Acts 13:18-31

¹⁸For about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.

¹⁹After he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave our people their land for an inheritance.

²⁰All these events took place over four hundred and fifty years. After all these things, God gave them judges until Samuel the prophet.

²¹Then the people asked for a king, and God gave them Saul son of Kish, a man from the tribe of Benjamin, to be king for forty years.

²²After God removed him from the kingship, he raised up David to be their king. It was about David that God said, 'I have found David son of Jesse to be a man after my heart, who does all I want him to do.'

²³From this man's descendants God has brought to Israel a savior, Jesus, as he promised to do.

²⁴This began to happen when, before Jesus came, John first announced the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.

²⁵As John was finishing his work, he said, 'Who do you think I am? I am not the one. But listen, one is coming after me, the shoes of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.'

²⁶Brothers, children of the line of Abraham, and those among you who worship God, it is to us that the message about this salvation has been sent.

²⁷For they who live in Jerusalem, and their rulers, did not recognize him, and they fulfilled sayings of the prophets that are read every Sabbath by condemning him.

²⁸Even though they found no good cause for death in him, they asked Pilate to kill him.

²⁹When they had completed all the things that were written about him, they took him down from the tree and laid him in a tomb.

³⁰But God raised him from the dead.

³¹He was seen for many days by those who had come up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem. These people are now his witnesses to the people.