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And after the reading of the law and the prophets the princes of the synagogue sent unto them, saying,
Ye men
and brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, speak.
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Then Paul stood up, and beckoning with
his hand said, Men of Israel and ye that fear God hearken.
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The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with a high arm he brought them out of it.
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And
for the time of about forty years, he suffered their manners in the wilderness.
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And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he divided their land to them by lot.
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And after that he gave
unto them judges about the space of four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet.
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And afterward they asked for a king, and God gave unto them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.
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And when he had removed him, he raised up unto them David to be their king, to whom also he gave testimony, saying, I have found David, the
son of Jesse, a man after my own heart, who shall fulfil all my will.
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Of this man’s seed has God according to
his promise raised up Jesus as Saviour unto Israel:
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John, having first proclaimed before his coming, the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.
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And as John fulfilled his course, he said, Whom think ye that I am? I am not
he. But, behold, there comes one after me, whose shoes of his feet I am not worthy to loose.