Moffatt(i)
22 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.'
23 From his offspring God brought to Israel, as he had promised, a saviour in Jesus,
24 before whose coming John had already preached a baptism of repentance for all the people of Israel.
25 And as John was closing his career he said, 'What do you take me for? I am not He; no, he is coming after me, and I am not fit to untie the sandals on his feet!'
26 Brothers, sons of Abraham's race and all among you who reverence God, the message of this salvation has been sent to us.
27 The inhabitants of Jerusalem and their rulers, by condemning him in their ignorance, fulfilled the words of the prophets which are read every sabbath;
28 though they could find him guilty of no crime that deserved death, they begged Pilate to have him put to death,
29 and, after carrying out all that had been predicted of him in scripture, they lowered him from the gibbet and laid him in a tomb.
30 But God raised him from the dead.
31 For many days he was seen by those who had come up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem; they are now his witnesses to the People.
32 So we now preach to you the glad news that the promise made to the fathers
33 has been fulfilled by God for us their children, when he raised Jesus. As it is written in the second psalm, thou art my son, to-day have I become thy father.
34 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.
35 Hence in another psalm he says, thou wilt not let thy holy One suffer decay.
36 Of course David, after serving God's purpose in his own generation, died and was laid beside his fathers; he suffered decay,