The God of our forefathers raised Jesus to life when you had hung him on a cross and killed him.

We are witnesses of everything that he did in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem. Yet they put him upon a cross and killed him.

When they had carried out everything that had been said about him in the Scriptures, they took him down from the cross and laid him in a tomb.

As he wanted to cross to Greece, the brothers wrote to the disciples there, urging them to welcome him. On his arrival there he was of great service to those who through God's favor had become believers,