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All this took about 450 years. After that, he gave them judges, o down to the prophet Sh'mu'el.
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Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Sha'ul Ben-Kish, a man from the tribe of Binyamin. After forty years,
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God removed him and raised up David as king for them, making his approval known with these words, 'I found David Ben-Yishai to be a man after my own heart; he will do everything I want.'
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"In keeping with his promise, God has brought to Isra'el from this man's descendants a deliverer, Yeshua.
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Now before the coming of Yeshua, Yochanan proclaimed to all the people of Isra'el an immersion in connection with turning to God from sin.
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But as Yochanan was ending his work, he said, 'Who do you suppose I am? Well - I'm not! But after me is coming someone, the sandals of whose feet I am unworthy to untie.'
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"Brothers! - sons of Avraham and those among you who are 'God-fearers'! It is to us that the message of this deliverance has been sent!
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For the people living in Yerushalayim and their leaders did not recognize who Yeshua was or understand the message of the Prophets read every Shabbat, so they fulfilled that message by condemning him.
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They could not find any legitimate ground for a death sentence; nevertheless they asked Pilate to have him executed;
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and when they had carried out all the things written about him, he was taken down from the stakeq and placed in a tomb.
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"But God raised him from the dead!