Acts 13:13-41 - Preaching In The Synagogue At Pisidian Antioch
13 Now those around Paul, having launched from Paphos, they came to Perga in Pamphylia. But John, having departed from them, returned to Jerusalem. 14 And they, having passed through from Perga, arrived at Antioch of Pisidia, and after entering into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, they sat down. 15 And after the reading of the law and the prophets the synagogue rulers sent to them, saying, Men, brothers, if there is among you a word of exhortation for the people, speak.
16 And Paul having stood up, and having motioned with the hand, he said, Men, Israelites, and those who fear God, listen. 17 The God of this people Israel chose our fathers, and raised up the people during the sojourn in the land of Egypt. And with a lofty arm he brought them out of it. 18 And for about a forty-year time he was patient with them in the wilderness. 19 And having destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he allotted their land to them. 20 And after these things he gave them judges about four hundred and fifty years until Samuel the prophet. 21 And afterward they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years. 22 And having removed him, he raised up David for a king to them, also about whom he said, when he testified, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man according to my heart, who will do all my purposes.
23 From this man's seed according to promise, God brought salvation to Israel, 24 John having earlier proclaimed, before his coming presence, the immersion of repentance to Israel. 25 And as John was fulfilling his course, he said, Whom do ye suppose me to be? I am not, but behold, he comes after me of whom I am not worthy to loose the shoes of his feet.
26 Men, brothers, sons of the race of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, to you the word of this salvation was sent. 27 For those who dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, not having known this and the voices of the prophets being read at every Sabbath, they fulfilled, having condemned him. 28 And not having found one cause of death in him, they asked for Pilate to kill him. 29 And when they completed all the things written about him, having taken him down from the tree, they laid him in a tomb. 30 But God raised him from the dead, 31 who was seen for more days by those who came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are witnesses of him to the people. 32 And we proclaim good-news to you: the promise to the fathers, which happened because God has fulfilled this to us their children, having raised up Jesus, 33 as also it is written in the second psalm, Thou are my Son, today I have begotten thee.
34 And because he raised him from the dead, no longer going to return to decay, he has spoken this way: I will give to you the faithful holy things of David. 35 Therefore also he says in another, Thou will not give thy Holy man to see decay. 36 For indeed David, who served his own generation in the plan of God, became asleep, and was added near his fathers, and saw decay. 37 But he whom God raised up saw no decay. 38 Be it known to you therefore, men, brothers, that through this man remission of sins is proclaimed to you. 39 And from all things of which ye could not be make righteous by the Law of Moses, in this man every man who believes is made righteous. 40 Watch therefore, lest that which is spoken in the prophets should come upon you:
41 Behold, ye scoffers, and wonder, and perish, because I work a work in your days, which ye would, no, not believe, if some man should fully narrate it to you.