Acts 13:13-24

New King James Version

At Antioch in Pisidia

¹³ Now when Paul and his party set sail from Paphos, they came to Perga in Pamphylia; and ^(A)John, departing from them, returned to Jerusalem. ¹⁴ But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and ^(B)went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day and sat down. ¹⁵ And ^(C)after the reading of the Law and the Prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, “Men and brethren, if you have ^(D)any word of ^[a]exhortation for the people, say on.”

¹⁶ Then Paul stood up, and motioning with his hand said, “Men of Israel, and ^(E)you who fear God, listen: ¹⁷ The God of this people ^[b]Israel ^(F)chose our fathers, and exalted the people ^(G)when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with ^[c]an uplifted arm He ^(H)brought them out of it. ¹⁸ Now ^(I)for a time of about forty years He put up with their ways in the wilderness. ¹⁹ And when He had destroyed ^(J)seven nations in the land of Canaan, ^(K)He distributed their land to them by allotment.

²⁰ “After that ^(L)He gave them judges for about four hundred and fifty years, ^(M)until Samuel the prophet. ^21 (N)And afterward they asked for a king; so God gave them ^(O)Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years. ²² And ^(P)when He had removed him, ^(Q)He raised up for them David as king, to whom also He gave testimony and said, ^(R)‘I have found David the son of Jesse, ^(S)a man after My own heart, who will do all My will.’ ^23 (T)From this man’s seed, according ^(U)to the promise, God raised up for Israel ^(V)a^[d] Savior—Jesus— ^24 (W)after John had first preached, before His coming, the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.