Acts 13:13-27

¹³And Paul and his company, having put to sea from Paphos, came to Perga in Pamphylia. But John, departing from them, returned to Jerusalem.

¹⁴And they, going on from Perga, came to Antioch in Pisidia; and they went into the synagogue on the sabbath-day, and sat down.

¹⁵And after the reading of the Law and the Prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, Brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, speak.

¹⁶Then Paul stood up, and beckoned with his hand and said, Men of Israel, and ye that fear God, hearken.

¹⁷The God of this people chose our fathers, and he exalted the people in their sojourn in the land of Egypt, and with a high arm he brought them out of it;

¹⁸and for about forty years he nourished them in the wilderness.

¹⁹And having destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them their land as a possession.

²⁰And after that, for about four hundred and fifty years, he gave judges, until Samuel the prophet.

²¹And afterward 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 having removed him, he raised up to them David to be their king, to whom he gave testimony, saying, “I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after my own heart, who will do all my will.”

²³From the seed of this man hath God, according to his promise, brought to Israel a Saviour, Jesus;

²⁴before whose coming forward John had first preached a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.

²⁵And as John was finishing his course, he said, Who do ye think that I am? I am not He. But lo I there cometh after me one, the sandal of whose feet I am not worthy to loose.

²⁶Brethren, sons of the stock of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, to you was the word of this salvation sent forth.

²⁷For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, not knowing him, nor the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath, fulfilled them in condemning him.