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Acts - ch 13 v 21 - 40
- And after that they desired a king: and God gave them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, forty years.
- And when he had removed him, he raised them up David to be king: to whom giving testimony, he said: I have found David, the son of Jesse, a man according to my own heart, who shall do all my wills.
- Of this man's seed God according to his promise, hath raised up to Israel a Saviour, Jesus:
- John first preaching, before his coming, the baptism of penance to all the people of Israel.
- And when John was fulfilling his course, he said: I am not he, whom you think me to be: but behold, there cometh one after me, whose shoes of his feet I am not worthy to loose.
- Men, brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you fear God, to you the word of this salvation is sent.
- For they that inhabited Jerusalem, and the rulers thereof, not knowing him, nor the voices of the prophets, which are read every sabbath, judging him have fulfilled them.
- And finding no cause of death in him, they desired of Pilate, that they might kill him.
- And when they had fulfilled all things that were written of him, taking him down from the tree, they laid him in a sepulchre.
- But God raised him up from the dead the third day:
- Who was seen for many days, by them who came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who to this present are his witnesses to the people.
- And we declare unto you, that the promise which was made to our fathers,
- This same God hath fulfilled to our children, raising up Jesus, as in the second psalm also is written: Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.
- And to shew that he raised him up from the dead, not to return now any more to corruption, he said thus: I will give you the holy things of David faithful.
- And therefore, in another place also, he saith: Thou shalt not suffer thy holy one to see corruption.
- For David, when he had served in his generation, according to the will of God, slept: and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption.
- But he whom God hath raised from the dead, saw no corruption.
- Be it known therefore to you, men, brethren, that through him forgiveness of sins is preached to you: and from all the things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.
- In him every one that believeth, is justified.
- Beware, therefore, lest that come upon you which is spoken in the prophets:
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