19. After he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave his people their land as an inheritance.
20. All this took about four hundred fifty years. After this he gave them judges until the time of Samuel the prophet.
21. Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul son of Kish, a man from the tribe of Benjamin, who ruled forty years.
22. After removing him, God raised up David their king. He testified about him: ‘I have found David the son of Jesse to be a man after my heart, who will accomplish everything I want him to do.’
23. From the descendants of this man God brought to Israel a Savior, Jesus, just as he promised.
24. Before Jesus arrived, John had proclaimed a baptism for repentance to all the people of Israel.
25. But while John was completing his mission, he said repeatedly, ‘What do you think I am? I am not he. But look, one is coming after me. I am not worthy to untie the sandals on his feet!’
26. Brothers, descendants of Abraham’s family, and those Gentiles among you who fear God, the message of this salvation has been sent to us.
27. For the people who live in Jerusalem and their rulers did not recognize him, and they fulfilled the sayings of the prophets that are read every Sabbath by condemning him.
28. Though they found no basis for a death sentence, they asked Pilate to have him executed.
29. When they had accomplished everything that was 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 appeared to those who had accompanied him from Galilee to Jerusalem. These are now his witnesses to the people.
32. And we proclaim to you the good news about the promise to our ancestors,
33. that this promise God has fulfilled to us, their children, by raising Jesus, as also it is written in the second psalm, ‘You are my Son; today I have fathered you.’
34. But regarding the fact that he has raised Jesus from the dead, never again to be in a state of decay, God has spoken in this way: ‘I will give you the holy and trustworthy promises made to David.’
35. Therefore he also says in another psalm, ‘You will not permit your Holy One to experience decay.’