Acts 13:13-41 - Preaching In The Synagogue At Pisidian Antioch
13 Then Paul and his party set sail from Paphos and crossed over to Perga in Pamphylia. Here John quit them and returned to Jerusalem, 14 but they went on from Perga and arrived at Antioch in Pisidia. On the sabbath they went to the synagogue and took seats. 15 After the reading of the law and the prophets, the leaders of the synagogue worship sent to them and said, "Brothers, if you have any message of encouragement for the people, you may speak."
16 Then Paul got up and motioned with his hand and said: "Fellow Israelites, and you who reverence God, listen! 17 The God of this people Israel chose our forefathers, and made this people important during their stay in Egypt, and then with an uplifted arm He led them out of it. 18 Then after He had fed them forty years in the desert, 19 He destroyed seven nations in Canaan 20 and gave them their land as an inheritance for about four hundred and fifty years. And after that He gave them judges until the time of Samuel the prophet. 21 Then they demanded a king, and for forty years God gave them Saul, the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin. 22 Then He deposed him and raised up for them David to be king, to whom He bore this testimony, 'I have found in David, the son of Jesse, a man after my own heart, who will do all that my will requires.'
23 It is from this man's descendants that God, as He promised, has brought to Israel a Saviour in the person of Jesus, 24 as John, before His coming, had already preached baptism as an expression of repentance, for all the people of Israel. 25 As John was closing his career, he said, 'What do you take me to be? I am not the Christ; no, but He is coming after me, and I am not fit to untie the shoes on His feet.'
26 Brothers, descendants of the race of Abraham, and all among you who reverence God, it is to us that the message of this salvation has been sent. 27 For the people of Jerusalem and their leaders, because they were ignorant of Him, by condemning Him have actually fulfilled the utterances of the prophets which are read every Sabbath, 28 and although they could not find Him guilty of a capital offense, they begged Pilate to have Him put to death. 29 When they had carried out everything that had been written in the Scriptures about Him, they took Him down from the cross and laid Him in a tomb. 30 But God raised Him from the dead, 31 and for many days He appeared to those who had come up with Him from Galilee to Jerusalem, and they are now witnesses for Him to the people. 32 So now we are bringing you the good news about the promise that was made to our forefathers, 33 that God has fulfilled it to us their children, by raising Jesus to life, just as the Scripture says in the Second Psalm, 'You are my Son, today I have become your Father.'
34 Now as a proof that He has raised Him from the dead, no more to return to decay, He has spoken this, 'I will fulfill to you the holy promises made to David.' 35 Because in another psalm he says, 'You will not let your Holy One experience decay.' 36 For David, after having served God's purpose in his own generation, fell asleep and was laid among his forefathers, and so he did experience decay, 37 but He whom God raised to life did not experience it. 38 So, my brothers, you must understand that through Him the forgiveness of your sins is now proclaimed to you, 39 and that through union with Him every one of you who believes is given right standing with God and freed from every charge from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses. 40 So take care that what is said in the prophets does not come upon you:
41 'Look, you scoffers! Then wonder and vanish away, for I am doing a work in your times which you will not at all believe though one may tell you in detail.'"