13 Now Paul and his com­pan­ions set sail from Paphos and came to Perga in Pam­phylia. And John left them and returned to Jerusalem, 14 but they went on from Perga and came to Anti­och in Pisidia. And on the Sab­bath day they went into the syn­a­gogue and sat down. 15 After the read­ing from the Law and the Prophets, the rulers of the syn­a­gogue sent a mes­sage to them, say­ing, “Broth­ers, if you have any word of encour­age­ment for the peo­ple, say it.” 16 So Paul stood up, and motion­ing with his hand said:

“Men of Israel and you who fear God, lis­ten. 17 The God of this peo­ple Israel chose our fathers and made the peo­ple great dur­ing their stay in the land of Egypt, and with uplifted arm he led them out of it. 18 And for about forty years he put up with them in the wilder­ness. 19 And after destroy­ing seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them their land as an inher­i­tance. 20 All this took about 450 years. And after that he gave them judges until Samuel the prophet. 21 Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Ben­jamin, for forty years. 22 And when he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king, of whom he tes­ti­fied and said, ‘I have found in David the son of Jesse a man after my heart, who will do all my will.’ 23 Of this man’s off­spring God has brought to Israel a Sav­ior, Jesus, as he promised. 24 Before his com­ing, John had pro­claimed a bap­tism of repen­tance to all the peo­ple of Israel. 25 And as John was fin­ish­ing his course, he said, ‘What do you sup­pose that I am? I am not he. No, but behold, after me one is com­ing, the san­dals of whose feet I am not wor­thy to untie.’

26 “Broth­ers, sons of the fam­ily of Abra­ham, and those among you who fear God, to us has been sent the mes­sage of this sal­va­tion. 27 For those who live in Jerusalem and their rulers, because they did not rec­og­nize him nor under­stand the utter­ances of the prophets, which are read every Sab­bath, ful­filled them by con­demn­ing him. 28 And though they found in him no guilt wor­thy of death, they asked Pilate to have him exe­cuted. 29 And when they had car­ried out all that was writ­ten of him, they took him down from the tree 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, who are now his wit­nesses to the peo­ple. 32 And we bring you the good news that what God promised to the fathers, 33 this he has ful­filled to us their chil­dren by rais­ing Jesus, as also it is writ­ten in the sec­ond Psalm,

34 And as for the fact that he raised him from the dead, no more to return to cor­rup­tion, he has spo­ken in this way,

35 There­fore he says also in another psalm,

36 For David, after he had served the pur­pose of God in his own gen­er­a­tion, fell asleep and was laid with his fathers and saw cor­rup­tion, 37 but he whom God raised up did not see cor­rup­tion. 38 Let it be known to you there­fore, broth­ers, that through this man for­give­ness of sins is pro­claimed to you, 39 and by him every­one who believes is freed from every­thing from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses. 40 Beware, there­fore, lest what is said in the Prophets should come about: