Joel (the prophet)

• Acts 2:16 gives Peter’s words, “But this is what has been spoken through the prophet Joel:”, and 2:17 opens the words with “It will be in the last days, says God, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh.”
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  • ACT 2:14–36, engwebp

    ¹⁴But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice and spoke out to them, “You men of Judea and all you who dwell at Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen to my words.

    ¹⁵For these aren’t drunken, as you suppose, seeing it is only the third hour of the day.

    ¹⁶But this is what has been spoken through the prophet Joel:

    ¹⁷‘It will be in the last days, says God, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh. Your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your young men will see visions. Your old men will dream dreams.

    ¹⁸Yes, and on my servants and on my handmaidens in those days, I will pour out my Spirit, and they will prophesy.

    ¹⁹I will show wonders in the sky above, and signs on the earth beneath: blood, and fire, and billows of smoke.

    ²⁰The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and glorious day of the Lord comes.

    ²¹It will be that whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.’

    ²²“Men of Israel, hear these words! Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved by God to you by mighty works and wonders and signs which God did by him among you, even as you yourselves know,

    ²³him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;

    ²⁴whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.

    ²⁵For David says concerning him, ‘I saw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved.

    ²⁶Therefore my heart was glad, and my tongue rejoiced. Moreover my flesh also will dwell in hope,

    ²⁷because you will not leave my soul in Hades, neither will you allow your Holy One to see decay.

    ²⁸You made known to me the ways of life. You will make me full of gladness with your presence.’

    ²⁹“Brothers, I may tell you freely of the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.

    ³⁰Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his body, according to the flesh, he would raise up the Christ to sit on his throne,

    ³¹he foreseeing this, spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that his soul wasn’t left in Hades, and his flesh didn’t see decay.

    ³²This Jesus God raised up, to which we all are witnesses.

    ³³Being therefore exalted by the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this which you now see and hear.

    ³⁴For David didn’t ascend into the heavens, but he says himself, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit by my right hand

    ³⁵until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.”’

    ³⁶“Let all the house of Israel therefore know certainly that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.”

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• Joel 1:1 says, “The LORD’s word that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel,” and gives him no title.
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  • JOL 1:1–4, engwebp

    ¹The LORD’s word that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel.

    ²Hear this, you elders, and listen, all you inhabitants of the land! Has this ever happened in your days, or in the days of your fathers?

    ³Tell your children about it, and have your children tell their children, and their children, another generation.

    ⁴What the swarming locust has left, the great locust has eaten. What the great locust has left, the grasshopper has eaten. What the grasshopper has left, the caterpillar has eaten.

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• Joel 2:28 says, “It will happen afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your old men will dream dreams. Your young men will see visions,” and 2:32, “whoever will call on the LORD’s name shall be saved”.
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  • JOL 2:28–32, engwebp

    ²⁸“It will happen afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your old men will dream dreams. Your young men will see visions.

    ²⁹And also on the servants and on the handmaids in those days, I will pour out my Spirit.

    ³⁰I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth: blood, fire, and pillars of smoke.

    ³¹The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the LORD comes.

    ³²It will happen that whoever will call on the LORD’s name shall be saved; for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be those who escape, as the LORD has said, and among the remnant, those whom the LORD calls.

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Acts 2:16 gives Peter’s words, “But this is what has been spoken through the prophet Joel,” and 2:17–21 give the words. Joel 1:1 reads, “The LORD’s word that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel,” and gives him no title. Much of what Acts 2:17–21 gives also stands in Joel 2:28–32, and the two differ: WEB reads “afterward” at Joel 2:28 and “in the last days” at Acts 2:17, and the Korean Revised Version reads 그 후에 at Joel 2:28 and 말세에 at Acts 2:17. This collection holds one entry by the same name and the many words the two books have in common, and decides nothing.