Acts 13:28-45

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.’

³⁶But David died, after he had done what God wanted in his own time, and he was buried with his ancestors, and his body decayed.

³⁷The one God raised from the dead saw no decay.

³⁸My brothers, I want you to understand that we're telling you that through this man sins are forgiven.

³⁹Through him everyone who trusts in him is made morally right from all that is wrong—in a way that you could never be set right by the law of Moses.

⁴⁰Make sure that what the prophets said doesn't happen to you:

⁴¹‘You who are scornful, look in amazement, and die! For what I'm doing in your lifetime is something that you could never believe, even if someone told you!’”

⁴²As they were leaving, the people pleaded with them to tell them more the next Sabbath.

⁴³After the meeting in the synagogue, many of the Jews and the converts to Judaism followed Paul and Barnabas who spoke with them, encouraging them to continue to hold on to the grace of God.

⁴⁴The following Sabbath almost the whole town turned out to hear the word of God.

⁴⁵However, when the Jews saw the crowds, they became extremely jealous, contradicting what Paul was saying and cursing him.