Intertextuality Pair

Acts 2:14-36 → Joel 2:30

Quotation

Later text

Acts 2:14-36BSB

Then Peter stood up with the Eleven, lifted up his voice, and addressed the crowd: “Men of Judea and all who dwell in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen carefully to my words. These men are not drunk, as you suppose. It is only the third hour of the day! No, this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel: 'In the last days, God says, I will pour out My Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams. Even on My menservants and maidservants I will pour out My Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy. I will show wonders in the heavens above and signs on the earth below, blood and fire and billows of smoke. The sun will be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the coming of the great and glorious Day of the Lord. And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.’ Men of Israel, listen to this message: Jesus of Nazareth was a man certified by God to you by miracles, wonders, and signs, which God did among you through Him, as you yourselves know. He was delivered up by God’s set plan and foreknowledge, and you, by the hands of the lawless, put Him to death by nailing Him to the cross. But God raised Him from the dead, releasing Him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for Him to be held in its clutches. David says about Him: ‘I saw the Lord always before me; because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken. Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will dwell in hope, because You will not abandon my soul to Hades, nor will You let Your Holy One see decay. You have made known to me the paths of life; You will fill me with joy in Your presence.’ Brothers, I can tell you with confidence that the patriarch David died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day. But he was a prophet and knew that God had promised him on oath that He would place one of his descendants on his throne. Foreseeing this, David spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that He was not abandoned to Hades, nor did His body see decay. God has raised this Jesus to life, to which we are all witnesses. Exalted, then, to the right hand of God, He has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit and has poured out what you now see and hear. For David did not ascend into heaven, but he himself says: ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.”’ Therefore let all Israel know with certainty that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ!”

Earlier text

Joel 2:30BSB

I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke.

Significance

Peter opens his Pentecost sermon by declaring the strange events “what was spoken by the prophet Joel” (Acts 2:16), and the Joel oracle serves him doubly: it explains the Spirit’s outpouring and announces “the great and glorious Day of the Lord” with its “wonders in the heavens above and signs on the earth below” (Acts 2:19-20, citing Joel 2:30-31). Peter reads redemptive history as having reached its hinge — “the last days” (2:17) have dawned in the death, resurrection, and exaltation of Jesus. The Joel citation frames the sermon’s whole movement: from the Spirit poured out, to the crucified and risen Christ enthroned at God’s right hand (Psalm 16; Psalm 110), to the summons that “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved” (Joel 2:32; Acts 2:21). The cosmic signs and the outpoured Spirit alike testify that the age of fulfillment has come, and its center is the exalted Lord Jesus, on whose name salvation now hangs.

Found via
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type
Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s)
Promise-Fulfillment + Redemptive-Historical Progression

▸ I Will Pour Out My Spirit

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