For to you belongs the promise, and to your children, and to all who are far off, whoever the Lord our God may call."

"But as the time drew near for the fulfilment of the promise which God had made to Abraham, the people became many times more numerous in Egypt,

"It is from among David's descendants that God, in fulfilment of His promise, has raised up a Saviour for Israel, even Jesus.

And we bring you the Good News about the promise made to our forefathers,

but took leave of them with the promise, "I will return to you, God willing." So he set sail from Ephesus.

I beg you not to comply; for more than forty men among them are lying in wait for him, who have solemnly vowed that they will neither eat nor drink till they have assassinated him; and even now they are ready, in anticipation of receiving that promise of you."

And now I stand here impeached because of my hope in the fulfilment of the promise made by God to our forefathers--

the promise which our twelve tribes, worshipping day and night with intense devotedness, hope to have made good to them. It is on the subject of this hope, Sir, that I am accused by the Jews.