Acts 2:22 (GNV)

Passage

Yee men of Israel, heare these woordes, JESUS of Nazareth, a man approued of God among you with great workes, and wonders, and signes, which God did by him in the middes of you, as yee your selues also knowe:

Nearby Context

Acts 2:20 The Sunne shalbe turned into darkenesse, and the moone into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come.

Acts 2:21 And it shalbe, that whosoeuer shall call on the Name of the Lord, shalbe saued.

Acts 2:22 Yee men of Israel, heare these woordes, JESUS of Nazareth, a man approued of God among you with great workes, and wonders, and signes, which God did by him in the middes of you, as yee your selues also knowe:

Acts 2:23 Him, I say, being deliuered by the determinate counsell, and foreknowledge of God, after you had taken, with wicked handes you haue crucified and slaine.

Acts 2:24 Whome God hath raised vp, and loosed the sorrowes of death, because it was vnpossible that he should be holden of it.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "israel", "heare", "woordes", "jesus", "nazareth", "approued", "great", and "workes". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "israel" and "heare", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 21's "And it shalbe that whosoeuer shall call..." into verse 23's "Him I say being deliuered by the...", so "israel" and "heare" belong inside that flow. In Acts context, the local focus is Christ, faith, and discipleship.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "israel" and "heare" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.