14 Então Pedro, avançando com os onze apóstolos, falou à multidão: Escutem, forasteiros e moradores de Jerusalém! Há quem esteja aí a dizer que estes homens se embriagaram! Não é verdade! Seria demasiado cedo para isso! São apenas nove horas da manhã! Não! Aquilo a que acabam de assistir foi predito há séculos pelo profeta Joel:
22 Gente de Israel, ouçam! Deus deu público testemunho de Jesus de Nazaré com os espantosos milagres que através dele realizou, como bem sabem. Mas, de acordo com o seu plano, deixou que vocês se servissem de mãos de injustos para o pregarem na cruz e o assassinarem. Porém, Deus libertou-o dos horrores da morte, trazendo-o de novo à vida, pois a morte não poderia ter prendido este homem.
29 Irmãos, permitam que vos diga isto com toda a clareza - o nosso antepassado David não se referia a si próprio, pois morreu e foi sepultado, e o seu túmulo ainda o temos entre nós! Mas era profeta e sabia que Deus tinha prometido com juramento que um dos seus descendentes seria o Messias e se sentaria no seu trono.
31 David previa e anunciava assim a ressurreição de Cristo, dizendo dele que a sua alma não ficaria no mundo dos mortos e que o seu corpo não conheceria a podridão.
32 Referia-se, pois, a Jesus, e todos nós somos testemunhas de que Deus o ressuscitou dos mortos, encontrando-se agora no lugar de honra no céu, à direita de Deus. E, cumprindo a promessa que fizera, o Pai deu-lhe autoridade para enviar o Espírito Santo, com os resultados que hoje estão a ver e a ouvir.
36 Portanto, declaro a todos em Israel que Deus fez deste Jesus, que vocês crucificaram, o Senhor e o Messias!
37 Estas palavras de Pedro causaram tanta convicção que o povo lhe disse a ele e aos outros apóstolos: Irmãos, que devemos fazer?
38 E Pedro respondeu: Cada um deve arrepender-se do seu pecado, converter-se a Deus e ser baptizado em nome de Jesus Cristo, para perdão dos pecados. E então receberão também este dom do Espírito Santo,c
39 pois Cristo prometeu-o a todos quantos ouvirem a chamada do Senhor nosso Deus, tanto vocês como os vossos filhos, e até os que estão em terras distantes!
40 Pedro continuou com persuasão a falar-lhes de Jesus, e insistia para que se salvassem, se livrassem dos males do seu tempo.
41 Aqueles que creram nas palavras de Pedro foram baptizados, cerca de três mil ao todo, e juntaram-se aos outros crentes, participando regularmente no ensino administrado pelos apóstolos, na união fraterna, no partir do pão e nas orações.
14 But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and spoke forth to them, [saying], Men, Jews, and all you{} who dwell at Jerusalem, let this be known to you{}, and give ear to my words.
15 For these are not drunk, as you{} suppose; seeing it is [but] the third hour of the day.
16 But this is that which has been spoken through the prophet Joel:
17 And it will be in the last days, says God, I will pour out from my Spirit on all flesh: And your{} sons and your{} daughters will prophesy, And your{} young men will see visions, And your{} old men will dream dreams:
18 Yes and on my male slaves and on my female slaves in those days I will pour forth of my Spirit; and they will prophesy.
19 And I will show wonders in the heaven above, And signs on the earth beneath; Blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke:
20 The sun will be turned into darkness, And the moon into blood, Before the day of the Lord comes, That great and notable [day].
21 And it will be, that everyone who will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.
22 Men, Israelites, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God to you{} by mighty works and wonders and signs which God did by him among you{}, even as you{} yourselves know;
23 him, being delivered up by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, you{} by the hand of lawless men crucified and slew:
24 whom God raised up, having loosed the pangs of death: because it was not possible that he should be held of it.
25 For David says concerning him, I saw the Lord always before my face; For he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved:
26 Therefore my heart was glad, and my tongue rejoiced; Moreover my flesh also will dwell in hope:
27 Because you will not leave my soul to Hades, Neither will you give your Holy One to see corruption.
28 You made known to me the ways of life; You will make me full of gladness with your countenance.
29 Men, brothers, I may say to you{} freely of the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.
30 Being therefore a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins he would set [one] on his throne;
31 he foreseeing [this] spoke of the resurrection of the Christ, that neither was he left to Hades, nor did his flesh see corruption.
32 This Jesus, God raised up, of which we all are witnesses.
33 Being therefore by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this, which you{} both see and hear.
34 For David did not ascend into the heavens: but he says himself, Yahweh said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand,
35 Until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet.
36 Let all the house of Israel therefore know assuredly, that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you{} crucified.
37 Now when they heard [this,] they were pricked in their heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, Men, brothers, what shall we do?
38 And Peter says to them, Repent{}, and be baptized each of you{} in the name of Jesus Christ to the remission of your{} sins; and you{} will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
39 For to you{} is the promise, and to your{} children, and to all who are far off, [even] as many as Yahweh our God will call to him.
40 And with many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, Save yourselves from this crooked generation.
41 Then they who received his word were baptized: and there were added [to them] in that day about three thousand souls.