Acts 13:18-31

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.