Acts 13:21-35

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

²²Then God removed Saul, and made David their king. God approved of David, saying ‘I found David the son of Jesse to be a man according to my own heart; he will do everything I intend.’

²³Jesus is David's descendant; he is the Savior that God promised to bring to Israel.

²⁴Before Jesus came, John announced the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.

²⁵As John was completing his mission, he said, ‘Who do you think I am? I am not the one you're looking for. But after me one is coming whose sandals I'm not worthy to untie.’

²⁶My brothers, children of Abraham and those of you who have reverence for God: the message of this salvation has been sent to us!

²⁷The people living in Jerusalem and their leaders didn't recognize Jesus or understand the words spoken by the prophets that are read every Sabbath. In fact they fulfilled the prophetic words by condemning him!

²⁸Even though they couldn't find any evidence to sentence him to death, they still asked Pilate to have him killed.

²⁹After they had fulfilled everything predicted that they would do to him, they took him down from the cross and buried him in a tomb.

³⁰But God raised him from the dead,

³¹and he appeared over the course of many days to those who had followed him from Galilee to Jerusalem. They are now his witnesses to the people.

³²We are here to bring to you the good news of the promise that God made to our forefathers,

³³that he has now fulfilled to us their children by raising Jesus from the dead. As it is written in Psalm 2: ‘You are my Son; today I have become your Father.’

³⁴God raised him from the dead, never to die again, as he indicated by saying, ‘I will give you what is holy and trustworthy, as I promised to David.’

³⁵As another psalm says, ‘You will not allow your Holy One to see decay.’