Skutky 2

1 Keď prišiel deň Turíc, boli všetci vedno na tom istom mieste.2 Tu sa náhle strhol hukot z neba, ako keď sa ženie prudký vietor, a naplnil celý dom, v ktorom boli.3 I zjavili sa im akoby ohnivé jazyky, ktoré sa rozdelili, a na každom z nich spočinul jeden.4 Všetkých naplnil Duch Svätý a začali hovoriť inými jazykmi, ako im Duch dával hovoriť.5 V Jeruzaleme boli Židia, nábožní ľudia zo všetkých národov, čo sú pod nebom.6 Keď sa teda strhol tento hukot, mnoho sa ich zbehlo a boli zmätení, lebo každý ich počul hovoriť svojím jazykom.7 I stŕpli a udivení vraveli: „Nie sú títo všetci, čo tu hovoria, Galilejčania?8 A ako to, že ich každý z nás počuje vo svojom vlastnom jazyku, v ktorom sme sa narodili?9 My, Parti, Médi, Elamčania, obyvatelia Mezopotámie, Judey a Kappadócie, Pontu a Ázie,10 Frýgie a Pamfýlie, Egypta a líbyjských krajov okolo Cyrény, prisťahovaní Rimania,11 Židia aj prozelyti, Kréťania i Arabi: počujeme ich vo svojich jazykoch hovoriť o veľkých Božích skutkoch.“12 Všetci žasli a v rozpakoch si vraveli: „Čo to má znamenať?“13 Ale iní s úsmeškom hovorili: „Sú plní mladého vína.“14 Tu vystúpil Peter s Jedenástimi a zvýšeným hlasom im povedal: „Mužovia judejskí a všetci, čo bývate v Jeruzaleme, aby vám toto bolo známe, počúvajte moje slová.15 Títo nie sú opití, ako si myslíte! Veď je len deväť hodín ráno.16 Ale toto je to, čo povedal prorok Joel:17 »V posledných dňoch, hovorí Boh, vylejem zo svojho Ducha na každé telo: vaši synovia a vaše dcéry budú prorokovať, vaši mladíci budú mať videnia a vaši starci budú snívať sny.18 Aj na svojich služobníkov a na svoje služobníčky vylejem v tých dňoch zo svojho Ducha a budú prorokovať.19 Budem robiť divy hore na nebi a znamenia dolu na zemi, krv, oheň a oblaky dymu;20 slnko sa premení na tmu a mesiac na krv, skôr, ako príde Pánov deň, veľký a slávny.21 A vtedy: Každý, kto bude vzývať Pánovo meno, bude spasený.«22 Mužovia, Izraeliti, počujte tieto slová: Boh u vás potvrdil muža, Ježiša Nazaretského, mocnými činmi, divmi a znameniami, ktoré, ako sami viete, Boh skrze neho medzi vami urobil.23 A vy ste ho, vydaného podľa presného Božieho zámeru a predvídania, rukami bezbožníkov pribili na kríž a zavraždili.24 Ale Boh ho vzkriesil a zbavil múk smrti, lebo ho nemohla držať vo svojej moci.25 Veď Dávid o ňom hovorí: »Pána mám vždy pred očami, lebo je po mojej pravici, aby som sa nezakolísal.26 Preto sa raduje moje srdce a môj jazyk plesá, aj moje telo odpočíva v nádeji.27 Lebo nenecháš moju dušu v podsvetí a nedovolíš, aby tvoj Svätý videl porušenie.28 Ukázal si mi cestu života, naplníš ma radosťou pred svojou tvárou.«29 Bratia, dovoľte mi otvorene vám povedať o praotcovi Dávidovi, že zomrel, pochovali ho a jeho hrob je u nás až do dnešného dňa.30 Ale on bol prorok a vedel, že Boh sa mu prísahou zaviazal posadiť potomka z jeho bedier na jeho trón;31 videl do budúcnosti a povedal o Kristovom vzkriesení, že ani nebol ponechaný v podsvetí, ani jeho telo nevidelo porušenie.32 Tohto Ježiša Boh vzkriesil a my všetci sme toho svedkami.33 Božia pravica ho povýšila, a keď od Otca dostal prisľúbeného Ducha Svätého, vylial ho, ako sami vidíte a počujete.34 Veď Dávid nevystúpil na nebesia, a predsa hovorí: »Pán povedal môjmu Pánovi: Seď po mojej pravici,35 kým nepoložím tvojich nepriateľov za podnožku tvojim nohám.«36 Nech teda s istotou vie celý dom Izraela, že toho Ježiša, ktorého ste vy ukrižovali, Boh urobil aj Pánom, aj Mesiášom.“37 Keď to počuli, bolesť im prenikla srdce a povedali Petrovi a ostatným apoštolom: „Čo máme robiť, bratia?“38 Peter im povedal: „Robte pokánie a nech sa dá každý z vás pokrstiť v mene Ježiša Krista na odpustenie svojich hriechov a dostanete dar Svätého Ducha.39 Veď to prisľúbenie patrí vám a vašim deťom i všetkým, čo sú ďaleko, všetkým, ktorých si povolá Pán, náš Boh.“40 A ešte mnohými inými slovami ich zaprisahával a povzbudzoval: „Zachráňte sa z tohto zvrhlého pokolenia!“41 Oni prijali jeho slovo a dali sa pokrstiť; a v ten deň sa pridalo asi tritisíc duší.42 Vytrvalo sa zúčastňovali na učení apoštolov a na bratskom spoločenstve, na lámaní chleba a na modlitbách.43 Všetkých sa zmocňovala bázeň; prostredníctvom apoštolov sa dialo množstvo divov a znamení.44 Všetci, čo uverili, boli pospolu a všetko mali spoločné.45 Predávali pozemky a majetky a rozdeľovali ich všetkým, podľa toho, ako kto potreboval.46 Deň čo deň svorne zotrvávali v chráme, po domoch lámali chlieb a s radosťou a úprimným srdcom požívali pokrm.47 Chválili Boha a boli milí všetkému ľudu. A Pán každý deň rozmnožoval tých, čo mali byť spasení.

