Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,

Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent,

testifying both to Jews, and also to Greeks, repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

but declared first to those in Damascus and in Jerusalem, and throughout all the region of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent, turn to God, and do works befitting repentance.

and saying, Repent, for the kingdom of Heaven has drawn near!

Therefore bring forth fruits worthy of repentance,

and do not think to say within yourselves, We have Abraham as our father. For I say to you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.

From that time Jesus began to preach and to say, Repent, for the kingdom of Heaven has drawn near.

But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first and said, Son, go, work today in my vineyard.

And he came to the second and said likewise. And he answered and said, I go, sir, but he did not go.

For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him; but tax collectors and harlots believed him; and when you saw it, you did not afterward repent and believe him.

Then all the tax collectors and the sinners came near to Him to hear Him.

So He spoke this parable to them, saying:

And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing.

I say to you that likewise there will be more joy in Heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine just persons who need no repentance.

And when she has found it, she calls her friends and neighbors together, saying, Rejoice with me, for I have found the piece which I lost!

Then He said: A certain man had two sons.

And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together, journeyed to a far country, and there wasted his possessions with prodigal living.

And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.

But when he came to himself, he said, How many of my father's hired servants have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger.

and I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants.

And the son said to him, Father, I have sinned against Heaven and in your sight, and am no longer worthy to be called your son.

And bring the fatted calf here and kill it, and let us eat and be merry;

Now his older son was in the field. And as he came and drew near to the house, he heard music and dancing.

And he said to him, Your brother has come, and because he has received him safe and sound, your father has killed the fatted calf.

So he answered and said to his father, Lo, these many years I have been serving you; I never transgressed your commandment at any time; and yet you never gave me a young goat, that I might make merry with my friends.

And he said to him, Son, you are always with me, and all that I have is yours.

and that repentance and remission of sins be preached in His name to all nations, beginning out of Jerusalem.

Now as they went down the road, they came upon some water. And the eunuch said, See, here is water. What prevents me from being immersed?

So he commanded the chariot to stand still. And both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water, and he immersed him.

And when she and her household were immersed, she begged us, saying, If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house and stay. So she persuaded us.

So they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.

And he took them the same hour of the night and washed their stripes. And immediately he and all his family were immersed.

And now why are you waiting? Arise and be immersed, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.

not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,

There is also an antitype which now saves us; immersion (not the removal of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God), through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

But when they believed Philip as he preached the things concerning the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, both men and women were immersed.

For as yet He had not fallen on any of them. They had only been immersed in the name of the Lord Jesus.

And he commanded them to be immersed in the name of the Lord. Then they asked him to stay a few days.

Then Paul said, John indeed immersed with an immersion of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe on Him who would come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus.

When they heard this, they were immersed in the name of the Lord Jesus.

Go therefore and instruct all the nations, immersing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

Or do you not know that as many of us as were immersed into Christ Jesus were immersed into His death?

Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you immersed into the name of Paul?

that no one should say that I had immersed into my name.

For Christ did not send me to immerse, but to preach the gospel, not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of no effect.

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.

who, when they had come down, prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit.

Then they laid hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.

While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell upon each one who heard the Word.

And those of the circumcision who were believers, as many as came with Peter, were amazed, because the gift of the Holy Spirit had also been poured out on the Gentiles.

until the Spirit is poured on us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is esteemed as a forest.

For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground. I will pour My spirit upon your seed, and My blessing upon your offspring;

and they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the watercourses.

As for Me, this is My covenant with them, says Jehovah; My Spirit that is upon you, and My Words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your seed, nor out of the mouth of your seed's seed, says Jehovah, from now on and forever.

Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean; I will cleanse you from all your defilement and from all your idols.

And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you shall keep My judgments and do them.

And I will not hide My face from them anymore; for I have poured out My Spirit on the house of Israel, declares the Lord Jehovah.

And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh. And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions.

And also I will pour out My Spirit on the menservants and on the maidservants in those days.

And I will pour on the house of David, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Spirit of grace and supplication. And they shall look on Me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for Him, as one mourns for an only son, and they shall be bitter over Him, like the bitterness over the firstborn.