Acts 13:15-33

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

¹⁵ After the reading of the Law and the Prophets, the officials of the synagogue sent them a message, saying, “Brothers,^[a] if you have any word of exhortation for the people, give it.” ¹⁶ So Paul stood up and with a gesture began to speak:

“Fellow Israelites^[b] and others who fear God, listen. ¹⁷ The God of this people Israel chose our ancestors and made the people great during their stay in the land of Egypt, and with uplifted arm he led them out of it.^{(A) 18} For about forty years he put up with^[c] them in the wilderness.^{(B) 19} After he had destroyed seven peoples in the land of Canaan, he gave them their land as an inheritance^{(C) 20} for about four hundred fifty years. After that he gave them judges until the time of the prophet Samuel.^{(D) 21} Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, who reigned for forty years.^{(E) 22} When he had removed him, he made David their king. In his testimony about him he said, ‘I have found David, son of Jesse, to be a man after my heart, who will carry out all my wishes.’^{(F) 23} Of this man’s posterity God has brought to Israel a Savior, Jesus, as he promised;^{(G) 24} before his coming John had already proclaimed a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.^{(H) 25} And as John was finishing his work, he said, ‘What do you suppose that I am? I am not he. No, but one is coming after me; I am not worthy to untie the strap of the sandals^[d] on his feet.’^(I)

²⁶ “Brothers and sisters,^[e] you descendants of Abraham’s family and others who fear God, to us^[f] the message of this salvation has been sent. ²⁷ Because the residents of Jerusalem and their leaders did not recognize him or understand the words of the prophets that are read every Sabbath, they fulfilled those words by condemning him.^{(J) 28} Even though they found no cause for a sentence of death, they asked Pilate to have him killed.^{(K) 29} When they had carried out everything that was written about him, they took him down from the tree and laid him in a tomb.^{(L) 30} But God raised him from the dead,^{(M) 31} and for many days he appeared to those who came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, and they are now his witnesses to the people.^{(N) 32} And we bring you the good news that what God promised to our ancestors^{(O) 33} he has fulfilled for us, their children,^[g] by raising Jesus; as also it is written in the second psalm,