Acts 10:45 → Joel 2:28-29

"The gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles" (Acts 10:45). Luke's verb "poured out" (echoing Acts 2:17-18, 33) reaches back through Peter's Pentecost sermon to its source in Joel: "I will pour out My Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions" (Joel 2:28-29). Joel promised an outpouring that would fall on old and young, menservants and maidservants — a democratizing of the Spirit beyond the prophets and kings of the old order. At Cornelius's house that "all people" is shown to include the nations: the Gentiles receive the identical gift, sealing them as full members of the new-covenant community not by ethnic descent but by Spirit-wrought faith. The connection is promise-fulfillment reaching its widest term — the Spirit whom the Father poured out through the exalted Christ (Acts 2:33) now poured out on Gentile flesh, so that the covenant sign of the last days rests on all who believe.