Acts 13:12-30

¹²When the governor saw what happened he trusted in God, amazed at the teaching about the Lord.

¹³Then Paul and those with him sailed from Paphos and went to Perga in Pamphylia, while John left them and went back to Jerusalem.

¹⁴They went through Perga and on to Antioch of Pisidia. On the Sabbath day they went into the synagogue and were seated.

¹⁵After the readings from the Law and the Prophets, the synagogue leaders sent them a message saying, “Brothers, please share with the congregation any words of encouragement you may have.”

¹⁶Paul stood up, motioned with his hand to get their attention, and began speaking. “Men of Israel, and all of you who have reverence for God, listen to me.

¹⁷The God of the people of Israel chose our forefathers, and gave our people prosperity during their stay in the land of Egypt. Then with his mighty power he led them out of Egypt,

¹⁸and he patiently dealt with them in the desert for about forty years.

¹⁹After he had overthrown seven nations living in the land of Canaan, God divided their land among the Israelites and gave it to them to inherit. This took about four hundred and fifty years.

²⁰Then he provided them with judges as leaders until the time of the prophet Samuel.

²¹Then the people asked for a king, and God gave them Saul, son of Kish from the tribe of Benjamin, who ruled for forty years.

²²Then God removed Saul, and made David their king. God approved of David, saying ‘I found David the son of Jesse to be a man according to my own heart; he will do everything I intend.’

²³Jesus is David's descendant; he is the Savior that God promised to bring to Israel.

²⁴Before Jesus came, John announced the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.

²⁵As John was completing his mission, he said, ‘Who do you think I am? I am not the one you're looking for. But after me one is coming whose sandals I'm not worthy to untie.’

²⁶My brothers, children of Abraham and those of you who have reverence for God: the message of this salvation has been sent to us!

²⁷The people living in Jerusalem and their leaders didn't recognize Jesus or understand the words spoken by the prophets that are read every Sabbath. In fact they fulfilled the prophetic words by condemning him!

²⁸Even though they couldn't find any evidence to sentence him to death, they still asked Pilate to have him killed.

²⁹After they had fulfilled everything predicted that they would do to him, they took him down from the cross and buried him in a tomb.

³⁰But God raised him from the dead,