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And Paul, rising up and making a sign with the hand, said, Israelites, and ye that fear God, hearken.
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The God of this people Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people in their sojourn in [the] land of Egypt, and with a high arm brought them out of it,
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and for a time of about forty years he nursed them in the desert.
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And having destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them their land as an inheritance.
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And after these things he gave [them] judges till Samuel the prophet, [to the end of] about four hundred and fifty years.
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And then they asked for a king, and God gave to them Saul, son of Kis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, during forty years.
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And having removed him he raised up to them David for king, of whom also bearing witness he said, I have found David, the son of Jesse, a man after my heart, who shall do all my will.
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Of this man's seed according to promise has God brought to Israel a Saviour, Jesus;
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John having proclaimed before the face of his entry [among the people] [the] baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.
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And as John was fulfilling his course he said, Whom do ye suppose that I am? *I* am not [he]. But behold, there comes one after me, the sandal of whose feet I am not worthy to loose.
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Brethren, sons of Abraham's race, and those who among you fear God, to you has the word of this salvation been sent:
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for those who dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, not having known him, have fulfilled also the voices of the prophets which are read on every sabbath, [by] judging [him].
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And having found no cause of death [in him], they begged of Pilate that he might be slain.
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And when they had fulfilled all things written concerning him, they took him down from the cross and put him in a sepulchre;
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but God raised him from among [the] dead,
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who appeared for many days to those who had come up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now his witnesses to the people.
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And *we* declare unto you the glad tidings of the promise made to the fathers,
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that God has fulfilled this to us their children, having raised up Jesus; as it is also written in the second psalm, *Thou* art my Son: this day have *I* begotten thee.
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But that he raised him from among [the] dead, no more to return to corruption, he spoke thus: I will give to you the faithful mercies of David.
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Wherefore also he says in another, Thou wilt not suffer thy gracious one to see corruption.
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For David indeed, having in his own generation ministered to the will of God, fell asleep, and was added to his fathers and saw corruption.
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But he whom God raised up did not see corruption.
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Be it known unto you, therefore, brethren, that through this man remission of sins is preached to you,
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and from all things from which ye could not be justified in the law of Moses, in him every one that believes is justified.
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See therefore that that which is spoken in the prophets do not come upon [you],
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Behold, ye despisers, and wonder and perish; for *I* work a work in your days, a work which ye will in no wise believe if one declare it to you.