Acts 13:16-41

16Paul stood up, and 1motioning with his hand said,

“Men of Israel, and 2you who fear God, listen: 17The God of this people Israel 3chose our fathers and 45made the people great during their stay in the land of Egypt, and with an uplifted arm 6He led them out from it. 18For 7a period of about forty years 8He put up with them in the wilderness. 199When He had destroyed 10seven nations in the land of Canaan, He 11distributed their land as an inheritance--all of which took 12about four hundred and fifty years. 20After these things He 13gave them judges until 14Samuel the prophet. 21Then they 15asked for a king, and God gave them 16Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years. 22After He had 17removed him, He raised up David to be their king, concerning whom He also testified and said, ‘18I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after My heart, who will do all My 19will.’ 2320From the descendants of this man, 21according to promise, God has brought to Israel 22a Savior, Jesus, 24after 23John had proclaimed before 24His coming a 25baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel. 25And while John 26was completing his course, 27he kept saying, ‘What do you suppose that I am? I am not He. But behold, one is coming after me the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.’

26“Brethren, sons of Abraham’s family, and those among you who fear God, to us the message of 28this salvation has been sent. 27For those who live in Jerusalem, and their 29rulers, 30recognizing neither Him nor the 31utterances of 32the prophets which are 33read every Sabbath, fulfilled these by condemning Him. 28And though they found no ground for putting Him to death, they 34asked Pilate that He be 35executed. 29When they had 36carried out all that was written concerning Him, 37they took Him down from 38the 39cross and 40laid Him in a tomb. 30But God 41raised Him from the dead; 31and for many days 42He appeared to those who came up with Him from Galilee to Jerusalem, the very ones who are now 43His witnesses to the people. 32And we 44preach to you the good news of 45the promise made to the fathers, 33that God has fulfilled this promise 46to our children in that He 47raised up Jesus, as it is also written in the second Psalm, ‘48You are My Son; today I have begotten You.’ 34As for the fact that He 49raised Him up from the dead, no longer to return to decay, He has spoken in this way: ‘50I will give you the holy and 51sure blessings of David.’ 35Therefore He also says in another Psalm, ‘52You will not 53allow Your 54Holy One to 55undergo decay.’ 36For 56David, after he had 57served 58the purpose of God in his own generation, 59fell asleep, and was laid among his fathers and 60underwent decay; 37but He whom God 61raised did not 62undergo decay. 38Therefore let it be known to you, brethren, that 63through 64Him forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you, 39and 65through Him 66everyone who believes is 67freed 68from all things, from which you could not be 69freed 70through the Law of Moses. 40Therefore take heed, so that the thing spoken of 71in the Prophets may not come upon you:41‘72Behold, you scoffers, and marvel, and 73perish; For I am accomplishing a work in your days, A work which you will never believe, though someone should describe it to you.’”