Deeds (Act) of Apostles 13:15-27

¹⁵And after the reading of the law and of the prophets, the princes of the synagogue sent to them, and said, Brethren, if any word of exhortation to the people is in you, say ye.

¹⁶And Paul rose, and with hand bade silence, and said, Men of Israel, and ye that dread God, hear ye.

¹⁷God of the people of Israel chose our fathers, and enhanced the people, when they were comelings in the land of Egypt, and in an high arm he led them out of it;

¹⁸and by the time of forty years he suffered their manners in desert.

¹⁹And he destroyed seven folks in the land of Canaan, and by sort parted to them their land,

²⁰as after four hundred and fifty years. And after these things he gave doomsmen, till to Samuel, the prophet.

²¹And from that time they asked a king, and God gave to them Saul, the son of Cis, a man of the lineage of Benjamin, by forty years.

²²And when he was done away, he raised to them David the king, to whom he bare witnessing, and said, I have found David, the son of Jesse, a man after mine heart, which shall do all my will.

²³Of whose seed by the promise God hath led out to Israel a Saviour Jesus,

²⁴when John preached before the face of his coming the baptism of penance to all the people of Israel.

²⁵But when John ful filled his course, he said, I am not he, whom ye deem me to be; but lo! he cometh after me, and I am not worthy to do off or to unbind the shoes of his feet.

²⁶Brethren, and sons of the kind of Abraham, and which that in you dread God, to you the word of health is sent.

²⁷For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and princes of it, that knew not this Jesus, and the voices of prophets, that by every sabbath be read, deemed, and fulfilled;