8. “And how do we hear, each one in our own language in which we were born?
9. “Parthians and Medes and Ěylamites, and those dwelling in Aram Naharayim, both Yehuḏah and Kappadokia, Pontos and Asia,
10. both Phrygia and Pamphulia, Mitsrayim and the parts of Libya around Cyrene, visitors from Rome, both Yehuḏim and converts,
11. “Cretans and Araḇs, we hear them speaking in our own tongues the great deeds of Elohim.”
12. And they were all amazed, and were puzzled, saying to each other, “What does this mean?”
13. And others mocking said, “They have been filled with sweet wine.”
14. But Kĕpha, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice and said to them, “Men of Yehuḏah and all those dwelling in Yerushalayim, let this be known to you, and listen closely to my words.
15. “For these men are not drunk, as you imagine, since it is only the third hour of the day.
16. “But this is what was spoken by the prophet Yo’ĕl:
17. ‘And it shall be in the last days, says Elohim, that I shall pour out of My Spirit on all flesh. And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams,
18. and also on My male servants and on My female servants I shall pour out My Spirit in those days, and they shall prophesy.
19. ‘And I shall show wonders in the heaven above and signs in the earth beneath: blood and fire and vapour of smoke.
20. ‘The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the coming of the great and splendid day of יהוה.
21. ‘And it shall be that everyone who calls on the Name of יהוה shall be saved.’
22. “Men of Yisra’ĕl, hear these words: יהושע of Natsareth, a Man from Elohim, having been pointed out to you by mighty works, and wonders, and signs which Elohim did through Him in your midst, as you yourselves also know,
23. this One, given up by the set purpose and foreknowledge of Elohim, you have impaled and put to death through the hands of lawless men –