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.