, if ye
have any word of exhortation for the people, speak.

(16)And Paul arose, and beckoning with the hand, said: Men of Israel,
and ye that fear God, hearken. (17)The God of this people of Israel
chose our fathers; and he exalted the people in their sojourn in the
land of Egypt, and with a high arm he brought them out of it. (18)And
about the time of forty years he nourished them[13:18] in the
wilderness. (19)And having destroyed seven nations in the land of
Canaan, he gave them their land as a possession, (20)about four
hundred and fifty years. And after that, he gave judges, until Samuel
the prophet. (21)And afterward they desired a king; and God gave them
Saul the Son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.
(22)And having removed him, he raised up for them David to be their
king; to whom also he gave testimony, saying: I found David the son of
Jesse, a man after my own heart, who will do all my will.

(23)Of the seed of this man, God, according to promise, raised up to
Israel a Savior, Jesus; (24)John having first preached, before his
entrance, the immersion of repentance to all the people of Israel.
(25)Now as John was finishing his course, he said: Whom do ye suppose
me to be? I am not he. But, behold, there comes one after me, the
sandal of whose feet I am not worthy to loose.

(26)Men, brethren, children of the race of Abraham, and whoever among
you fears God, to you the word of this salvation was sent forth.
(27)For they who dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, not knowing
him, nor the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day,
fulfilled them in condemning him. (28)And though they found no cause
of death, they demanded of Pilate that he should be slain. (29)And
when they had fulfilled all the things written of him, they took him
down from the tree, and laid him in a tomb. (30)But God raised him
from the dead. (31)And he was seen for many days by those who came up
with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now his witnesses unto the
people. (32)And we declare to you glad tidings of the promise made to
the fathers, (33)that God has fulfilled this to us their children, in
raising Jesus; as also it is written in the second psalm[13:33]:

Thou art my Son;
I this day have begotten thee.

(34)And that he raised him up from the dead to return no more to
corruption, he has thus spoken: I will give to you the holy, the sure
promises of David. (35)Wherefore also in another