Acts 13:13-41 - Preaching In The Synagogue At Pisidian Antioch
13 Setting sail from Paphos, Paul and his companions reached Perga in Pamphylia; John left them and went back to Jerusalem, 14 but they passed on from Perga and arrived at Pisidian Antioch. On the sabbath they went into the synagogue and sat down; 15 and, after the reading of the Law and the prophets, the presidents of the synagogue sent to tell them, "Brothers, if you have any word of counsel for the people, say it."
16 So Paul stood up and motioning with his hand said, "Listen, men of Israel and you who reverence God. 17 The God of this People Israel chose our fathers; he multiplied the people as they sojourned in the land of Egypt and with arm uplifted led them out of it. 18 For about forty years he bore with them in the desert, 19 and after destroying seven nations in the land of Canaan he gave them their land as an inheritance for about four hundred and fifty years. 20 After that he gave them judges, down to the prophet Samuel. 21 Then it was that they begged for a king, and God gave them forty years of Saul, the son of Kish, who belonged to the tribe of Benjamin. 22 After deposing him, he raised up David to be their king, to whom he bore this testimony that 'In David, the son of Jessai, I have found a man after my own heart, who will obey all my will.'
23 From his offspring God brought to Israel, as he had promised, a saviour in Jesus, 24 before whose coming John had already preached a baptism of repentance for all the people of Israel. 25 And as John was closing his career he said, 'What do you take me for? I am not He; no, he is coming after me, and I am not fit to untie the sandals on his feet!'
26 Brothers, sons of Abraham's race and all among you who reverence God, the message of this salvation has been sent to us. 27 The inhabitants of Jerusalem and their rulers, by condemning him in their ignorance, fulfilled the words of the prophets which are read every sabbath; 28 though they could find him guilty of no crime that deserved death, they begged Pilate to have him put to death, 29 and, after carrying out all that had been predicted of him in scripture, they lowered him from the gibbet and laid him in a tomb. 30 But God raised him from the dead. 31 For many days he was seen by those who had come up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem; they are now his witnesses to the People. 32 So we now preach to you the glad news that the promise made to the fathers 33 has been fulfilled by God for us their children, when he raised Jesus. As it is written in the second psalm, thou art my son, to-day have I become thy father.
34 And as a proof that he has raised him from the dead, never to return to decay, he has said this: I will give you the holiness of David that fails not. 35 Hence in another psalm he says, thou wilt not let thy holy One suffer decay. 36 Of course David, after serving God's purpose in his own generation, died and was laid beside his fathers; he suffered decay, 37 but He whom God raised did not suffer decay. 38 So you must understand, my brothers, that remission of sins is proclaimed to you through him, 39 and that by him everyone who believes is absolved from all that the law of Moses never could absolve you from. 40 Beware then in case the prophetic saying applies to you:
41 Look, you disdainful folk, wonder at this and perish for in your days I do a deed, a deed you will never believe, not though one were to explain it to you."