"My brothers," said he, "it had to be fulfilled, that scripture which the holy Spirit uttered beforehand by the lips of David with regard to Judas who acted as guide to those who arrested Jesus.

For David says of him, I saw the Lord before me evermore; lest I be shaken, he is at my right hand.

Brothers, I can speak quite plainly to you about the patriarch David; he died and was buried and his tomb remains with us to this day.

For it was not David who ascended to heaven; David says, The Lord said to my Lord, 'Sit at my right hand,

who said to our fathers by the holy Spirit through the lips of thy servant David, Why did the Gentiles rage, and the peoples vainly conspire?

It was passed on and borne in by our fathers as with Joshua they took possession of the territory of the nations whom God drove out before our fathers. So it remained down to the days of David.

After deposing him, he raised up David to be their king, to whom he bore this testimony that 'In David, the son of Jessai, I have found a man after my own heart, who will obey all my will.'

And as a proof that he has raised him from the dead, never to return to decay, he has said this: I will give you the holiness of David that fails not.

Of course David, after serving God's purpose in his own generation, died and was laid beside his fathers; he suffered decay,

After this I will return and rebuild David's fallen tent, its ruins I will rebuild and erect it anew,