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Acts 2:20-21 KJV
Acts · chapter 2 · verses 20–21
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.Acts 2:20-21 · King James Version
Acts 2:20-21 in context
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:
23Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
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Key words (Strong's)
- whosoeverhoswho, which, what, thatG3739 →
- whosoeverpasindividually, each, every, any, all, the whole, everyone, all things, everything…G3956 →
- whosoeveranhas no exact English equivalent, see definitions under AVG302 →
- darknessskotosdarkness, of night darkness, of darkened eyesight or blindness, metaph., of ignorance…G4655 →
- notableepiphanēsconspicuous, manifest, illustriousG2016 →
- turnedmetastrephōto turn around, turn aroundG3344 →
- beforeēeither, or, thanG2228 →
- beforeprinbefore, formerlyG4250 →
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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