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"It is from among David's descendants that God, in fulfilment of His promise, has raised up a Saviour for Israel, even Jesus.
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Before the coming of Jesus, John had proclaimed to all the people of Israel a baptism of repentance.
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But John, towards the end of his career, repeatedly asked the people, "`What do you suppose me to be? I am not the Christ. But there is One coming after me whose sandal I am not worthy to unfasten.'
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"Brethren, descendants of the family of Abraham, and all among you who fear God, to us has this Message of salvation been sent.
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For the people of Jerusalem and their rulers, by the judgement they pronounced on Jesus, have actually fulfilled the predictions of the Prophets which are read Sabbath after Sabbath, through ignorance of those predictions and of Him.
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Without having found Him guilty of any capital offence they urged Pilate to have Him put to death;
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and when they had carried out everything which had been written about Him, they took Him down from the cross and laid Him in a tomb.
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"But God raised Him from the dead.
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And, after a few days, He appeared to the people who had gone up with Him from Galilee to Jerusalem and are now witnesses concerning Him to the Jews.
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And we bring you the Good News about the promise made to our forefathers,
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that God has amply fulfilled it to our children in raising up Jesus; as it is also written in the second Psalm, `Thou art My Son: to-day I have become Thy Father.'