Acts 2
The chapter in full, then the passages inside it that are worth stopping on — what each one claims, what the Greek or Hebrew shows, and how the reading is arrived at.
Acts 2 WEB
- 1 Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place.
- 2 Suddenly there came from the sky a sound like the rushing of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.
- 3 Tongues like fire appeared and were distributed to them, and one sat on each of them.
- 4 They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other languages, as the Spirit gave them the ability to speak.
- 5 Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from every nation under the sky.
- 6 When this sound was heard, the multitude came together and were bewildered, because everyone heard them speaking in his own language.
- 7 They were all amazed and marveled, saying to one another, "Behold, aren't all these who speak Galileans?
- 8 How do we hear, everyone in our own native language?
- 9 Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and people from Mesopotamia, Judea, Cappadocia, Pontus, Asia,
- 10 Phrygia, Pamphylia, Egypt, the parts of Libya around Cyrene, visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes,
- 11 Cretans and Arabians—we hear them speaking in our languages the mighty works of God!"
- 12 They were all amazed and were perplexed, saying to one another, "What does this mean?"
- 13 Others, mocking, said, "They are filled with new wine."
- 14 But 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.
- 15 For these aren't drunken, as you suppose, seeing it is only the third hour of the day.
- 16 But 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.
- 18 Yes, and on my servants and on my handmaidens in those days, I will pour out my Spirit, and they will prophesy.
- 19 I will show wonders in the sky above, and signs on the earth beneath: blood, and fire, and billows of smoke.
- 20 The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and glorious day of the Lord comes.
- 21 It 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,
- 23 him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;
- 24 whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.
- 25 For 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.
- 26 Therefore my heart was glad, and my tongue rejoiced. Moreover my flesh also will dwell in hope,
- 27 because you will not leave my soul in Hades, neither will you allow your Holy One to see decay.
- 28 You 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.
- 30 Therefore, 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,
- 31 he foreseeing this, spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that his soul wasn't left in Hades, and his flesh didn't see decay.
- 32 This Jesus God raised up, to which we all are witnesses.
- 33 Being 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.
- 34 For David didn't ascend into the heavens, but he says himself, 'The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit by my right hand
- 35 until 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."
- 37 Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "Brothers, what shall we do?"
- 38 Peter said to them, "Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
- 39 For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself."
- 40 With many other words he testified and exhorted them, saying, "Save yourselves from this crooked generation!"
- 41 Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. There were added that day about three thousand souls.
- 42 They continued steadfastly in the apostles' teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayer.
- 43 Fear came on every soul, and many wonders and signs were done through the apostles.
- 44 All who believed were together, and had all things in common.
- 45 They sold their possessions and goods, and distributed them to all, according as anyone had need.
- 46 Day by day, continuing steadfastly with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread at home, they took their food with gladness and singleness of heart,
- 47 praising God and having favor with all the people. The Lord added to the assembly day by day those who were being saved.
Fifty days after Passover — the Feast of Weeks, when Jerusalem filled with Jewish pilgrims and diaspora Jews returned for the harvest festival — the disciples who had waited in the upper room since the ascension are gathered, and something happens that Luke, who has written a careful two-volume history by this point, does not try to domesticate into ordinary language. This chapter is the hinge of Acts: the promised Spirit arrives, Peter preaches the first Christian sermon, and the church exists as a visible body for the first time.
2:1-4 A sound like the rushing of a mighty wind
Luke reaches for simile rather than description: the sound was "like" (ὥσπερ, hōsper) a mighty wind, and the tongues appeared "like" (ὡσεὶ, hōsei) fire. He is careful not to say wind and fire arrived — he says something happened for which wind and fire are the nearest comparison. That carefulness matters, because wind and fire are not decoration; both carry deep resonance in Israel's scripture. Πνεῦμα (pneuma) means both "wind" and "spirit," a double meaning Jesus himself plays on in John 3:8 — "the wind blows where it wants to... so is everyone who is born of the Spirit." And fire recalls prophetic speech: "Isn't my word like fire?" (Jeremiah 23:29). Luke is not inventing symbols; he is letting the event interpret itself through language his readers already know.
The result is stated plainly and without hedging: "they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other languages, as the Spirit gave them the ability to speak" (2:4). Whatever glossolalia becomes later in the New Testament (Paul writes about it at length in 1 Corinthians, not present in this corpus), what happens here is specified by the next section as actual known human languages, not ecstatic speech unintelligible to hearers.
