sons and daughters will proclaim my message; your young men will see visions, and your old men will have dreams.

"Listen to these words, fellow Israelites! Jesus of Nazareth was a man whose divine authority was clearly proven to you by all the miracles and wonders which God performed through him. You yourselves know this, for it happened here among you.

In accordance with his own plan God had already decided that Jesus would be handed over to you; and you killed him by letting sinful men crucify him.

But God raised him from death, setting him free from its power, because it was impossible that death should hold him prisoner.

He was a prophet, and he knew what God had promised him: God had made a vow that he would make one of David's descendants a king, just as David was.

David saw what God was going to do in the future, and so he spoke about the resurrection of the Messiah when he said, ‘He was not abandoned in the world of the dead; his body did not rot in the grave.'

God has raised this very Jesus from death, and we are all witnesses to this fact.

He has been raised to the right side of God, his Father, and has received from him the Holy Spirit, as he had promised. What you now see and hear is his gift that he has poured out on us.

"All the people of Israel, then, are to know for sure that this Jesus, whom you crucified, is the one that God has made Lord and Messiah!"

For God's promise was made to you and your children, and to all who are far away—all whom the Lord our God calls to himself."

praising God, and enjoying the good will of all the people. And every day the Lord added to their group those who were being saved.

he jumped up, stood on his feet, and started walking around. Then he went into the Temple with them, walking and jumping and praising God.

The people there saw him walking and praising God,

The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our ancestors, has given divine glory to his Servant Jesus. But you handed him over to the authorities, and you rejected him in Pilate's presence, even after Pilate had decided to set him free.

You killed the one who leads to life, but God raised him from death—and we are witnesses to this.

God announced long ago through all the prophets that his Messiah had to suffer; and he made it come true in this way.

Repent, then, and turn to God, so that he will forgive your sins. If you do,

He must remain in heaven until the time comes for all things to be made new, as God announced through his holy prophets of long ago.

For Moses said, ‘The Lord your God will send you a prophet, just as he sent me, and he will be one of your own people. You are to obey everything that he tells you to do.

The promises of God through his prophets are for you, and you share in the covenant which God made with your ancestors. As he said to Abraham, ‘Through your descendants I will bless all the people on earth.'