Acts 1:5

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Acts 1:3–7 · Berean Standard Bible

3 After His suffering, He presented Himself to them with many convincing proofs that He was alive. He appeared to them over a span of forty days and spoke about the kingdom of God.

4 And while they were gathered together, He commanded them: “Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift the Father promised, which you have heard Me discuss.

5 For John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.”

6 So when they came together, they asked Him, “Lord, will You at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?”

7 Jesus replied, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by His own authority.

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Acts 11:15

As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them, just as He had fallen upon us at the beginning.

Acts 19:4

Paul explained: “John’s baptism was a baptism of repentance. He told the people to believe in the One coming after him, that is, in Jesus.”

Matthew 3:11

I baptize you with water for repentance, but after me will come One more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.

Luke 3:16

John answered all of them: “I baptize you with water, but One more powerful than I will come, the straps of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.

John 1:31

I myself did not know Him, but the reason I came baptizing with water was that He might be revealed to Israel.”

1 Corinthians 12:13

For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free, and we were all given one Spirit to drink.

Titus 3:5

He saved us, not by the righteous deeds we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of new birth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.

Acts 2:1

When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place.

Acts 2:2

Suddenly a sound like a mighty rushing wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting.

Acts 2:3

They saw tongues like flames of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them.

Acts 2:4

And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.

Acts 2:16

No, this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:

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.

Acts 2:18

Even on My menservants and maidservants I will pour out My Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy.

Acts 2:19

I will show wonders in the heavens above and signs on the earth below, blood and fire and billows of smoke.

Acts 2:20

The sun will be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the coming of the great and glorious Day of the Lord.

Acts 2:21

And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.’

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.

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.

Joel 2:29

Even on My menservants and maidservants, I will pour out My Spirit in those days.

Joel 2:30

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

Joel 2:31

The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and awesome Day of the LORD.

Joel 2:32

And everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved; for on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be deliverance, as the LORD has promised, among the remnant called by the LORD.

Joel 3:18

And in that day the mountains will drip with sweet wine, and the hills will flow with milk. All the streams of Judah will run with water, and a spring will flow from the house of the LORD to water the Valley of Acacias.