and you who fear God, listen. 013:017 The God of this people{TR, NU add "Israel"} chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they stayed as aliens in the land of Egypt, and with an uplifted arm, he led them out of it. 013:018 For a period of about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness. 013:019 When he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them their land for an inheritance, for about four hundred fifty years. 013:020 After these things he gave them judges until Samuel the prophet. 013:021 Afterward they asked for a king, and God gave to them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years. 013:022 When he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king, to whom he also testified, 'I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after my heart, who will do all my will.' 013:023 From this man's seed, God has brought salvation{TR, NU read "a Savior, Jesus" instead of "salvation"} to Israel according to his promise, 013:024 before his coming, when John had first preached the baptism of repentance to Israel.{TR, NU read "to all the people of Israel" instead of "to Israel"} 013:025 As John was fulfilling his course, he said, 'What do you suppose that I am? I am not he. But behold, one comes after me the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.' 013:026 Brothers, children of the stock of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, the word of this salvation is sent out to you. 013:027 For those who dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they didn't know him, nor the voices of the prophets which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him. 013:028 Though they found no cause for death, they still asked Pilate to have him killed. 013:029 When they had fulfilled all things that were written about him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a tomb. 013:030 But God raised him from the dead, 013:031 and he was seen for many days by those who came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses to the people. 013:032 We bring you good news of the promise made to the fathers, 013:033 that God has fulfilled the same to us, their children, in that he raised up Jesus. As it is also written in the second psalm, 'You are my Son. Today I have become your father.'{Psalm 2:7} 013:034 "Concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he has spoken thus: 'I will give you the holy and sure blessings of David.'{Isaiah 55:3} 013:035 Therefore he says also in another psalm, 'You will not allow your Holy One to see decay.'{Psalm 16:10} 013:036 For David, after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell asleep, and was laid with his fathers, and saw decay.