Acts 13:19–27
19When he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them their land for an inheritance for about four hundred fifty years.↗
20After these things, he gave them judges until Samuel the prophet.↗
21Afterward they asked for a king, and God gave to them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.↗
22When he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king, to whom he also testified, ‘I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after my heart, who will do all my will.’↗
23From this man’s offspring, God has brought salvation to Israel according to his promise,↗
24before his coming, when John had first preached the baptism of repentance to Israel.↗
25As John was fulfilling his course, he said, ‘What do you suppose that I am? I am not he. But behold, one comes after me, the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.’↗
26“Brothers, children of the stock of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, the word of this salvation is sent out to you.↗
27For those who dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they didn’t know him, nor the voices of the prophets which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him.↗
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