2:5-13 "How do we hear, everyone in our own native language?"
The list of nations in verses 9-11 is not padding; Luke names the whole known Jewish diaspora — Parthians in the east to visitors from Rome in the west, Arabians in the south — deliberately. The miracle is not merely that people spoke; it is that the gospel was heard, from the first moment, in the languages of "every nation under the sky" (2:5). The scattering at Babel, where a common language was broken into confusion, has an echo here that the tradition has long noticed: what was fractured is being addressed, not by everyone learning one tongue, but by the Spirit speaking into many. Luke does not draw that comparison explicitly, and readers should be honest that it is an inference from the shape of the story, not a stated point — but it is a very old and reasonable one.
The chapter also records the plainest possible alternative explanation, offered on the spot: "They are filled with new wine" (2:13). Luke includes the mockery without rebuttal beyond what Peter says next — he is not afraid of the cheap explanation being voiced.
2:14-21 "Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved"
Peter's rebuttal to the drunkenness charge is almost dryly literal: it is nine in the morning (2:15) — hardly prime drinking hours even by the standards of people inclined to defend themselves against that charge. He answers not by arguing but by quoting Joel: "It will be in the last days... I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh" (2:17). The force of the citation is that Pentecost is not a strange isolated event but the arrival of something Israel's prophets had said would come — and that it comes on "all flesh," sons and daughters, servants and handmaidens alike, without the usual restriction of prophecy to a narrow class of prophets and kings.
The quotation ends on Joel's promise that "whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved" (2:21) — words Peter will build the whole sermon toward, and which Paul later applies just as broadly (a use not in this corpus but well known). Here it stands as the hinge from Joel's oracle to the concrete case Peter is about to make: this Lord has a name, and it is Jesus.
2:22-36 "God has made him both Lord and Christ"
The center of the sermon is an argument, not an assertion. Peter concedes what everyone in Jerusalem already knew — "you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed" (2:23) — and does not soften it. He then argues from David's own psalm (quoted in 2:25-28, a text he attributes to David speaking prophetically) that the Holy One would not be abandoned to Hades or see decay, and notes what his hearers can verify themselves: "David... both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day" (2:29). David's tomb was known and visitable; David plainly did decay. So the psalm cannot ultimately be about David — it must be about "the Christ" David foresaw (2:31), namely "this Jesus God raised up, to which we all are witnesses" (2:32).
The sermon's climax names two titles at once: "God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified" (2:36). The double title matters — Χριστός (Christos, Messiah) locates Jesus within Israel's hope; Κύριος (Kyrios, Lord) is the word the Greek Old Testament uses for the divine name. Peter is not offering Jesus as one prophet among many but identifying him with the "Lord" of the very Joel and Psalm texts just quoted.
2:37-41 "Repent and be baptized"
The response is not admiration but conviction: hearers are "cut to the heart" (κατενύγησαν, katenygēsan — a strong word, closer to being pierced or stabbed) and ask what to do. Peter's answer joins repentance, baptism "in the name of Jesus Christ," forgiveness of sins, and the gift of the Spirit into a single act, not four separate transactions — the historic church has read this as the normative shape of Christian initiation, though traditions differ on exactly how the pieces relate (whether the Spirit is given at baptism itself or distinguishable from it; the passage does not settle every later dispute about sacramental theology). Verse 39 widens the promise deliberately — "to you and to your children, and to all who are far off" — the same universal reach as the Joel citation that opened the sermon.
2:42-47 Life in common
The chapter closes with the shape of the new community: devoted to apostolic teaching, fellowship, the breaking of bread, and prayer (2:42), and holding possessions in common as need required (2:44-45). This is described as what happened in Jerusalem in this moment, not legislated as a permanent economic rule for every church in every place — Acts itself does not repeat it as normative practice elsewhere, and the tradition has generally read it as an act of extraordinary generosity flowing from the Spirit's outpouring rather than a fixed communal-property law binding all Christians.
What the chapter asks
The chapter presses a single identification: that the Jesus crucified weeks before is now named Lord and Christ, and that the Spirit poured out is proof, not decoration, of that claim. It asks whether the resurrection is the kind of fact a listener can be argued into — Peter offers argument, not just testimony — and whether, once argued into it, the only honest response is what Peter's hearers gave: not admiration, but repentance.
The verses this turns on
Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place.discussed above
Greek Nestle 1904
Καὶ ἐν τῷ συνπληροῦσθαι τὴν ἡμέραν τῆς Πεντηκοστῆς ἦσαν πάντες ὁμοῦ ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτό·
- Καὶ καί conjunction G2532
- ἐν ἐν preposition G1722
- τῷ ὁ article · dative singular neuter G3588
- συνπληροῦσθαι συμπληρόω verb · present middle or passive infinitive G4845
- τὴν ὁ article · accusative singular feminine G3588
- ἡμέραν ἡμέρα noun · accusative singular feminine G2250
- τῆς ὁ article · genitive singular feminine G3588
- Πεντηκοστῆς πεντηκοστή noun · genitive singular feminine G4005
- ἦσαν εἰμί verb · imperfect active indicative, 3rd person plural G1510
- πάντες πᾶς adjective · nominative plural masculine G3956
- ὁμοῦ ὁμοῦ adverb G3674
- ἐπὶ ἐπί preposition G1909
Punctuation is editorial — the manuscripts carry none.
See also 5
- Romans 15:6 that with one accord you may with one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
- Philippians 2:2 make my joy full by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;
- Acts 1:13 When they had come in, they went up into the upper room where they were staying, that is Peter, John, James, Andrew, Philip, Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James.
- Philippians 1:27 Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;
- 1 Corinthians 16:8 But I will stay at Ephesus until Pentecost,
They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other languages, as the Spirit gave them the ability to speak.discussed above
Greek Nestle 1904
καὶ ἐπλήσθησαν πάντες Πνεύματος Ἁγίου, καὶ ἤρξαντο λαλεῖν ἑτέραις γλώσσαις καθὼς τὸ Πνεῦμα ἐδίδου ἀποφθέγγεσθαι αὐτοῖς.
- καὶ καί conjunction G2532
- ἐπλήσθησαν πίμπλημι verb · aorist passive indicative, 3rd person plural G4130
- πάντες πᾶς adjective · nominative plural masculine G3956
- Πνεύματος πνεῦμα noun · genitive singular neuter G4151
- Ἁγίου, ἅγιος adjective · genitive singular neuter G40
- καὶ καί conjunction G2532
- ἤρξαντο ἄρχω verb · aorist middle indicative, 3rd person plural G756
- λαλεῖν λαλέω verb · present active infinitive G2980
- ἑτέραις ἕτερος adjective · dative plural feminine G2087
- γλώσσαις γλῶσσα noun · dative plural feminine G1100
- καθὼς καθώς adverb G2531
- τὸ ὁ article · nominative singular neuter G3588
Punctuation is editorial — the manuscripts carry none.
See also 5
- Mark 16:17 These signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new languages;
- Acts 13:52 The disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.
- Acts 4:31 When they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were gathered together. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness.
- Ephesians 5:18 Don't be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,
- 1 Corinthians 12:10 and to another workings of miracles, and to another prophecy, and to another discerning of spirits, to another different kinds of languages, and to another the interpretation of languages.
Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from every nation under the sky.discussed above
Greek Nestle 1904
Ἦσαν δὲ εἰς Ἰερουσαλὴμ κατοικοῦντες Ἰουδαῖοι, ἄνδρες εὐλαβεῖς ἀπὸ παντὸς ἔθνους τῶν ὑπὸ τὸν οὐρανόν·
- Ἦσαν εἰμί verb · imperfect active indicative, 3rd person plural G1510
- δὲ δέ conjunction G1161
- εἰς εἰς preposition G1519
- Ἰερουσαλὴμ Ἱεροσόλυμα proper noun (indeclinable) G2419
- κατοικοῦντες κατοικέω verb · present active participle, nominative plural masculine G2730
- Ἰουδαῖοι, Ἰουδαῖος adjective · nominative plural masculine G2453
- ἄνδρες ἀνήρ noun · nominative plural masculine G435
- εὐλαβεῖς εὐλαβής adjective · nominative plural masculine G2126
- ἀπὸ ἀπό preposition G575
- παντὸς πᾶς adjective · genitive singular neuter G3956
- ἔθνους ἔθνος noun · genitive singular neuter G1484
- τῶν ὁ article · genitive plural neuter G3588
Punctuation is editorial — the manuscripts carry none.
See also 5
- Luke 2:25 Behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. This man was righteous and devout, looking for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him.
- Acts 8:2 Devout men buried Stephen and lamented greatly over him.
- Colossians 1:23 if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which was proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant.
- Acts 8:27 He arose and went; and behold, there was a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasure, who had come to Jerusalem to worship.
- Isaiah 66:18 "For I know their works and their thoughts. The time comes that I will gather all nations and languages, and they will come, and will see my glory.
Others, mocking, said, "They are filled with new wine."discussed above
Greek Nestle 1904
ἕτεροι δὲ διαχλευάζοντες ἔλεγον ὅτι Γλεύκους μεμεστωμένοι εἰσίν.
- ἕτεροι ἕτερος adjective · nominative plural masculine G2087
- δὲ δέ conjunction G1161
- διαχλευάζοντες διαχλευάζω verb · present active participle, nominative plural masculine G05512
- ἔλεγον λέγω verb · imperfect active indicative, 3rd person plural G3004
- ὅτι ὅτι conjunction G3754
- Γλεύκους γλεῦκος noun · genitive singular neuter G1098
- μεμεστωμένοι μεστόω verb · perfect passive participle, nominative plural masculine G3325
- εἰσίν. εἰμί verb · present active indicative, 3rd person plural G1510
Punctuation is editorial — the manuscripts carry none.
See also 5
- 1 Corinthians 14:23 If therefore the whole assembly is assembled together and all speak with other languages, and unlearned or unbelieving people come in, won't they say that you are crazy?
- 1 Samuel 1:14 Eli said to her, "How long will you be drunk? Get rid of your wine!"
- Acts 2:15 For these aren't drunken, as you suppose, seeing it is only the third hour of the day.
- Zechariah 10:7 Ephraim will be like a mighty man, and their heart will rejoice as through wine. Yes, their children will see it and rejoice. Their heart will be glad in Yahweh.
- Job 32:19 Behold, my breast is as wine which has no vent; like new wineskins it is ready to burst.
But 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.discussed above
Greek Nestle 1904
Σταθεὶς δὲ ὁ Πέτρος σὺν τοῖς ἕνδεκα ἐπῆρεν τὴν φωνὴν αὐτοῦ καὶ ἀπεφθέγξατο αὐτοῖς Ἄνδρες Ἰουδαῖοι καὶ οἱ κατοικοῦντες Ἱερουσαλὴμ πάντες, τοῦτο ὑμῖν γνωστὸν ἔστω, καὶ ἐνωτίσασθε τὰ ῥήματά μου.
- Σταθεὶς ἵστημι verb · aorist passive participle, nominative singular masculine G2476
- δὲ δέ conjunction G1161
- ὁ ὁ article · nominative singular masculine G3588
- Πέτρος Πέτρος noun · nominative singular masculine G4074
- σὺν σύν preposition G4862
- τοῖς ὁ article · dative plural masculine G3588
- ἕνδεκα ἕνδεκα numeral (indeclinable) G1733
- ἐπῆρεν ἐπαίρω verb · aorist active indicative, 3rd person singular G1869
- τὴν ὁ article · accusative singular feminine G3588
- φωνὴν φωνή noun · accusative singular feminine G5456
- αὐτοῦ αὐτός personal pronoun · genitive singular masculine G846
- καὶ καί conjunction G2532
Punctuation is editorial — the manuscripts carry none.
See also 5
- Isaiah 51:7 "Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law. Don't fear the reproach of men, and don't be dismayed at their insults.
- Isaiah 51:1 "Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek Yahweh. Look to the rock you were cut from, and to the quarry you were dug from.
- Acts 7:2 He said, "Brothers and fathers, listen. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,
- Deuteronomy 27:9 Moses and the Levitical priests spoke to all Israel, saying, "Be silent and listen, Israel! Today you have become the people of Yahweh your God.
- Isaiah 58:1 "Cry aloud! Don't spare! Lift up your voice like a trumpet! Declare to my people their disobedience, and to the house of Jacob their sins.
