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Acts 2:19-20 KJV
Acts · chapter 2 · verses 19–20
19And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke: 20The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come:Acts 2:19-20 · King James Version
Acts 2:19-20 in context
17And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:
18And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:
19And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:
20The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come:
21And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.
22Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know:
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Key words (Strong's)
- darknessskotosdarkness, of night darkness, of darkened eyesight or blindness, metaph., of ignorance…G4655 →
- wondersterasa prodigy, portent, miracle performed by any oneG5059 →
- beneathkatōdown, downwards, below, beneath, of place, below, of temporal successionG2736 →
- notableepiphanēsconspicuous, manifest, illustriousG2016 →
- heavenouranosthe vaulted expanse of the sky with all things visible in it, the universe, the world…G3772 →
- vapouratmisvapourG822 →
- turnedmetastrephōto turn around, turn aroundG3344 →
- beforeēeither, or, thanG2228 →
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We have here the first-fruits of the Spirit in the sermon which Peter preached immediately, directed, not to those of other nations in a strange language (we are not told what answer he gave to those that were amazed, and said, What meaneth this?) but to the Jews in the vulgar language, even to those that mocked;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 14-36