Daily Bible GNT June 4 Verses

Peter's Message

¹⁴Then Peter stood up with the other eleven apostles and in a loud voice began to speak to the crowd: "Fellow Jews and all of you who live in Jerusalem, listen to me and let me tell you what this means. ¹⁵These people are not drunk, as you suppose; it is only nine o'clock in the morning. ¹⁶Instead, this is what the prophet Joel spoke about:

¹⁷'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.

¹⁸Yes, even on my servants, both men and women,

I will pour out my Spirit in those days,

and they will proclaim my message.

¹⁹I will perform miracles in the sky above

and wonders on the earth below.

There will be blood, fire, and thick smoke;

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the sun will be darkened,

and the moon will turn red as blood,

before the great and glorious Day of the Lord comes.

²¹And then, whoever calls out to the Lord for help will be saved.'

²²"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. ²³In 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. ²⁴But God raised him from death, setting him free from its power, because it was impossible that death should hold him prisoner. ²⁵For David said about him,

'I saw the Lord before me at all times;

he is near me, and I will not be troubled.

²⁶And so I am filled with gladness,

and my words are full of joy.

And I, mortal though I am,

will rest assured in hope,

²⁷because you will not abandon me in the world of the dead;

you will not allow your faithful servant to rot in the grave.

²⁸You have shown me the paths that lead to life,

and your presence will fill me with joy.'

²⁹"My friends, I must speak to you plainly about our famous ancestor King David. He died and was buried, and his grave is here with us to this very day. ³⁰He 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. ³¹David 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.'
³²God has raised this very Jesus from death, and we are all witnesses to this fact. ³³He 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. ³⁴For it was not David who went up into heaven; rather he said,

'The Lord said to my Lord:

Sit here at my right side

³⁵until I put your enemies as a footstool under your feet.'

³⁶"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!"

This reading is from The Holy Bible, Today's English Version, Second Edition copyright © American Bible Society, 1992;
Old Testament copyright © American Bible Society, 1976, 1992; New Testament © American Bible Society, 1966, 1971, 1976, 1992.

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