Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, ActsWeymouth, Richard Francis
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Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, Acts
Weymouth, Richard Francis
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002:011 Yet we all alike hear these Galilaeans speaking in our own
language about the wonderful things which God has done."
002:012 They were all astounded and bewildered, and asked one another,
"What can this mean?"
002:013 But others, scornfully jeering, said, "They are brim-full
of sweet wine."
002:014 Peter however, together with the Eleven, stood up and addressed
them in a loud voice. "Men of Judaea, and all you inhabitants
of Jerusalem," he said, "be in no uncertainty about this
matter but pay attention to what I say.
002:015 For this is not intoxication, as you suppose, it being only
the third hour of the day.
002:016 But that which was predicted through the Prophet Joel has happened:
002:017 "And it shall come to pass in the last days, God says,
that I will pour out My Spirit upon all mankind; and your sons
and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall
see visions, and your old men shall have dreams;
002:018 and even upon My bondservants, both men and women, at that time,
I will pour out My Spirit, and they shall prophesy.
002:019 I will display marvels in the sky above, and signs on the earth below,
blood and fire, and pillars of smoke.
002:020 The sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood,
to usher in the day of the Lord--that great and illustrious day;
002:021 and every one who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.'
002:022 "Listen, Israelites, to what I say. Jesus, the Nazarene,
a man accredited to you from God by miracles and marvels
and signs which God did among you through Him, as you
yourselves know, Him--
002:023 delivered up through God's settled purpose and foreknowledge--
you by the hands of Gentiles have nailed to a cross and have
put to death.
002:024 But God has raised Him to life, having terminated the throes
of death, for in fact it was not possible for Him to be held
fast by death.
002:025 For David says in reference to Him, "`I constantly fixed my
eyes upon the Lord, because He is at my right hand in order
that I may continue unshaken.
002:026 For this reason my heart is glad and my tongue exults.
My body also shall rest in hope.
002:027 For Thou wilt not leave me in the Unseen World forsaken,
nor give up Thy holy One to undergo decay.
002:028 Thou hast made known to me the ways of Life: Thou wilt fill
me with gladness in Thy presence.'
002:029 "As to the patriarch David, I need hardly remind you, brethren,
that he died and was buried, and that we still have his
tomb among us.
002:030 Being a Prophet, however, and knowing that God had solemnly
sworn to him to seat a descendant of his upon his throne,
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