Acts 13:27-44

27For those who live in Jerusalem and their rulers—not recognizing Him or the sayings of the Prophets that are read every Shabbat—fulfilled these words by condemning Him.

28Though they found no charge worthy of a death sentence, they asked Pilate to have Him executed.

29When they had carried out all that had been written about Him, they took Him down from the tree and laid Him in a tomb.

30But God raised Him from the dead!

31For many days He appeared to those who had come up from the Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now His witnesses to the people.

32“And we proclaim to you Good News—the promise to the fathers has arrived!

33For God has fulfilled this promise to the children—to us—by raising up Yeshua, as it is also written in the second psalm: ‘You are My Son. Today I have become Your Father.’

34“But since He raised Him up from the dead, never to return to decay, He has spoken in this way, ‘I will give you the holy and sure mercies of David.’

35Therefore He also says in another psalm, ‘You will not permit Your Holy One to see decay.’

36For after David had served God’s purpose in his own generation, he went to sleep and was laid with his fathers and saw decay.

37But the One whom God raised up did not see decay.

38“Therefore, let it be known to you, brothers, that through this One is proclaimed to you the removal of sins, including all those from which you could not be set right by the Torah of Moses.

39Through this One everyone who keeps trusting is made righteous.

40“Be careful, then, so that what is said in the Prophets may not come upon you:

41‘Look, you scoffers, be amazed and vanish away. For I am doing a work in your days— a work you will never believe, even if someone tells it to you in detail.’”

42As Paul and Barnabas were going out, the people kept begging them to speak these things to them the next Shabbat.

43When the synagogue meeting broke up, many of the Jewish people and God-fearing inquirers followed Paul and Barnabas, who were speaking with them and trying to persuade them to continue in the grace of God.

44The following Shabbat, almost the entire city came together to hear the word of the Lord.