Acts 13:14–52

¹⁴But going on from Perga, they arrived at ^aPisidian ^bAntioch, and on ^cthe Sabbath day they went into ^dthe synagogue and sat down.

¹⁵After ^athe reading of the Law and ^bthe Prophets ^cthe synagogue officials sent to them, saying, “Brethren, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, say it.”

¹⁶Paul stood up, and ^amotioning with his hand said,

“Men of Israel, and ^byou who fear God, listen:

¹⁷“The God of this people Israel ^achose our fathers and ^1bmade the people great during their stay in the land of Egypt, and with an uplifted arm ^cHe led them out from it.

¹⁸“For ^aa period of about forty years ^bHe put up with them in the wilderness.

¹⁹“^aWhen He had destroyed ^bseven nations in the land of Canaan, He ^cdistributed their land as an inheritance—all of which took ^dabout four hundred and fifty years.

²⁰“After these things He ^agave them judges until ^bSamuel the prophet.

²¹“Then they ^aasked for a king, and God gave them ^bSaul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.

²²“After He had ^aremoved him, He raised up David to be their king, concerning whom He also testified and said, ‘^bI have found David the son of Jesse, a man after My heart, who will do all My ¹will.’

²³“^aFrom the descendants of this man, ^baccording to promise, God has brought to Israel ^ca Savior, Jesus,

²⁴after ^aJohn had proclaimed before ¹His coming a ^bbaptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.

²⁵“And while John ^awas completing his course, ^bhe kept saying, ‘What do you suppose that I am? I am not He. But behold, one is coming after me the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.’

²⁶“Brethren, sons of Abraham’s family, and those among you who fear God, to us the message of ^athis salvation has been sent.

²⁷“For those who live in Jerusalem, and their ^arulers, ^brecognizing neither Him nor the ¹utterances of ^cthe prophets which are ^dread every Sabbath, fulfilled these by condemning Him.

²⁸“And though they found no ground for putting Him to death, they ^aasked Pilate that He be ¹executed.

²⁹“When they had ^acarried out all that was written concerning Him, ^bthey took Him down from ^cthe ¹cross and ^dlaid Him in a tomb.

³⁰“But God ^araised Him from the dead;

³¹and for many days ^aHe appeared to those who came up with Him from Galilee to Jerusalem, the very ones who are now ^bHis witnesses to the people.

³²“And we ^apreach to you the good news of ^bthe promise made to the fathers,

³³that God has fulfilled this promise ¹to our children in that He ^araised up Jesus, as it is also written in the second Psalm, ‘^bYou are My Son; today i have begotten You.’

³⁴“As for the fact that He ^araised Him up from the dead, no longer to return to decay, He has spoken in this way: ‘^bI will give you the holy and ¹sure blessings of David.’

³⁵“Therefore He also says in another Psalm, ‘^aYou will not ¹allow Your ²Holy One to ³undergo decay.’

³⁶“For ^aDavid, after he had ¹served ^bthe purpose of God in his own generation, ^cfell asleep, and was laid among his fathers and ²underwent decay;

³⁷but He whom God ^araised did not ¹undergo decay.

³⁸“Therefore let it be known to you, brethren, that ^athrough ¹Him forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you,

³⁹and ¹through Him ^aeveryone who believes is ²freed ³from all things, from which you could not be freed through the Law of Moses.

⁴⁰“Therefore take heed, so that the thing spoken of ^ain the Prophets may not come upon you:

⁴¹‘^aBehold, you scoffers, and marvel, and ¹perish;

For I am accomplishing a work in your days,

A work which you will never believe, though someone should describe it to you.’ ”

⁴²As ¹Paul and Barnabas were going out, the people kept begging that these ²things might be spoken to them the next ^aSabbath.

⁴³Now when the meeting of the synagogue had broken up, many of the Jews and of the ^aGod-fearing ^1bproselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who, speaking to them, were urging them to continue in ^cthe grace of God.

Paul Turns to the Gentiles

⁴⁴The next ^aSabbath nearly the whole city assembled to hear the word of ¹the Lord.

⁴⁵But when ^athe Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and began contradicting the things spoken by Paul, and were ¹blaspheming.

⁴⁶Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly and said, “It was necessary that the word of God be spoken to you ^afirst; since you repudiate it and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, ^bwe are turning to the Gentiles.

⁴⁷“For so the Lord has commanded us,

‘^aI have placed You as a ^blight for the Gentiles,

That You may ¹bring salvation to the end of the earth.’ ”

⁴⁸When the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying ^athe word of ¹the Lord; and as many as ^bhad been appointed to eternal life believed.

⁴⁹And ^athe word of the Lord was being spread through the whole region.

⁵⁰But ^athe Jews incited the ^1bdevout women ^cof prominence and the leading men of the city, and instigated a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and drove them out of their ²district.

⁵¹But ^athey shook off the dust of their feet in protest against them and went to ^bIconium.

⁵²And the disciples were continually ^afilled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.