013:023 "It is from among David's descendants that God, in fulfilment
of His promise, has raised up a Saviour for Israel, even Jesus.
013:024 Before the coming of Jesus, John had proclaimed to all the people
of Israel a baptism of repentance.
013:025 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.'
013:026 "Brethren, descendants of the family of Abraham, and all among
you who fear God, to us has this Message of salvation been sent.
013:027 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.
013:028 Without having found Him guilty of any capital offence they
urged Pilate to have Him put to death;
013:029 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.
013:030 "But God raised Him from the dead.
013:031 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.
013:032 And we bring you the Good News about the promise made
to our forefathers,
013:033 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.'
013:034 And as to His having raised Him from among the dead, never again
to be in the position of one soon to return to decay,