Acts 13:13-41 - Preaching In The Synagogue At Pisidian Antioch
13 after which Paul and his company set out from Paphos to Perga in Pamphilia, where John quitted them in order to return to Jerusalem. 14 From Perga they went to Antioch in Pisidia, and going to the synagogue on the sabbath-day, they took their places, 15 and after the lesson out of the law and the prophets was finish'd, the heads of the synagogue sent this message to them; Men and brethren, if you have any instruction to offer to the people, deliver it.
16 thereupon Paul stood up, and having made sign with his hand for their attention, he said, men of Israel, and ye that fear God, give audience. 17 the God of Israel made choice of our fathers, and exalted the people when they sojourn'd in Egypt, from whence he conducted them by the terror of his arm. 18 for forty years he maintain'd them in the wilderness. 19 after that he distributed to them by lot the territorys of seven nations, which he destroyed in Canaan. 20 after these transactions, which lasted about four hundred and fifty years, he gave them judges to the time of the prophet Samuel: 21 when having demanded a king, God gave them Saul the son of Cis, of the tribe of Benjamin: the government of both having lasted forty years, 22 God removed Saul, and rais'd up David to be their king, to whom he gave this testimonial, " I have found David the son of Jesse: he is a man most acceptable to me, and he will execute all my orders."
23 it is of his posterity that God, pursuant to his promise, has rais'd up Jesus to be the saviour of Israel. 24 before his appearance, John had preach'd the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel. 25 and in the discharge of his mission, he said, "who do you think I am? I am not the Messias. but there comes another after me, whose shoes I am not worthy to untie."
26 It is to you, my brethren, who are the children of Abraham, and to all who fear God among you, that this salutary news is sent. 27 as for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and their senators, by their not knowing who he was, and by condemning him, they have accomplished the declarations of the prophets, which are read every sabbath-day: 28 although they could not convict him of any thing capital, yet they demanded of Pilate, that he should be put to death. 29 after they had accomplished all that was written concerning him, he was taken down from the cross, and laid in a sepulchre: 30 but God raised him from the dead: 31 and for many days he was seen by those, who had accompany'd him from Galilee to Jerusalem: and they are now his witnesses to the people. 32 to you therefore we declare, that the promise which God had made to the fathers, he has now perform'd to us, who are their children, by his having raised up Jesus again. 33 agreeable to what is written in the first psalm, "thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee."
34 and to show that he rais'd him from the dead, never more to return to corruption, he said thus, "I will faithfully perform the promises, which I made to David." 35 wherefore in another place he says, "thou shalt not suffer thy holy one to see corruption." 36 for David, after he had serv'd in his time the designs of providence, died and was buryed with his fathers, and was subject to corruption. 37 but he, whom God hath raised, was not subject to corruption. 38 know then, my brethren, it is by him, that the remission of sins is offer'd to you: 39 by him, every one who believes, is purged from all that guilt, for which the law of Moses had made no such provision. 40 take care then, that what the prophets predicted may not happen to you,
41 "consider you despisers, be surpriz'd and turn pale, for I shall perform a work in your days, which you will not believe, whoever shall declare it unto you."