Acts 13:16-41

English Standard Version

¹⁶ So Paul stood up, and ^(A)motioning with his hand said:

“Men of Israel and ^(B)you who fear God, listen. ^17 (C)The God of this people Israel ^(D)chose our fathers and ^(E)made the people great ^(F)during their stay in the land of Egypt, and ^(G)with uplifted arm he led them out of it. ¹⁸ And for about ^(H)forty years ^(I)he put up with^[a] them in the wilderness. ¹⁹ And ^(J)after destroying ^(K)seven nations in the land of Canaan, ^(L)he gave them their land as an inheritance. ²⁰ All this took about 450 years. And after that ^(M)he gave them judges until ^(N)Samuel the prophet. ²¹ Then ^(O)they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul ^(P)the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years. ²² And ^(Q)when he had removed him, ^(R)he raised up David to be their king, of whom he testified and said, ^(S)‘I have found in David the son of Jesse ^(T)a man after my heart, ^(U)who will do all my will.’ ^23 (V)Of this man's offspring God has brought to Israel ^(W)a Savior, Jesus, ^(X)as he promised. ²⁴ Before his coming, ^(Y)John had proclaimed ^(Z)a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel. ²⁵ And as John was finishing his course, ^(AA)he said, ‘What do you suppose that I am? I am not he. No, but behold, after me one is coming, the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.’

²⁶ “Brothers, sons of the family of Abraham, and those among you ^(AB)who fear God, to us has been sent ^(AC)the message of ^(AD)this salvation. ²⁷ For those who live in Jerusalem and their rulers, because ^(AE)they did not recognize him nor understand ^(AF)the utterances of the prophets, which are read every Sabbath, ^(AG)fulfilled them by condemning him. ²⁸ And ^(AH)though they found in him no guilt worthy of death, ^(AI)they asked Pilate to have him executed. ²⁹ And when ^(AJ)they had carried out all that was written of him, ^(AK)they took him down from ^(AL)the tree and laid him in a tomb. ³⁰ But ^(AM)God raised him from the dead, ³¹ and for many days ^(AN)he appeared to those ^(AO)who had come up with him ^(AP)from Galilee to Jerusalem, ^(AQ)who are now ^(AR)his witnesses to the people. ³² And we bring you the good news ^(AS)that what God promised to the fathers, ^33 (AT)this he has fulfilled to us their children by raising Jesus, as also it is written in the second Psalm,

³⁴ And as for the fact that he raised him from the dead, ^(AV)(AW)no more to return to corruption, he has spoken in this way,

³⁵ Therefore he says also in another psalm,

³⁶ For David, after he had ^(AZ)served the purpose of God in his own generation, ^(BA)fell asleep and ^(BB)was laid with his fathers and saw corruption, ³⁷ but he whom ^(BC)God raised up did not see corruption. ³⁸ Let it be known to you therefore, brothers, ^(BD)that through this man ^(BE)forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you, ³⁹ and by him ^(BF)everyone who believes is freed^[b] from everything ^(BG)from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses. ⁴⁰ Beware, therefore, lest what is said in the Prophets should come about: