Acts 13
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Acts 13:27-37

27For the people who live in Jerusalem and their rulers did not recognize him, and they fulfilled the sayings of the prophets that are read every Sabbath by condemning him.

28Though they found no basis for a death sentence, they asked Pilate to have him executed.

29When they had accomplished everything that was written about him, they took him down from the cross and placed him in a tomb.

30But God raised him from the dead,

31and for many days he appeared to those who had accompanied him from Galilee to Jerusalem. These are now his witnesses to the people.

32And we proclaim to you the good news about the promise to our ancestors,

33that this promise God has fulfilled to us, their children, by raising Jesus, as also it is written in the second psalm, ‘You are my Son; today I have fathered you.’

34But regarding the fact that he has raised Jesus from the dead, never again to be in a state of decay, God has spoken in this way: ‘I will give you the holy and trustworthy promises made to David.’

35Therefore he also says in another psalm, ‘You will not permit your Holy One to experience decay.’

36For David, after he had served God’s purpose in his own generation, died, was buried with his ancestors, and experienced decay,

37but the one whom God raised up did not experience decay.

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