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and Peter having stood up with the eleven, lifted up his voice and declared to them, `Men, Jews! and all those dwelling in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and harken to my sayings,
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for these are not drunken, as ye take it up, for it is the third hour of the day.
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`But this is that which hath been spoken through the prophet Joel:
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And it shall be in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams;
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and also upon My men-servants, and upon My maid-servants, in those days, I will pour out of My Spirit, and they shall prophesy;
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and I will give wonders in the heaven above, and signs upon the earth beneath -- blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke,
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the sun shall be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the coming of the day of the Lord -- the great and illustrious;
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and it shall be, every one -- whoever shall call upon the name of the Lord, he shall be saved.
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`Men, Israelites! hear these words, Jesus the Nazarene, a man approved of God among you by mighty works, and wonders, and signs, that God did through him in the midst of you, according as also ye yourselves have known;
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this one, by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, being given out, having taken by lawless hands, having crucified -- ye did slay;
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whom God did raise up, having loosed the pains of the death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it,