'Promised' in the Bible

While he was meeting with them, he ordered them, "Don't leave Jerusalem. Instead, wait for what the Father has promised, about which you heard me speak,

Therefore, since he was a prophet and knew that God had promised him with an oath to put one of his descendants on his throne,

He has been exalted to the right hand of God, has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit, and has caused you to experience what you are seeing and hearing.

God gave him no property here, not even a foot of land, yet he promised to give it to him and to his descendants after him as a permanent possession, even though he had no child.

"This is what God promised: His descendants would be strangers in a foreign country, and its people would enslave them and oppress them for 400 years.

It was from this man's descendants that God, as he promised, brought to Israel a Savior, who is Jesus.

We're telling you the good news: What God promised our ancestors