13. Now when Paul and his company loosed from Paphos, they came to Perga in Pamphylia. And John departing from them, returned to Jerusalem.
14. But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the sabbath, and sat down.
15. And after the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, Men, brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, speak.
16. Then Paul stood up, and beckoning with his hand, said, Men of Israel, and ye that fear God, give audience.
17. The God of this people Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with a high arm he brought them out of it.
18. And about the time of forty years he suffered their manners in the wilderness.
19. And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he divided their land to them by lot.
20. And after that he gave to them judges, about the space of four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet.
21. And afterward they desired a king: and God gave to them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty years.
22. And when he had removed him, he raised up to them David to be their king: to whom also he gave testimony, and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after my own heart, who shall fulfill all my will.
23. Of this man's offspring hath God, according to his promise, raised up to Israel a Savior, Jesus:
24. John having first preached, before his coming, the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.
25. And as John fulfilled his course, he said, Whom think ye that I am? I am not he. But behold, there cometh one after me, whose shoes of his feet I am not worthy to loose.
26. Men, brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whoever among you feareth God, to you is the word of this salvation sent.
27. For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the words of the prophets which are read every sabbath, they have fulfilled them in condemning him.
28. And though they found no cause of death in him, yet they desired Pilate that he should be put to death.
29. And when they had fulfilled all that was written concerning him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulcher.
30. But God raised him from the dead: