Acts 13:13-41 - Preaching In The Synagogue At Pisidian Antioch
13 When Paul, and they that were with him, had departed by ship from Paphos, they came to Perga a city of Pamphylia. And there departed John from them, and returned to Jerusalem. 14 But they wandered through the countries, from Perga to Antioch a city of the country of Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and sat down. 15 And after the law and the prophets were read, the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them saying, "Ye men and brethren, if ye have any sermon to exhort the people, say on."
16 Then Paul stood up and beckoned with the hand and said, "Men of Israel, and ye that fear God, give audience. 17 The God of this people chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with a mighty arm brought them out of it. 18 And about the time of forty years, suffered he their manners in the wilderness. 19 And he destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, and divided their land to them by lot. 20 And afterward he gave unto them judges, about the space of four hundred and fifty years, unto the time of Samuel the prophet. 21 And after that they desired a king, and God gave unto them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty years. 22 And after he had put him down, he set up David to be their king: of whom he gave reported, saying, 'I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, he shall fulfill all my will.'
23 Of this man's seed hath God, according to his promise, brought forth to the people of Israel a saviour, one Jesus, 24 when John had first preached before his coming the baptism of repentance to Israel. 25 And when John had fulfilled his course, he said, 'Whom ye think that I am? The same am I not, but behold there cometh one after me, whose shoes of his feet I am not worthy to loose.'
26 Ye men and brethren, children of the generation off Abraham, and whosoever among you feareth God, to you is this word of salvation sent. 27 The inhabiters of Jerusalem, and their rulers: because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every Sabbath day; they have fulfilled them in condemning him. 28 And when they found no cause of death in him, yet desired they Pilate to kill him. 29 And when they had fulfilled all that were written of him, they took him down from the tree and put him in a sepulchre: 30 But God raised him again from death, 31 and he was seen many days of them, which came with him from Galilee to Jerusalem which are his witnesses unto the people. 32 And we declare unto you, how that the promise made unto the fathers; 33 God hath now fulfilled unto us their children, in that he raised up Jesus again, even as it is written in the second psalm, 'Thou art my son, this same day begat I thee.'
34 As concerning that he so raised him up from death, now no more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, 'The holy promises made to David I will give them faithfully to you.' 35 Wherefore he saith also in another place, 'Thou shalt not suffer thine Holy to see corruption.' 36 Howbeit David, after he had in his time fulfilled the will of God, he slept, and was laid with his fathers, and saw corruption. 37 But he whom God raised again, saw no corruption. 38 Be it known unto you therefore, ye men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins; 39 And that by him are all that believe justified from all things, from the which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses. 40 Beware therefore lest that fall on you, which is spoken of in the prophets,
41 'Behold ye despisers, and wonder, and perish ye: for I do a work in your days, which ye shall not believe, if a man would declare it you.'"