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`And after these things, about four hundred and fifty years, He gave judges -- till Samuel the prophet;
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and thereafter they asked for a king, and God did give to them Saul, son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years;
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and having removed him, He did raise up to them David for king, to whom also having testified, he said, I found David, the [son] of Jesse, a man according to My heart, who shall do all My will.
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`Of this one's seed God, according to promise, did raise to Israel a Saviour -- Jesus,
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John having first preached, before his coming, a baptism of reformation to all the people of Israel;
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and as John was fulfilling the course, he said, Whom me do ye suppose to be? I am not [he], but, lo, he doth come after me, of whom I am not worthy to loose the sandal of [his] feet.
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`Men, brethren, sons of the race of Abraham, and those among you fearing God, to you was the word of this salvation sent,
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for those dwelling in Jerusalem, and their chiefs, this one not having known, also the voices of the prophets, which every sabbath are being read -- having judged [him] -- did fulfill,
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and no cause of death having found, they did ask of Pilate that he should be slain,
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and when they did complete all the things written about him, having taken [him] down from the tree, they laid him in a tomb;
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and God did raise him out of the dead,