Acts 2:32

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

He said to them, “Go into all the world, and preach the Good News to the whole creation.

in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of God’s Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and around as far as to Illyricum, I have fully preached the Good News of Christ;

Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

Stephen, full of faith and power, performed great wonders and signs among the people.

But I say, didn’t they hear? Yes, most certainly, “Their sound went out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.”

For John indeed baptized in water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”

even as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word delivered them to us,

That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we saw, and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life

I will tell of the decree: Yahweh said to me, “You are my son. Today I have become your father.

Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, “This is Yahweh’s word to Zerubbabel, saying, ‘Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says Yahweh of Armies.

This Good News of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.

Behold, I give you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy. Nothing will in any way hurt you.

For the Father judges no one, but he has given all judgment to the Son,

Saul was consenting to his death. A great persecution arose against the assembly which was in Jerusalem in that day. They were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except for the apostles.

For you will be a witness for him to all men of what you have seen and heard.

And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to the point of death, yes, the death of the cross.

Yahweh has made his holy arm bare in the eyes of all the nations. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

Yahweh, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the nations will come to you from the ends of the earth, and will say, “Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, vanity and things in which there is no profit.

If I say, I will not make mention of him, or speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones. I am weary with holding it in. I can’t.

But as for me, I am full of power by Yahweh’s Spirit, and of judgment, and of might, to declare to Jacob his disobedience, and to Israel his sin.

and saying, “You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross!”

Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads, and saying, “Ha! You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days,

They urged him, saying, “Stay with us, for it is almost evening, and the day is almost over.” He went in to stay with them.

You are witnesses of these things.

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father commanded me, even so I do. Arise, let’s go from here.

This is the disciple who testifies about these things, and wrote these things. We know that his witness is true.

if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as the Savior of the world.

All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to Yahweh. All the relatives of the nations shall worship before you.

“I will set a sign among them, and I will send those who escape of them to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to far-away islands, who have not heard my fame, nor have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the nations.

Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

For there is nothing hidden, except that it should be made known; neither was anything made secret, but that it should come to light.

“We heard him say, ‘I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and in three days I will build another made without hands.’ ”

The angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore also the holy one who is born from you will be called the Son of God.

Behold, I send out the promise of my Father on you. But wait in the city of Jerusalem until you are clothed with power from on high.”

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

not to all the people, but to witnesses who were chosen before by God, to us, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.

He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that this is he who is appointed by God as the Judge of the living and the dead.

but if they are questions about words and names and your own law, look to it yourselves. For I don’t want to be a judge of these matters.”

in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by Jesus Christ.

but for our sake also, to whom it will be accounted, who believe in him who raised Jesus, our Lord, from the dead,

Now God raised up the Lord, and will also raise us up by his power.

knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus, and will present us with you.

which he worked in Christ, when he raised him from the dead and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places,

having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.

and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead: Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.

Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead, and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope might be in God.

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”

whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.

and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, to which we are witnesses.

God exalted him with his right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins.

For so has the Lord commanded us, saying, ‘I have set you as a light for the Gentiles, that you should bring salvation to the uttermost parts of the earth.’ ”

beginning from the baptism of John, to the day that he was received up from us, of these one must become a witness with us of his resurrection.”

With great power, the apostles gave their testimony of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. Great grace was on them all.

We are witnesses of everything he did both in the country of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they also killed, hanging him on a tree.

Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”

No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down by myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father.”

You will also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.

about righteousness, because I am going to my Father, and you won’t see me any more;

for we can’t help telling the things which we saw and heard.”

The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you killed, hanging him on a tree.

We are his witnesses of these things; and so also is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.”

But God raised him from the dead,

and he was seen for many days by those who came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses to the people.

because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.”

but had certain questions against him about their own religion, and about one Jesus, who was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.

who was declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord,

Yes, we are also found false witnesses of God, because we testified about God that he raised up Christ, whom he didn’t raise up, if it is so that the dead are not raised.

Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,

Therefore I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and who will also share in the glory that will be revealed.

(and the life was revealed, and we have seen, and testify, and declare to you the life, the eternal life, which was with the Father, and was revealed to us);

I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.”