As we saw in the previous text, crowds of people had gathered to see what was going on when they heard the sound of the Spirit and the Christians speaking in tongues. Some of them were asking the honest question “What do these things mean?” and some accused the Christians of being drunk. Peter stands forth from the 12 Apostles to answer both the honest question and the accusation, and what he gives us is the first sermon of the New Covenant era. In this sermon, Peter shows us how Salvation in Christ the Messiah is everything the Old Testament had predicted and prepared us for.
