Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

Paul Proclaims That John Announced The Coming of The Davidic Savior, Jesus

¹⁶ And Paul, having stood up, and having motioned with his hand, said “Men, Israelites, and the ones fearing God: listen. ¹⁷ The God of this people Israel chose our fathers. And He lifted-up the people during the stay in the land of Egypt, and with an uplifted arm led them out of it. ¹⁸ And for about a forty year period He put-up-with^[a] them in the wilderness. ¹⁹ And having brought-down seven^[b] nations in the land of Canaan, He gave them their land as-an-inheritance ²⁰ about^[c] in [a total of] four-hundred and fifty years. And after these things He gave them judges until Samuel the prophet. ²¹ And from there they asked-for a king. And God gave them Saul— the son of Kish, a man from the tribe of Benjamin— for forty years. ²² And having removed him, He raised-up David for them for a king— concerning whom also having testified, He said, ‘I found David the son of Jesse, a man in-accordance-with^[d] My heart, who will do all My desires’. ²³ From the seed of this one, in accordance with the promise, God brought a Savior for^[e] Israel, Jesus— ²⁴ John having publicly-proclaimed a baptism of repentance for all the people of Israel before the presence of His coming. ²⁵ And as John was completing his course, he was saying, ‘What do you suppose that I am? I am not the One. But behold— He is coming after me, of Whom I am not worthy to untie the sandal of His feet’.