Acts 13:13-24

¹³Then Paul and his party set sail from Paphos and came to Perga in Pamphilia (here John left them and returned to Jerusalem).

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

¹⁵After the reading of the Law and the Prophets, the synagogue leaders sent to them, saying, “Men, brothers, if you have a word of encouragement for the people, do speak.”

¹⁶So standing up and motioning with his hand, Paul said: “Men of Israel and you who fear God, listen.

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

¹⁸For a period of about forty years He put up with them in the wilderness.

¹⁹And when He had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, He gave them possession of their land.

²⁰After these things, He gave judges for about four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet.

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

²²And removing him He raised up for them David as king, about whom He gave witness and said, ‘I have found David son of Jesse a man after my heart, who will do all my will.’

²³God, from this man's seed, according to promise, has brought Salvation to Israel,

²⁴John having heralded beforehand, in advance of His coming, a baptism of repentance to Israel.