Acts 13:20-25

New Century Version

²⁰ All this happened in about four hundred fifty years.

“After this, God gave them judges until the time of Samuel the prophet. ²¹ Then the people asked for a king, so God gave them Saul son of Kish. Saul was from the tribe of Benjamin and was king for forty years. ²² After God took him away, God made David their king. God said about him: ‘I have found in David son of Jesse the kind of man I want. He will do all I want him to do.’ ²³ So God has brought Jesus, one of David’s descendants, to Israel to be its Savior, as he promised. ²⁴ Before Jesus came, John^[a] preached to all the people of Israel about a baptism of changed hearts and lives. ²⁵ When he was finishing his work, he said, ‘Who do you think I am? I am not the Christ. He is coming later, and I am not worthy to untie his sandals.’