Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

The Prophets Said The Christ Would Suffer, Which God Now Fulfilled. Therefore Repent

¹⁷ “And now, brothers, I know that you acted in-accordance-with^[a] ignorance, just as also your rulers. ¹⁸ But God fulfilled in this manner the things which He announced-beforehand through the mouth of all the prophets— that His Christ would suffer. ¹⁹ Therefore repent and turn-back so that your sins may be wiped-out^[b], ²⁰ so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and He may send-forth the Christ^[c] having been appointed^[d] for you— Jesus, ²¹ Whom it-is-necessary^[e] that heaven receive until the times of restoration of all things, of which God spoke through the mouth of His holy prophets from the past age.

Moses And The Prophets Announced This Day. God Has Sent Jesus To You First

²² “Moses said [in Deut 18:15-19] that ‘The Lord your God will raise-up a prophet for you from your brothers like me. You shall listen-to^[f] Him in relation to all that He says to you. ²³ And it will be that every soul who does not listen-to that prophet will be utterly-destroyed out of the people’. ²⁴ And^[g] indeed all the prophets from Samuel and his successors who spoke also announced these days. ²⁵ You are the sons of the prophets, and of the covenant which God covenanted with your fathers, saying to Abraham [in Gen 22:18], ‘And all the families of the earth will be blessed in your seed’. ²⁶ God, having raised-up His Servant, sent Him forth to you first— blessing you in^[h] turning-away each of you from your evil-ways”.