Brethren, it was necessary for this scripture to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit had before spoken by the mouth of David, concerning Judas, who was a guide to those who took Jesus:

For David speaks with reference to him: I saw the Lord always in my presence: for he is at my right hand, that I should not be moved.

Brethren, I may say to you plainly of the patriarch David, that he died, and was buried, and his sepulcher is with us to this day.

For David has not ascended into the heavens; but he himself says, The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand,

And when they heard it, they lifted up their voice with one consent to God, and said: Lord, thou art God, who didst make the heaven and the earth and the sea, and all things that are in them; who, by the mouth of David thy servant, didst say,

which our fathers, who were with Joshua, received by succession, and brought into the land possessed by the Gentiles, whom God continued to drive out from the face of our fathers till the -days of David,

And when he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king; to whom he gave this testimony: I have found David the son of Jesse a man after my own heart, who will do all my will.

But that he raised him from the dead, no more to return to corruption, he has spoken thus: I will give you the sure mercies of David.

For David, after serving the purpose of God in his own generation, fell asleep, and was laid with his fathers, and saw corruption.

After this I will return, and build again the tabernacle of David which has fallen down; and I will build again its ruins, and I will set it up;