Acts 2:20

Amplified Bible

'THE SUN SHALL BE TURNED INTO DARKNESS AND THE MOON INTO BLOOD, BEFORE THE GREAT AND GLORIOUS DAY OF THE LORD COMES.

Parallel Translations

English Standard Version
the sun shall be turned to darkness and the moon to blood, before the day of the Lord comes, the great and magnificent day.

Geneva Bible (1587)
The Sunne shalbe turned into darkenesse, and the moone into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come.

Christian Standard Bible®
The sun will be turned to darknessand the moon to bloodbefore the great and glorious day of the Lord comes.

Hebrew Names Version
The sun will be turned into darkness, And the moon into blood, Before the great and glorious day of the Lord comes.

Darby Translation
the sun shall be changed to darkness and the moon to blood, before the great and gloriously appearing day of [the] Lord come.

Easy-to-Read Version
The sun will be changed into darkness, and the moon will be as red as blood. Then the great and glorious day of the Lord will come.

American Standard Version
The sun shall be turned into darkness, And the moon into blood, Before the day of the Lord come, That great and notable day:

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

Contemporary English Version
The sun will turn dark, and the moon will be as red as blood before the great and wonderful day of the Lord appears.

Complete Jewish Bible
The sun will become dark and the moon blood before the great and fearful Day of Adonai comes.

International Standard Version
The sun will turn to darkness,Matthew 24:29; Mark 13:24; Luke 21:25;">[xr] and the moon to blood, before the coming of the great and glorious Day of the Lord.

Etheridge Translation
The sun shall be turned into darkness, And the moon into blood, Before shall come the day of the Lord, great and fearful;

Murdock Translation
And the sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and fearful day of the Lord come.

King James Version (1611)
The Sunne shall be turned into darkenesse, and the Moone into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
The Sunne shalbe turned into darknesse, and the Moone into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come.

English Revised Version
The sun shall be turned into darkness, And the moon into blood, Before the day of the Lord come, That great and notable day:

King James Version
The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and notable day of the Lord come:

Lexham English Bible
The sun will be changed to darkness and the moon to blood, before the great and glorious day of the Lord comes.

Literal Translation
The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the" "coming of the great and glorious" "day of the Lord."

New Century Version
The sun will become dark, the moon red as blood, before the overwhelming and glorious day of the Lord will come.

New English Translation
The sun will be changed to darkness and the moon to blood before the great and glorious day of the Lord comes .

New King James Version
The sun shall be turned into darkness, And the moon into blood, Before the coming of the great and awesome day of the LORD.

New Living Translation
The sun will become dark, and the moon will turn blood red before that great and glorious day of the Lord arrives.

New Life Bible
The sun will turn dark and the moon will turn to blood before the day of the Lord. His coming will be a great and special day.

New Revised Standard
The sun shall be turned to darkness and the moon to blood, before the coming of the Lord's great and glorious day.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The sun, shall be turned into darkness and, the moon, into blood, - before the coming of the day of the Lord, the great and manifest day ;

Douay-Rheims Bible
The sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood, before the great and manifest day of the Lord to come.

George Lamsa Translation
The sun shall be changed into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and fearful day of the Lord shall come.

Good News Translation
the sun will be darkened, and the moon will turn red as blood, before the great and glorious Day of the Lord comes.

Webster's Bible Translation
The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
blood and fire, and vapour of smoke, The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the day of the Lord, the great and illustrious day, come.

Weymouth's New Testament
The sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood, to usher in the day of the Lord-- that great and illustrious day;

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The sunne schal be turned in to derknessis, and the moone in to blood, bifor that the greet and the opyn dai of the Lord come.

Young's Literal Translation
the sun shall be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the coming of the day of the Lord -- the great and illustrious;

World English Bible
The sun will be turned into darkness, And the moon into blood, Before the great and glorious day of the Lord comes.

Revised Standard Version
the sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood, before the day of the Lord comes, the great and manifest day.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
The sunne shalbe turned into darknes and the mone into bloud before that greate and notable daye of the Lorde come.

Update Bible Version
The sun shall be turned into darkness, And the moon into blood, Before the day of the Lord comes, That great and notable [day].

Bible in Basic English
The sun will become dark and the moon will be turned to blood, before that great day of the Lord comes in glory:

New American Standard Bible
'THE SUN WILL BE TURNED INTO DARKNESS AND THE MOON INTO BLOOD, BEFORE THE GREAT AND GLORIOUS DAY OF THE LORD COMES.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The Sonne shalbe turned in to darknesse, and the Moone in to bloude, before that greate and notable daye of the LORDE come.

Mace New Testament (1729)
the sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and illustrious day of the Lord shall come.

Simplified Cowboy Version
The sun will shut off, and the moon will turn red when the Lord comes back.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
'THE SUN WILL BE TURNED INTO DARKNESS AND THE MOON INTO BLOOD, BEFORE THE GREAT AND GLORIOUS DAY OF THE LORD SHALL COME.

Legacy Standard Bible
The sun will be turned into darknessAnd the moon into blood,Before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes.

