Acts 13:11-42

¹¹And now behold, the hand of the Lord is upon you, and you shall be blind, not seeing the sun for a season.” And immediately a mistiness and darkness fell upon him, and going about, he sought someone to lead him by the hand.

¹²Then when the proconsul saw what had happened, he believed, being amazed at the teaching of the Lord.

¹³Now Paul and his companions put to sea from Paphos, and came to Perga of Pamphylia; But John deserted them and returned to Jerusalem.

¹⁴But they went from Perga, and arrived in Antioch of Pisidia, and entering into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, they sat down.

¹⁵Now after the reading of the Law and the Prophets, the synagogue leaders sent to them, saying, “Men and brothers, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, speak.”

¹⁶And Paul, arising and motioning with his hand, said, “Men, Israelites, and you who fear God, listen:

¹⁷The God of this people chose our fathers, and lifting up the people during their sojourn in the land of Egypt, and with an uplifted arm brought them out from it.

¹⁸Now for a time of about forty years He put up with them in the wilderness.

¹⁹And destroying seven nations in the land of Canaan, He gave their land to them as an inheritance.

²⁰“And after these things, for about four hundred and fifty years, He gave them judges until the time of Samuel the prophet.

²¹And then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.

²²And removing him, He raised up for them David as king, to whom He also said bearing witness, ‘I have found David the son of Jesse, to be a man after My own heart, who will do all My will.’

²³God, from the seed of this man, according to the promise, has brought to Israel salvation,

²⁴after John had first proclaimed before His coming, the baptism of repentance to Israel.

²⁵Now as John was finishing his course, he said, ‘Whom do you suppose me to be? I am not He. But behold, there comes One after me, the sandal of whose feet I am not worthy to loosen.’

²⁶“Men, brothers, sons of the family of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, to you the message of this salvation has been sent.

²⁷For those dwelling in Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they did not know Him, nor the voices of the Prophets which are read according to each Sabbath, condemning him, they fulfilled the Scriptures.

²⁸And finding no cause for death, they asked Pilate that He be executed.

²⁹And when they finished all the things having been written about Him, taking Him down from the tree, they put Him in a tomb.

³⁰But God raised Him from the dead;

³¹who appeared for many days more to those going up with Him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are His witnesses to the people.

³²And we proclaim to you the good news of the promise which was made to the fathers,

³³that God has fulfilled this promise for us to their children, when He raised up Jesus, as it is also written in the second Psalm: ‘You are My Son, today I have begotten You.’

³⁴And that He raised Him from the dead, no longer being about to return to corruption, thus He has said: ‘I will give you the holy and sure blessings of David.’

³⁵Therefore also in another Psalm He says, ‘You will not allow Your Holy One to see corruption.’

³⁶“For David indeed in his own generation, having served by the purpose of God, died, and was buried with his fathers, and saw corruption;

³⁷but He whom God raised up did not see corruption.

³⁸Therefore let it be known to you, brothers, that through this Man forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you,

³⁹and from all things from which you could not (by the Law of Moses) be justified, by Him everyone that believes is justified.

⁴⁰Watch therefore, lest there come upon you that which was spoken of in the prophets:

⁴¹‘Behold, you despisers, and marvel and perish! For I will work a work in your days which you will by no means believe, though one were to declare it to you.’ ”

⁴²Now as the Jews were going out of the synagogue, the Gentiles begged that these words might be spoken to them the next Sabbath.