26. “Brothers—you sons of Abraham, and also you God-fearing Gentiles—this message of salvation has been sent to us!
27. The people in Jerusalem and their leaders did not recognize Jesus as the one the prophets had spoken about. Instead, they condemned him, and in doing this they fulfilled the prophets’ words that are read every Sabbath.
28. They found no legal reason to execute him, but they asked Pilate to have him killed anyway.
29. “When they had done all that the prophecies said 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 over a period of many days he appeared to those who had gone with him from Galilee to Jerusalem. They are now his witnesses to the people of Israel.
32. “And now we are here to bring you this Good News. The promise was made to our ancestors,