31. and for many days he appeared to those who had travelled with him from Galilee to Jerusalem. They are now witnesses for him to the people of Israel.
32-33. And we are here to bring the Good News to you: what God promised our ancestors he would do, he has now done for us, who are their descendants, by raising Jesus to life. As it is written in the second Psalm:‘You are my Son;today I have become your Father.’
34. And this is what God said about raising him from death, never to rot away in the grave:‘I will give you the sacred and sure blessingsthat I promised to David.’
35. As indeed he says in another passage:‘You will not allow your faithful servant to rot in the grave.’
36. For David served God's purposes in his own time, and then he died, was buried with his ancestors, and his body rotted in the grave.
37. But this did not happen to the one whom God raised from death.
38-39. We want you to know, my fellow-Israelites, that it is through Jesus that the message about forgiveness of sins is preached to you; and that everyone who believes in him is set free from all the sins from which the Law of Moses could not set you free.
40. Take care, then, so that what the prophets said may not happen to you:
41. ‘Look, you scoffers! Be astonished and die!For what I am doing todayis something that you will not believe,even when someone explains it to you!’ ”
42. As Paul and Barnabas were leaving the synagogue, the people invited them to come back the next Sabbath and tell them more about these things.
43. After the people had left the meeting, Paul and Barnabas were followed by many Jews and by many Gentiles who had been converted to Judaism. The apostles spoke to them and encouraged them to keep on living in the grace of God.
44. The next Sabbath nearly everyone in the town came to hear the word of the Lord.
45. When the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy; they disputed what Paul was saying and insulted him.
46. But Paul and Barnabas spoke out even more boldly: “It was necessary that the word of God should be spoken first to you. But since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we will leave you and go to the Gentiles.
47. For this is the commandment that the Lord has given us:‘I have made you a light for the Gentiles,so that all the world may be saved.’ ”