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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!
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He appeared for many days to those who had come up with him from the Galil to Yerushalayim; and they are now his witnesses to the people.
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"As for us, we are bringing you the Good News that what God promised to the fathers,
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he has fulfilled for us the children in raising up Yeshua, as indeed it is written in the second Psalm, 'You are my Son; today I have become your Father.'