Acts 2:17 BSB — MannaFest

Acts 2:17

‘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.

BSB

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ASV

And it shall be in the last days, saith God, I will pour forth 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:

KJV

And 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:

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Commentary

3 voices

Ambrose of Milan

On the Holy Spirit, Book 1 (397)

"I will pour out of My Spirit": He said not Spirit, but "of My Spirit," for we are not able to receive the fulness of the Holy Spirit, but we receive as much as our Master divides to us of His own according to His will.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

And it shall come to pass in the last days,.... In Joel it is, "afterwards"; instead of which Peter puts, "in the last days"; the sense is the same: and so R. David Kimchi, a celebrated commentator with the Jews, observes, that "afterwards" is the same "as in the last days", and which design the times of the Messiah; for according to a rule given by the same writer on Isa 2:2 wherever the last days are mentioned, the days of the Messiah are intended, Saith God, or "the Lord", as the Vulgate Latin and Ethiopic versions read.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

It refers to the last days, the times of the gospel, which are called the last days because the dispensation of God's kingdom among men, which the gospel sets up, is the last dispensation of divine grace, and we are to look for no other than the continuation of this to the end of time.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

It shall come to pass - It shall happen, or shall occur. In the last days - Hebrew, Chaldee, Syriac, and Arabic, after these things, or afterward.

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Original language & word study

38 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
καὶ	kai	And	G2532 →
ἔσται	estai	it will be	G1510 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
ταῖς	tais	the	G3588 →
ἐσχάταις	eschatais	last	G2078 →
ἡμέραις,	hēmerais	days,	G2250 →
λέγει	legei	says	G3004 →
ὁ	ho	<the>	G3588 →
θεός,	theos	God,	G2316 →
ἐκχεῶ	ekcheō	I will pour out	G1632 →
ἀπὸ	apo	of	G575 →
τοῦ	tou	the	G3588 →
πνεύματός	pneumatos	Spirit	G4151 →
μου	mou	of Mine	G3165 →
ἐπὶ	epi	upon	G1909 →
πᾶσαν	pasan	all	G3956 →
σάρκα	sarka	flesh	G4561 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
προφητεύσουσιν	prophēteusousin	will prophesy	G4395 →
οἱ	hoi	the	G3588 →
υἱοὶ	huioi	sons	G5207 →
ὑμῶν	humōn	of you	G4771 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
αἱ	hai	the	G3588 →
θυγατέρες	thugateres	daughters	G2364 →
ὑμῶν,	humōn	of you,	G4771 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
οἱ	hoi	the	G3588 →
νεανίσκοι	neaniskoi	young men	G3495 →
ὑμῶν	humōn	of you	G4771 →
ὁράσεις	horaseis	visions	G3706 →
ὄψονται	opsontai	will behold	G3700 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
οἱ	hoi	the	G3588 →
πρεσβύτεροι	presbuteroi	elders	G4245 →
ὑμῶν	humōn	of you	G4771 →
ἐνυπνίοις	enupniois	dreams	G1798 →
ἐνυπνιασθήσονται.	enupniasthēsontai	will dream.	G1797 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Isaiah 44:3
For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and currents on the dry ground. I will pour out My Spirit on your descendants, and My blessing on your offspring.
leads to
- Joel 2:28
  And afterward, 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.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Isaiah 59:21
  “As for Me, this is My covenant with them,” says the LORD. “My Spirit will not depart from you, and My words that I have put in your mouth will not depart from your…
- John 7:37–39
  On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.
- Proverbs 1:23
  If you had repented at my rebuke, then surely I would have poured out my spirit on you; I would have made my words known to you.
- Revelation 21:6
  And He told me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give freely from the spring of the water of life.
Through
John 7:39
He was speaking about the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were later to receive. For the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.
leads to
- John 14:16–17
  And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Advocate to be with you forever—
- Acts 2:33
  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.
Through
Acts 10:45
All the circumcised believers who had accompanied Peter were astounded that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles.
leads to
- Acts 2:38
  Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.