013:017 The God of this people of Israel chose our forefathers, and made the people great during their stay in Egypt, until with wondrous power He brought them out from that land. 013:018 For a period of about forty years, He fed them, like a nurse, in the Desert. 013:019 Then, after overthrowing seven nations in the land of Canaan, He divided that country among them as their inheritance for about four hundred and fifty years; 013:020 and afterwards He gave them judges down to the time of the Prophet Samuel. 013:021 Next they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a Benjamite, who reigned forty years. 013:022 After removing him, He raised up David to be their king, to whom He also bore witness when He said, "`I have found David the son of Jesse, a man I love, who will obey all My commands.' 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, He speaks thus: `I will give you the holy and trustworthy promises made to David.' 013:035 Because in another Psalm also He says, `Thou wilt not give up Thy Holy One to undergo decay.'