22. “Israelite men, listen to these words! Jesus the Nazarene, a man attested to you by God with deeds of power and wonders and signs that God did through him in your midst, just as you yourselves know—
23. this man, delivered up by the determined plan and foreknowledge of God, you executed by nailing to a cross through the hand of lawless men.
24. God raised him up, having brought to an end the pains of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it.
25. For David says with reference to him, ‘I saw the Lord before me continually, for he is at my right hand so that I will not be shaken.
26. For this reason my heart was glad and my tongue rejoiced greatly, furthermore also my flesh will live in hope,
27. because you will not abandon my soul in Hades, nor will you permit your Holy One to experience decay.
28. You have made known to me the paths of life; you will fill me with gladness with your presence.’
29. “Men and brothers, it is possible to speak with confidence to you about the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us until this day.
30. Therefore, because he was a prophet and knew that God had sworn to him with an oath to seat one of his descendants on his throne,
31. by having foreseen this, he spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that neither was he abandoned in Hades nor did his flesh experience decay.
32. This Jesus God raised up, of which we all are witnesses.