him.

13:29. And when they had fulfilled all things that were written of him,
taking him down from the tree, they laid him in a sepulchre.

13:30. But God raised him up from the dead the third day.

13:31. Who was seen for many days by them who came up with him from
Galilee to Jerusalem, who to this present are his witnesses to the
people.

13:32. And we declare unto you that the promise which was made to our
fathers,

13:33. This same God hath fulfilled to our children, raising up Jesus,
as in the second psalm also is written: Thou art my Son: this day have I
begotten thee.

13:34. And to shew that he raised him up from the dead, not to return
now any more to corruption, he said thus: I will give you the holy
things of David, faithful.

I will give you the holy, etc... These are the words of the prophet
Isaias, 55. 3. According to the Septuagint, the sense is: I will
faithfully fulfil the promises I made to David.

13:35. And therefore, in another place also, he saith: Thou shalt not
suffer thy holy one to see corruption.

13:36. For David, when he had served in his generation, according to the
will of God, slept: and was laid unto his fathers and saw corruption.

13:37. But he whom God hath raised from the dead saw no corruption.

13:38. Be it known therefore to you, men, brethren, that through him
forgiveness of sins is preached to you: and from all the things from
which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.

13:39. In him every one that believeth is justified.

13:40. Beware, therefore, lest that come upon you which is spoken in the
prophets:

13:41. Behold, ye despisers, and wonder and perish: for I work a work in
your days, a work which you will not believe, if any man shall tell it
you.

13:42. And as they went out, they desired them that on the next sabbath
they would speak unto them these words.

13:43. And when the synagogue was broken up, many of the Jews and of the
strangers who served God followed Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking to
them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.

13:44. But the next sabbath day, the whole city almost came together, to
hear the word of God.

13:45. And the Jews, seeing the multitudes, were filled with envy and
contradicted those things which were said by Paul, blaspheming.

13:46. Then Paul and Barnabas said boldly: To you it behoved us first to
speak the word of God: but because you reject it and judge yourselves
unworthy of eterna