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"Men of Israel, listen to thesewords: 1Jesus the Nazarene, 2a manattested to you by God with miracles and 3wonders and signswhichGodperformedthrough Him in your midst, just as you yourselvesknow -
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this Man, delivered over by the 4predeterminedplan and foreknowledge of God, 5you nailed to a cross by the hands of godlessmen and put Him to death.
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"But 6Godraised Him up again, putting an end to the agony of death, since it 7was impossible* for Him to be held in its power.
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"For Davidsays of Him, '8I SAW THE LORDALWAYS* IN MY PRESENCE; FOR HE IS AT MY RIGHTHAND, SO THAT I WILL NOT BE SHAKEN.
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'THEREFORE* MY HEART WAS GLAD AND MY TONGUEEXULTED; MOREOVER* MY FLESHALSO WILL LIVE IN HOPE;
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BECAUSE YOU WILL NOT ABANDON MY SOUL TO 9HADES, 10NORALLOW YOUR HOLYONE TO UNDERGODECAY.
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'YOU HAVE MADEKNOWN TO ME THE WAYS OF LIFE; YOU WILL MAKE ME FULL OF GLADNESS WITH YOUR PRESENCE.'
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"Brethren*, I mayconfidentlysay to you regarding the 11patriarchDavid that he both12died and 13was buried, and 14his tomb is with us to thisday.
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"And so, because he was 15a prophet and knew that 16GOD HAD SWORN TO HIM WITH AN OATH TO SEAT one OF HIS DESCENDANTS* ON HIS THRONE,
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he lookedahead and spoke of the resurrection of the Christ, that 17HE WAS NEITHERABANDONED TO HADES, NOR DID His fleshSUFFERDECAY.
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"ThisJesus18Godraised up again, to which we are all19witnesses.