Acts 13:19-25

¹⁹then, after destroying seven heathen nations in Canaan, he allotted their land to this people —

²⁰For about four hundred and fifty years. In later times he gave them Judges, of whom the prophet Samuel was the last.

²¹And, when they demanded a king, God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, who reigned for forty years.

²²After removing him, he raised David to the throne, and bore this testimony to him — ‘In David, the son of Jesse, I have found a man after my own heart, who will carry out all my purposes.’

²³It was from this man's descendants that God, in accordance with his promise, gave Israel a Saviour — Jesus;

²⁴John having first proclaimed, before the appearance of Jesus, a baptism on repentance for all the people of Israel.

²⁵As John was drawing towards the end of his career, he said ‘What do you suppose that I am? I am not the Christ. But there is “one coming” after me, whose sandal I am not worthy to untie.’