Behold, I will bring forth to you the utterance of my breath, and I will instruct you in my speech.

until the Spirit shall come upon you from on high, and Carmel shall be desert, and Carmel shall be counted for a forest.

For I will give water to the thirsty that walk in a dry land; I will put My Spirit upon your seed, and My blessings upon your children;

And I will no more turn away My face from them, because I have poured out My wrath upon the house of Israel, says the Lord God.

(But this He spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those believing in Him were about to receive; for the Holy Spirit was not yet [given], because Jesus was not yet glorified.)

"But this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:

"And on My menservants and on My maidservants I will pour out My Spirit in those days; and they shall prophesy.

And the glory of the Lord shall appear, and all flesh shall see the salvation of God; for the Lord has spoken [it].

And He said to me, [It is] a great thing for you to be called My servant, to establish the tribes of Jacob, and to recover the dispersion of Israel; behold, I have given you for the covenant of a race, for a light of the Gentiles, that you should be for salvation to the end of the earth.

And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Spirit of grace and compassion: and they shall look upon Me, because they have mocked Me, and they shall make lamentation for Him, as for a beloved [friend], and they shall grieve intensely, as for a firstborn son.

and all flesh shall see the salvation of God.'"

And suddenly a sound came out of heaven, as being borne along by a violent wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting.

And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak in different languages, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell upon all those hearing the word.

For they heard them speaking in tongues and magnifying God. Then Peter answered,

"And when I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them, as also on us in the beginning.

"If then God has given to them the same gift as He gave to us, when we believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I [to be] able to hinder God?"

And after much dispute, Peter arose and said to them: "Men, brothers, you know that from early days God chose among us, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel and believe.

And God, the knower of hearts, bore witness to them by giving them the Holy Spirit, just as also [He did] to us,

And [I will cause] all your sons [to be] taught of God, and your children [to be] in great peace.

Now this man had four virgin daughters who prophesied.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

And Joseph dreamed a dream, and told it to his brothers.

I thought you were binding sheaves in the middle of the field, and my sheaf stood up and was erected, and your sheaves turned round, and bowed down to my sheaf.

And he dreamed another dream, and told it to his father, and to his brothers, and said, Behold, I have dreamed another dream: and this time, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars bowed down to me.

And He said to them, Hear My words: If there should be a prophet among you of the Lord, I will be made known to him in a vision, and in sleep will I speak to him.

The prophet who has a dream, let him tell his dream; and [he] in whom is My word [spoken] to him, let him tell My word truly. What is the chaff to the wheat? So are My words, says the Lord.