Contextual Overview

¹⁴But Peter, standing with the eleven, raised his voice and addressed them: "Men of Judea and all you who live in Jerusalem, let this be explained to you; listen closely and pay attention to what I have to say. ¹⁵"These people are not drunk, as you assume, since it is [only] the third hour of the day (9:00 a.m.); ¹⁶but this is [the beginning of] what was spoken of through the prophet Joel: ¹⁷'AND IT SHALL BE IN THE LAST DAYS,' says God, 'THAT I WILL POUR OUT MY SPIRIT UPON ALL MANKIND; AND YOUR SONS AND YOUR DAUGHTERS SHALL PROPHESY, AND YOUR YOUNG MEN SHALL SEE [divinely prompted] VISIONS, AND YOUR OLD MEN SHALL DREAM [divinely prompted] DREAMS; ¹⁸EVEN ON MY BOND-SERVANTS, BOTH MEN AND WOMEN, I WILL IN THOSE DAYS POUR OUT MY SPIRIT And they shall prophesy. ¹⁹'AND I WILL BRING ABOUT WONDERS IN THE SKY ABOVE AND SIGNS (attesting miracles) ON THE EARTH BELOW, BLOOD AND FIRE AND SMOKING VAPOR. ²⁰'THE SUN SHALL BE TURNED INTO DARKNESS AND THE MOON INTO BLOOD, BEFORE THE GREAT AND GLORIOUS DAY OF THE LORD COMES.²¹'AND IT SHALL BE THAT EVERYONE WHO CALLS UPON THE NAME OF THE LORD [invoking, adoring, and worshiping the Lord Jesus] SHALL BE SAVED (rescued spiritually).' ²²"Men of Israel, listen to these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a Man accredited and pointed out and attested to you by God with [the power to perform] miracles and wonders and signs which God worked through Him in your [very] midst, just as you yourselves know— ²³this Man, when handed over [to the Roman authorities] according to the predetermined decision and foreknowledge of God, you nailed to a cross and put to death by the hands of lawless and godless men.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

sun: Isaiah 13:9, Isaiah 13:15, Isaiah 24:23, Jeremiah 4:23, Amos 8:9, Matthew 24:29, Matthew 27:45, Mark 13:24, Luke 21:25, 2 Peter 3:7, 2 Peter 3:10, Revelation 6:12, Revelation 16:8

great: Isaiah 2:12-21, Isaiah 34:8, Joel 2:1, Joel 3:14, Zephaniah 2:2, Zephaniah 2:3, Malachi 4:5, 1 Corinthians 5:5, 1 Thessalonians 5:2, 2 Peter 3:10

Reciprocal: Genesis 1:14 - and let Joshua 10:13 - So the sun Isaiah 9:19 - is the land Isaiah 34:4 - all the Jeremiah 30:7 - for Joel 2:10 - the sun Joel 2:30 - I will Zephaniah 1:14 - great Zechariah 14:1 - General Luke 21:10 - Nation shall Luke 23:44 - there Revelation 8:12 - and the third part of the sun

Cross-References

Genesis 2:18
Now the LORD God said, "It is not good (beneficial) for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper [one who balances him—a counterpart who is] suitable and complementary for him."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The sun shall be turned into darkness,.... As at the death of Christ, by a total eclipse of it:

and the moon into blood; as at the opening of the sixth seal, Revelation 6:12

before that great and notable day of the Lord come; when he shall come in power and great glory, as he did in a few years after this, to take vengeance on the Jews, and destroy their nation, city, and temple; in which there was a display of his greatness, and power, and which was awful and "terrible" to them, as in Joel it is called;

Revelation 6:12- :.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The sun shall be turned into darkness - See the notes on Matthew 24:29. The same images used here with reference to the sun and moon are used also there: They occur not infrequently, Mark 13:24; 2 Peter 3:7-10. The shining of the sun is an emblem of prosperity; the withdrawing, the eclipse, or the setting of the sun is an emblem of calamity, and is often thus need in the Scriptures, Isaiah 60:20; Jeremiah 15:9; Ezekiel 32:7; Amos 8:9; Revelation 6:12; Revelation 8:12; Revelation 9:2; Revelation 16:8. To say that the sun is darkened, or turned into darkness, is an image of calamity, and especially of the calamities of war, when the smoke of burning cities rises to heaven and obscures his light. This is not, therefore, to be taken literally, nor does it afford any indication of what will be at the end of the world in regard to the sun.

The moon into blood - The word “blood” here means that obscure, sanguinary color which the moon has when the atmosphere is filled with smoke and vapor, and especially the lurid and alarming appearance which it assumes when smoke and flames are thrown up by earthquakes and fiery eruptions, Revelation 6:12, “And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and lo, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood,” Revelation 8:8. In this place it denotes great calamities. The figures used are indicative of wars, and conflagrations, and earthquakes. As these things are Matthew 24:0 applied to the destruction of Jerusalem; as they actually occurred previous to that event (see the notes on Matthew 24:0), it may be supposed that the prophecy in Joel had an immediate reference to that. The meaning of the quotation by Peter in this place therefore is, that what occurred on the day of Pentecost was the beginning of the serges of wonders that was to take place during the times of the Messiah. It is not intimated that those scenes were to close or to be exhausted in that age. They may precede that great day of the Lord which is yet to come in view of the whole earth.

That great and notable day of the Lord - This is called the great day of the Lord, because on that day he will be signally manifested, more impressively and strikingly than on other times. The word “notable,” ἐπιφανῆ epiphanē, means “signal, illustrious, distinguished.” In Joel the word is “terrible or fearful”; a word applicable to days of calamity, and trial, and judgment. The Greek word here rendered notable is also in the Septuagint frequently used to denote “calamity” or “times of judgment,” Deuteronomy 10:21; 2 Samuel 7:23. This will apply to any day in which God signally manifests himself, but particularly to a day when he shall come forth to punish people, as at the destruction of Jerusalem, or at the day of judgment. The meaning is, that those wonders would take place before that distinguished day should arrive when God would come forth in judgment.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Acts 2:20. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood — These are figurative representations of eclipses, intended most probably to point out the fall of the civil and ecclesiastical state in Judea: Matthew 24:29. That the SUN is darkened when a total eclipse takes place, and that the MOON appears of a bloody hue in such circumstances, every person knows.