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And it shall be that whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.'
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"Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested to you by God with mighty works and wonders and signs which God did through him in your midst, as you yourselves know--
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this Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men.
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But God raised him up, having loosed the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it.
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For David says concerning him, 'I saw the Lord always before me, for he is at my right hand that I may not be shaken;
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therefore my heart was glad, and my tongue rejoiced; moreover my flesh will dwell in hope.
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For thou wilt not abandon my soul to Hades, nor let thy Holy One see corruption.
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Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou wilt make me full of gladness with thy presence.'
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"Brethren, I may say to you confidently of the patriarch David that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.
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Being therefore a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that he would set one of his descendants upon his throne,
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he foresaw and spoke of the resurrection of the Christ, that he was not abandoned to Hades, nor did his flesh see corruption.