Acts 13:22-36

WPNT(i) 22 And removing him He raised up for them David as king, about whom He gave witness and said: ‘I have found David son of Jesse a man after my heart, who will do all my will’. 23 God, from this man’s seed, according to promise, has brought Salvation to Israel, 24 John having heralded beforehand, in advance of His coming, a baptism of repentance to Israel. 25 Well as John was fulfilling his course, he said: ‘Whom do you suppose me to be? No I’m not—but indeed He comes after me, the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie’. 26 “Men, brothers, sons of the stock of Abraham, and those among you who fear God: to you the word of this salvation has been sent. 27 The Jerusalem dwellers and their rulers, understanding neither Him nor the voices of the prophets that are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning Him. 28 Though they found no cause for death, they asked Pilate to have Him executed. 29 When they had fulfilled all things that were written about Him, they took Him down from the cross and placed Him in a tomb. 30 But God raised Him from the dead; 31 and for many days He was seen by those who came up with Him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are His witnesses to the people. 32 “Yes we proclaim to you the good news: the promise that was made to the fathers, 33 God has fulfilled the same to us, their children, when He raised up Jesus; as also it stands written in the second Psalm: ‘You are my Son, today I have begotten you’. 34 And that He raised Him from the dead, no longer to return to corruption, He has spoken thus, ‘I will give you the holy things guaranteed to David’. 35 Further, it is stated elsewhere, ‘You will not allow your Holy One to see decay’. 36 Now David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell asleep, was buried with his fathers, and saw decay;