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Acts 13 📜 📕 ↷
16 And Paul rising up, and with his hand beckoning for silence, said: Ye men of Israel, and you that fear God, harken.📜💬📚
17 The God of the people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they were sojourners in the land of AEgypt, and in a mighty arm brought them out thereof,📜💬📚
18 and for the space of forty years tolerated their manners in the desert.📜💬📚
19 And destroying seven nations in the land of Chanaan, by lot he divided their land among them,📜💬📚
20 as it were after four hundred and fifty years, and after these things he gave Judges, until Samuel the Prophet.📜💬📚
21 And thenceforth they desired a king: & he gave them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, forty years.📜💬📚
22 and removing 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 heart, who shall do all my wills.📜💬📚
23 Of his seed God according to his promise hath brought forth to Israel a Saviour JESUS,📜💬📚
24 John preaching before the face of his coming, baptism of penance to all the people of Israel.📜💬📚
25 And when John fulfilled his course, he said: Whom do you think me to be? I am not he: but behold there cometh after me, whose shoes of his feet I am not worthy to loose.📜💬📚
26 Men, brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, & they among you that fear God; to you the word of this salvation was sent.📜💬📚
27 For they that inhabited Jerusalem, and the princes thereof, not knowing him, nor the voices of the prophets that are read every Sabboth, judging have fulfilled them,📜💬📚
28 and finding no cause of death in him, desired of Pilate, that they might kill him.📜💬📚
29 And when they had consummated all things that were written of him, taking him down from the tree, they put him in a monument.📜💬📚
30 But God raised him up from the dead the third day:📜💬📚
31 who was seen for many days of them that came up together with him from Galilee into Jerusalem, who until this present are his witnesses to the people.📜💬📚
32 And we preach unto you that promise which was made to our fathers:📜💬📚
33 that God hath fulfilled this same to our children, raising up JESUS, as in the second Psalm also it is written: My Son art thou, this day have I begotten thee.📜💬📚
34 And that he raised him up from the dead, not to return now any more into corruption, thus he said: That I will give you the holy things of David faithful.📜💬📚
35 And therefore in another place also he saith: Thou shalt not give thy holy one to see corruption.📜💬📚
36 For David in his generation when he had served, according to the will of God slept: and he was laid to his fathers & saw corruption.📜💬📚
37 But he whom God hath raised up, saw no corruption.📜💬📚
38 Be it known therefore to you, men, brethren, that through him, forgiveness of sins is preached to you, from all the things from the which you could not be justified by the law of Moyses.📜💬📚
39 In him every one that believeth, is justified.📜💬📚
40 Take heed therefore lest that come upon you which is spoken in the prophets,📜💬📚
41 See ye contemners, and wonder, and perish: because I work a work in your days, a work which you will not believe, if any man shall tell it you.📜💬📚
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42 And they going forth, they desired them that the Sabboth following they would speak unto them these words.📜💬📚
43 And when the Synagogue was dismissed, many of the Jews, and of the strangers serving God, followed Paul & Barnabas: who speaking exhorted them to continue in the grace of God.📜💬📚
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