Acts 13:14–41

But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and ↦went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and sat down.⇉⇇

And after ↦the reading of the law and the prophets ↦the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, ↦Ye men and brethren, ↦if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, say on.⇇

Then Paul stood up, and ↦beckoning with his hand said, ↦Men of Israel, ↦and ye that fear God, ↦give audience.⇇

The ↦God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, ↦and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, ↦and with an high arm brought he them out of it.⇇

And ↦about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness.⇇

And ↦when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of ↦Chanaan, he divided their land to them by lot.⇉⇇

And after that ↦he gave unto them judges about the space of four hundred and fifty years, ↦until Samuel the prophet.⇇

And afterward ↦they desired a king: and God gave unto them ↦Saul the son of ↦Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty years.⇇

And ↦when he had removed him, ↦he raised up unto them David to be their king; ↦to whom also he gave testimony, and said, ↦I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfil all my will.⇇

Of ↦this man's seed hath God according to his promise ↦raised unto Israel a Saviour, Jesus:⇇

When John had first preached before his coming the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.⇉⇇

And as John ↦fulfilled his course, he said, ↦Whom think ye that I am? I am not he. But, behold, there cometh one after me, whose shoes of his feet I am not worthy to loose.⇇

Men and brethren, ↦children of the stock of Abraham, ↦and whosoever among you feareth God, ↦to you is the word of this salvation sent.⇇

For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, ↦because they knew him not, ↦nor yet the voices of the prophets ↦which are read every sabbath day, ↦they have fulfilled them in condemning him.⇇

And though they found no cause of death in him, yet desired they Pilate that he should be slain.⇉⇇

And ↦when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, ↦they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre.⇇

But God raised him from the dead:⇉⇇

And ↦he was seen many days of them which came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, ↦who are his witnesses unto the people.⇇

And ↦we declare unto you glad tidings, ↦how that the promise which was made unto the fathers,⇇

God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, ↦Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.⇇

And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, ↦now no more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, ↦I will give you ↦the sure mercies of David.⇇

Wherefore he saith also ↦in another psalm, Thou shalt not suffer thine Holy One ↦to see corruption.⇇

For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, ↦fell on sleep, ↦and was laid unto his fathers, ↦and saw corruption:⇉⇇

But he, whom God raised again, saw no corruption.⇉⇇

Be ↦it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, ↦that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins:⇇

And ↦by him all that believe are justified from all things, ↦from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.⇇

↦Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, ↦which is spoken of in the prophets;⇇

Behold, ↦ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: ↦for I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you.⇇