Acts 13:13–25

¹³Now when Paul and they that were with him had sailed from Paphos, they came to Perge in Pamphylia. And John departing from them, returned to Jerusalem.

¹⁴But they, passing through Perge, came to Antioch in Pisidia: and, entering into the Synagogue on the sabbath day, they sat down.

¹⁵And after the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying: Ye men, brethren, if you have any word of exhortation to make to the people, speak.

¹⁶Then Paul rising up and with his hand bespeaking silence, said: Ye men of Israel and you that fear God, give ear.

¹⁷The God of the people of Israel chose our fathers and exalted the people when they were sojourners in the land of Egypt: And with an high arm brought them out from thence:

¹⁸And for the space of forty years endured their manners in the desert:

¹⁹And, destroying seven nations in the land of Chaanan, divided their land among them by lot.

²⁰As it were, after four hundred and fifty years. And after these things, he gave unto them judges, until Samuel the prophet.

²¹And after that they desired a king: and God gave them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, forty years.

²²And 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.

²³Of this man’s seed, God, according to his promise, hath raised up to Israel a Saviour Jesus:

²⁴John first preaching, before his coming, the baptism of penance to all the people of Israel.

²⁵And 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.