ACTS 2

The Coming of the Holy Spirit

1  t On the day of Pentecostt all the Lord's followers were together in one place. 2 Suddenly there was a noise from heaven like the sound of a mighty wind! It filled the house where they were meeting. 3 Then they saw what looked like fiery tongues moving in all directions, and a tongue came and settled on each person there.

4 The Holy Spirit took control of everyone, and they began speaking whatever languages the Spirit let them speak.
5 Many religious Jews from every country in the world were living in Jerusalem. 6 And when they heard this noise, a crowd gathered. But they were surprised, because they were hearing everything in their own languages.

7 They were excited and amazed, and said:
Don't all these who are speaking come from Galilee? 8 Then why do we hear them speaking our very own languages? 9 Some of us are from Parthia, Media, and Elam. Others are from Mesopotamia, Judea, Cappadocia, Pontus, Asia, 10 Phrygia, Pamphylia, Egypt, parts of Libya near Cyrene, Rome,

11 Crete, and Arabia. Some of us were born Jews, and others of us have chosen to be Jews. Yet we all hear them using our own languages to tell the wonderful things God has done.

12 Everyone was excited and confused. Some of them even kept asking each other, “What does all this mean?”

13 Others made fun of the Lord's followers and said, “They are drunk.”

Peter Speaks to the Crowd

14 Peter stood with the eleven apostles and spoke in a loud and clear voice to the crowd:
Friends and everyone else living in Jerusalem, listen carefully to what I have to say! 15 You are wrong to think that these people are drunk. After all, it is only nine o'clock in the morning.

16 But this is what God told the prophet Joel to say,

17  t “When the last days come,
I will give my Spirit
to everyone.
Your sons and daughters
will prophesy.
Your young men
will see visions,
and your old men
will have dreams.

18 In those days I will give
my Spirit to my servants,
both men and women,
and they will prophesy.

19 I will work miracles
in the sky above
and wonders
on the earth below.
There will be blood and fire
and clouds of smoke.

20 The sun will turn dark,
and the moon
will be as red as blood
before the great
and wonderful day
of the Lord appears.

21 Then the Lord
will save everyone
who asks for his help.”
22 Now, listen to what I have to say about Jesus from Nazareth. God proved he sent Jesus to you by having him work miracles, wonders, and signs. All of you know this. 23 t God had already planned and decided that Jesus would be handed over to you. So you took him and had evil men put him to death on a cross. 24 t But God set him free from death and raised him to life. Death could not hold him in its power.

25 t What David said are really the words of Jesus,
“I always see the Lord
near me,
and I will not be afraid
with him at my right side.

26 Because of this,
my heart will be glad,
my words will be joyful,
and I will live in hope.

27 The Lord won't leave me
in the grave.
I am his holy one,
and he won't let
my body decay.

28 He has shown me
the path to life,
and he makes me glad
by being near me.”
29 My friends, it is right for me to speak to you about our ancestor David. He died and was buried, and his tomb is still here.

30 t But David was a prophet, and he knew that God had made a promise he would not break. He had told David someone from his own family would someday be king.
31 David knew this would happen, and so he told us Christ would be raised to life. He said God would not leave him in the grave or let his body decay.

32 All of us can tell you that God has raised Jesus to life!

33 Jesus was taken up to sit at the right sidet of God, and he was given the Holy Spirit, just as the Father had promised. Jesus is also the one who has given the Spirit to us, and this is what you are now seeing and hearing.
34  t David didn't go up to heaven. So he wasn't talking about himself when he said, “The Lord told my Lord to sit at his right side, 35 until he made my Lord's enemies into a footstool for him.”

36 Everyone in Israel should then know for certain that God has made Jesus both Lord and Christ, even though you put him to death on a cross.

37 When the people heard this, they were very upset. They asked Peter and the other apostles, “Friends, what should we do?”
38 Peter said to them, “Turn to God and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

39 This promise is for you and your children. It is for everyone our Lord God will choose, no matter where they live.”
40 Peter told them many other things as well. Then he said, “I beg you to save yourselves from what will happen to all these evil people.” 41 On that day about 3,000 believed his message and were baptized.

42 They spent their time learning from the apostles, and they were like family to each other. They also broke breadt and prayed together.

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