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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.
28And though they found nothing deserving death in him, they asked of Pilate that he should be slain.
29And when they had accomplished all that was written of him, they took him down from the cross, and laid him in a tomb.
30But God raised him from the dead,
31and he was seen for many days by those who came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now his witnesses to the people.
32And we declare to you the glad tidings, that the promise which was made to the fathers
33God hath fulfilled to us their children, in raising up Jesus from the dead; as it is also written in the first Psalm: “Thou art my Son; I have this day begotten thee.”
34And that he raised him up from the dead, no more to return to corruption, he hath thus spoken: “I will give you the sure holy things promised to David.”
35Wherefore also in another Psalm he saith, “Thou wilt not suffer thy holy one to see corruption:”
36For David, after having in his own generation served the will of God, fell asleep, and was added to his fathers, and saw corruption;
37but he whom God raised from the dead did not see corruption.
38Be it therefore known to you, brethren, that through this man is announced to you the forgiveness of sins;
39and by him every one that believeth is justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.
40Beware therefore, lest that come upon you which is spoken in the Prophets,
41“Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish! for I work a work in your days, a work which ye will not believe, though one should plainly declare it to you.”
42And as they were going out, they besought that these words might be spoken to them on the next sabbath.
43And when the synagogue broke up, many of the Jews and proselyte worshippers followed Paul and Barnabas; who, speaking to them, exhorted them to continue in the grace of God.
44And on the next sabbath almost the whole city came together to hear the word of the Lord.
45But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with indignation, and spoke against what was spoken by Paul, contradicting and reviling.
46Then Paul and Barnabas said boldly and plainly, It was necessary that the word of God should first be spoken to you; but seeing ye thrust it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of the everlasting life, lo! we turn to the gentiles.
47For thus hath the Lord commanded us: “I have set thee to be a light of the gentiles, that thou mayst bring salvation even to the end of the earth.”
48And when the gentiles heard this, they rejoiced, and glorified the word of the Lord; and as many as were ordained to everlasting life, believed.
49And the word of the Lord was spread abroad throughout the whole country.
50But the Jews stirred up the women of rank who worshipped God, and the chief men of the city, and raised a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and drove them from their borders.

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