Acts 13:17-27

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.

²⁵Well, as John was fulfilling his course, he said: ‘Whom do you suppose me to be? No I am not—but indeed He comes after me, the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.’

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

²⁷The Jerusalem dwellers and their rulers, understanding neither Him nor the voices of the prophets that are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning Him.