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22 After removing him, he raised David to the throne, and bore this testimony to him--'In David, the son of Jesse, I have found a man after my own heart, who will carry out all my purposes.'
23 It was from this man's descendants that God, in accordance with his promise, gave Israel a Savior--Jesus;
24 John having first proclaimed, before the appearance of Jesus, a baptism upon repentance for all the people of Israel.
25 As John was drawing towards the end of his career, he said what do you suppose that I am? I am not the Christ. But there is "One Coming" after me, whose very sandal I am not worthy to untie.'
26 Brothers, descendants of Abraham, and all those among you who reverence God, it was to us that the Message of this Salvation was sent.
27 The people of Jerusalem and their leading men, failing to recognize Jesus, and not understanding the utterances of the Prophets that are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him.
28 They found no ground at all for putting him to death, and yet demanded his execution from Pilate;
29 And, after carrying out everything written about him, they took Jesus down from the cross, and laid him in a tomb.
30 But God raised him from the dead;
31 And he appeared for many days to those who had gone up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, and who are now witnesses for him to the people.
32 We also have good news to tell you, about the promise made to our ancestors--
33 That our children have had this promise completely fulfilled to them by God, by his raising Jesus. That is just what is said in the second Psalm--'Thou art my Son; this day I have become thy Father.'
34 As to his raising Jesus from the dead, never again to return to corruption, this is what is said--'I will give to you the sacred promises made to David;'
35 And, therefore, in another Psalm it is said--'Thou wilt not give up the Holy One to undergo corruption.'
36 David, after obediently doing God's will in his own time, 'fell asleep and was laid by the side of his ancestors, and did undergo corruption;