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and those from Crete, and Arabians. Lo, we hear them speak in our own languages the wonders of God.

It shall be in the last days, saith God, that I will pour my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons shall prophesy, and your daughters and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.

Men, sons of Israel, hear ye these words: Jesus the Nazarean, a man made manifest among you by God, by those deeds of power and prodigies which God wrought among you by his hand, as ye yourselves know;

him, being hereto appointed by the prescience and the good pleasure of God, ye have delivered into the hands of the wicked; and have crucified and slain.

But God hath resuscitated him, and hath loosed the cords of the grave; because it could not be, that he should be held in the grave.

For he was a prophet, and he knew, that God had sworn to him by an oath: Of the fruit of thy bowels, I will seat [fn] on thy throne.

This Jesus hath God resuscitated; and we all are his witnesses.

And he it is, who is exalted by the right hand of God, and hath received from the Father a promise respecting the Holy Spirit, and hath sent this gift which, lo, ye see and hear.

Therefore, let all the house of Israel know, assuredly, that God hath made that Jesus whom ye crucified, to be Lord and Messiah.

For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all those afar off whom God will call.

And they praised God, and had favor with all the people. And our Lord added daily to the assembly those who became alive.

And he sprang, stood up, and walked: and he entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.

And all the people saw him, as he walked and praised God.

The God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he would have justified him and set him free.

And that Prince of life ye slew; and him, hath God raised from the dead, and all of us are witnesses of it.

and God, according as he had previously announced by the mouth of all the prophets that the Messiah would suffer, hath in this manner fulfilled [fn] .

whom the heavens must retain, until the completion of the times of those things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of his holy prophets of old.

Ye are the children of the prophets: and that covenant which God made with our fathers, when he said to Abraham, that in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed,

he hath first established to you: and God hath sent his Son to bless you, if ye will be converted, and repent of your wickedness.

be it known to you, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Messiah the Nazarean, whom ye crucified, and whom God hath raised from the dead, lo, by him, doth this [fn] stand here before you recovered.