25. And as John fulfilled his course, he said, Whom think ye that I am? I am not he. But, behold, there comes one after me, whose shoes of his feet I am not worthy to loose.
26. Men and brethren, sons of the lineage of Abraham, and whosoever among you fears God, unto you is this word of saving health sent.
27. For those that dwell at Jerusalem and their princes, because they knew him not nor yet the voices of the prophets who are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him.
28. And without finding cause of death in him, yet they asked Pilate that he should be slain.
29. And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree and laid him in a sepulchre.
30. But God raised him from the dead,
31. and he was seen many days by those who came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who until now are his witnesses unto the people.