For these aren't drunken, as you suppose, seeing it is only the third hour of the day.discussed above
Greek Nestle 1904
οὐ γὰρ ὡς ὑμεῖς ὑπολαμβάνετε οὗτοι μεθύουσιν, ἔστιν γὰρ ὥρα τρίτη τῆς ἡμέρας,
- οὐ οὐ particle · nominative G3756
- γὰρ γάρ conjunction G1063
- ὡς ὡς adverb G5613
- ὑμεῖς σύ personal pronoun G4771
- ὑπολαμβάνετε ὑπολαμβάνω verb · present active indicative, 2nd person plural G5274
- οὗτοι οὗτος demonstrative pronoun · nominative plural masculine G3778
- μεθύουσιν, μεθύω verb · present active indicative, 3rd person plural G3184
- ἔστιν εἰμί verb · present active indicative, 3rd person singular G1510
- γὰρ γάρ conjunction G1063
- ὥρα ὥρα noun · nominative singular feminine G5610
- τρίτη τρίτος adjective · nominative singular feminine G5154
- τῆς ὁ article · genitive singular feminine G3588
Punctuation is editorial — the manuscripts carry none.
See also 2
- 1 Thessalonians 5:5 You are all children of light and children of the day. We don't belong to the night, nor to darkness,
- 1 Samuel 1:15 Hannah answered, "No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit. I have not been drinking wine or strong drink, but I poured out my soul before Yahweh.
'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.discussed above
Greek Nestle 1904
Καὶ ἔσται ἐν ταῖς ἐσχάταις ἡμέραις, λέγει ὁ Θεός, ἐκχεῶ ἀπὸ τοῦ Πνεύματός μου ἐπὶ πᾶσαν σάρκα, καὶ προφητεύσουσιν οἱ υἱοὶ ὑμῶν καὶ αἱ θυγατέρες ὑμῶν, καὶ οἱ νεανίσκοι ὑμῶν ὁράσεις ὄψονται, καὶ οἱ πρεσβύτεροι ὑμῶν ἐνυπνίοις ἐνυπνιασθήσονται·
- Καὶ καί conjunction G2532
- ἔσται εἰμί verb · future middle deponent indicative, 3rd person singular G1510
- ἐν ἐν preposition G1722
- ταῖς ὁ article · dative plural feminine G3588
- ἐσχάταις ἔσχατος adjective · dative plural feminine G2078
- ἡμέραις, ἡμέρα noun · dative plural feminine G2250
- λέγει λέγω verb · present active indicative, 3rd person singular G3004
- ὁ ὁ article · nominative singular masculine G3588
- Θεός, θεός noun · nominative singular masculine G2316
- ἐκχεῶ ἐκχέω verb · future active indicative, 1st person singular G1632
- ἀπὸ ἀπό preposition G575
- τοῦ ὁ article · genitive singular neuter G3588
Punctuation is editorial — the manuscripts carry none.
See also 5
- Joel 2:28 "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.
- Isaiah 44:3 For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and streams on the dry ground. I will pour my Spirit on your descendants, and my blessing on your offspring;
- Titus 3:4 But when the kindness of God our Savior and his love toward mankind appeared,
- Acts 10:45 They of the circumcision who believed were amazed, as many as came with Peter, because the gift of the Holy Spirit was also poured out on the Gentiles.
- John 7:39 But he said this about the Spirit, which those believing in him were to receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus wasn't yet glorified.
It will be that whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.'discussed above
Greek Nestle 1904
καὶ ἔσται πᾶς ὃς ἐὰν ἐπικαλέσηται τὸ ὄνομα Κυρίου σωθήσεται.
- καὶ καί conjunction G2532
- ἔσται εἰμί verb · future middle deponent indicative, 3rd person singular G1510
- πᾶς πᾶς adjective · nominative singular masculine G3956
- ὃς ὅς relative pronoun · nominative singular masculine G3739
- ἐὰν ἐάν conditional G1437
- ἐπικαλέσηται ἐπικαλέω verb · aorist middle subjunctive, 3rd person singular G1941
- τὸ ὁ article · accusative singular neuter G3588
- ὄνομα ὄνομα noun · accusative singular neuter G3686
- Κυρίου κύριος noun · genitive singular masculine G2962
- σωθήσεται. σῴζω verb · future passive indicative, 3rd person singular G4982
Punctuation is editorial — the manuscripts carry none.
See also 5
- Romans 10:12 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, and is rich to all who call on him.
- Joel 2:32 It will happen that whoever will call on Yahweh's name shall be saved; for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be those who escape, as Yahweh has said, and among the remnant, those whom Yahweh calls.
- Psalm 86:5 For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.
- Acts 22:16 Now why do you wait? Arise, be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.'
- Hebrews 4:15-16 For we don't have a high priest who can't be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace for help in time of need.