Acts 2:37 meaning and explanation
When the people heard this, they were cut to the heart and asked Peter and the other apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”
Acts 2:37, Berean Standard Bible
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Peter has just finished his Pentecost sermon, arguing from Joel and from David's psalms that Jesus, whom the crowd's leaders crucified, is both Lord and Christ. Luke says the hearers were "cut to the heart," a sharp image of sudden, painful conviction rather than mere offense.
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