Acts 13:20-29

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 Savior — 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.’

²⁶Brothers and sisters, descendants of Abraham, and all those among you who worship God, it was to us that the message of this salvation was sent.

²⁷The people of Jerusalem and their leaders, failing to recognize Jesus, and not understanding the utterances of the prophets that are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him.

²⁸They found no ground at all for putting him to death, and yet demanded his execution from Pilate;

²⁹and, after carrying out everything written about him, they took Jesus down from the cross, and laid him in a tomb.