Paul’s Address in the Synagogue. ^16 [a]So Paul got up, motioned with his hand, and said, “Fellow Israelites and you others who are God-fearing,^[b] listen. ¹⁷ The God of this people Israel chose our ancestors and exalted the people during their sojourn in the land of Egypt.^(A) With uplifted arm he led them out of it ¹⁸ and for about forty years he put up with^[c] them in the desert.^{(B) 19} When he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them their land as an inheritance^{(C) 20} at the end of about four hundred and fifty years.^[d] After these things he provided judges up to Samuel [the] prophet.^{(D) 21} Then they asked for a king. God gave them Saul, son of Kish, a man from the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.^{(E) 22} Then he removed him and raised up David as their king; of him he testified, ‘I have found David, son of Jesse, a man after my own heart; he will carry out my every wish.’^{(F) 23} From this man’s descendants God, according to his promise, has brought to Israel a savior, Jesus.^{(G) 24} John heralded his coming by proclaiming a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel;^{(H) 25} and as John was completing his course, he would say, ‘What do you suppose that I am? I am not he. Behold, one is coming after me; I am not worthy to unfasten the sandals of his feet.’^(I)

²⁶ “My brothers, children of the family of Abraham, and those others among you who are God-fearing, to us this word of salvation has been sent. ²⁷ The inhabitants of Jerusalem and their leaders failed to recognize him, and by condemning him they fulfilled the oracles of the prophets that are read sabbath after sabbath. ²⁸ For even though they found no grounds for a death sentence, they asked Pilate to have him put to death,^{(J) 29} and when they had accomplished all that was written about him, they took him down from the tree and placed him in a tomb.^{(K) 30} But God raised him from the dead,^{(L) 31} and for many days he appeared to those who had come up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem.^(M) These are [now] his witnesses before the people.^{[e] 32} We ourselves are proclaiming this good news to you that what God promised our ancestors ³³ he has brought to fulfillment for us, [their] children, by raising up Jesus, as it is written in the second psalm, ‘You are my son; this day I have begotten you.’^{(N) 34} And that he raised him from the dead never to return to corruption he declared in this way, ‘I shall give you the benefits assured to David.’^{(O) 35} That is why he also says in another psalm, ‘You will not suffer your holy one to see corruption.’^{(P) 36} Now David, after he had served the will of God in his lifetime, fell asleep, was gathered to his ancestors, and did see corruption.^{(Q) 37} But the one whom God raised up did not see corruption. ³⁸ You must know, my brothers, that through him forgiveness of sins is being proclaimed to you, [and] in regard to everything from which you could not be justified^[f] under the law of Moses, ³⁹ in him every believer is justified.^{(R) 40} Be careful, then, that what was said in the prophets not come about: