Acts 13:20-32

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.

²⁸Though they found no cause for death, they asked Pilate to have Him executed.

²⁹When they had fulfilled all things that were written about Him, they took Him down from the cross and placed Him in a tomb.

³⁰But God raised Him from the dead;

³¹and for many days He was seen by those who came up with Him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are His witnesses to the people.

³²“Yes we proclaim to you the good news: the promise that was made to the fathers,