Acts 13:13–25

At Antioch in Pisidia

¹³Now when Paul and his party set sail from Paphos, they came to Perga in Pamphylia; and ^oJohn, departing from them, returned to Jerusalem. ¹⁴But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and ^pwent into the synagogue on the Sabbath day and sat down. ¹⁵And ^qafter the reading of the Law and the Prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, “Men and brethren, if you have ^rany word of ³exhortation for the people, say on.”

¹⁶Then Paul stood up, and motioning with his hand said, “Men of Israel, and ^syou who fear God, listen: ¹⁷The God of this people ⁴Israel ^tchose our fathers, and exalted the people ^uwhen they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with ⁵an uplifted arm He ^vbrought them out of it. ¹⁸Now ^wfor a time of about forty years He put up with their ways in the wilderness. ¹⁹And when He had destroyed ^xseven nations in the land of Canaan, ^yHe distributed their land to them by allotment.

²⁰“After that ^zHe gave them judges for about four hundred and fifty years, ^auntil Samuel the prophet. ^21bAnd afterward they asked for a king; so God gave them ^cSaul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years. ²²And ^dwhen He had removed him, ^eHe raised up for them David as king, to whom also He gave testimony and said, ^f‘I have found David the son of Jesse, ^ga man after My own heart, who will do all My will.’ ^23hFrom this man’s seed, according ⁱto the promise, God raised up for Israel ^ja ⁶Savior—Jesus—^24kafter John had first preached, before His coming, the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel. ²⁵And as John was finishing his course, he said, ^l‘Who do you think I am? I am not He. But behold, ^mthere comes One after me, the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to loose.’