¹⁶ Then Paul stood up, and motioning with his hand said, “Men of Israel, and ^(A)you who fear God, listen: ¹⁷ The God of this people ^[a]Israel ^(B)chose our fathers, and exalted the people ^(C)when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with ^[b]an uplifted arm He ^(D)brought them out of it. ¹⁸ Now ^(E)for a time of about forty years He put up with their ways in the wilderness. ¹⁹ And when He had destroyed ^(F)seven nations in the land of Canaan, ^(G)He distributed their land to them by allotment.

²⁰ “After that ^(H)He gave them judges for about four hundred and fifty years, ^(I)until Samuel the prophet. ^21 (J)And afterward they asked for a king; so God gave them ^(K)Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years. ²² And ^(L)when He had removed him, ^(M)He raised up for them David as king, to whom also He gave testimony and said, ^(N)‘I have found David the son of Jesse, ^(O)a man after My own heart, who will do all My will.’ ^23 (P)From this man’s seed, according ^(Q)to the promise, God raised up for Israel ^(R)a^[c] Savior—Jesus— ^24 (S)after John had first preached, before His coming, the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel. ²⁵ And as John was finishing his course, he said, ^(T)‘Who do you think I am? I am not He. But behold, ^(U)there comes One after me, the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to loose.’