14 But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and sat down.
15 And after the reading of the law and the prophets the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, Men, brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, say on.
16 Then Paul stood up, and beckoning with his hand said, Men of Israel, and ye that fear God, listen.
17 The God of this people Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with an high arm he brought them out of it.
18 And about the time of forty years he bore their manners in the wilderness. [1]
19 And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he divided their land to them by lot.
20 And after these things, which took about four hundred and fifty years, he gave to them judges, until Samuel the prophet.
21 And afterward they desired a king: and God gave to them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty years.
22 And when he had removed him, he raised up to them David to be their king; to whom also he gave testimony, and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after my own heart, who shall fulfil all my will.
23 Of this man’s seed hath God according to his promise raised up to Israel a Saviour, Jesus:
24 After John had first preached before his coming the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.
25 And as John fulfilled his course, he said, Whom think ye that I am? I am not he . But, behold, there cometh one after me, whose shoes of his feet I am not worthy to loose.
26 Men, brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whoever among you feareth God, to you is the word of this salvation sent.
27 For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the words of the prophets which are read every sabbath, they have fulfilled them in condemning him .
28 And though they found no cause of death in him, yet they desired Pilate that he should be put to death.
29 And when they had fulfilled all that was written concerning him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre.
30 But God raised him from the dead:
31 And he was seen many days by them who came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses to the people.
32 And we declare to you the glad tidings, that the promise which was made to the fathers,
33 God hath fulfilled the same to us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.
34 And as concerning that he raised him from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he said in this way, I will give you the sure mercies of David. [2]
35 Therefore he saith also in another psalm, Thou shalt not allow thy Holy One to see corruption.
36 For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell asleep, and was laid to his fathers, and saw corruption: [3]
37 But he, whom God raised again, saw no corruption.
38 Be it known to you therefore, men, brethren, that through this man is preached to you the forgiveness of sins:
39 And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.
40 Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken in the prophets;
41 Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall by no means believe, though a man declare it to you.
42 And when the Jews had gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles besought that these words might be preached to them the next sabbath. [4]
43 Now when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.
44 And the next sabbath came almost the whole city together to hear the word of God.
45 But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spoke against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.
46 Then Paul and Barnabas became bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first be spoken to you: but seeing ye reject it, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.
47 For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation to the ends of the earth.
48 And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.
49 And the word of the Lord was proclaimed throughout all the region.
50 But the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women, and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and drove them out of their land.
51 But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came to Iconium.
52 And the disciples were filled with joy, and with the Holy Spirit.
- ↑ suffered...: or bore, or fed them as a nurse beareth, or feedeth, her child
- ↑ mercies: Gr. holy, or just things: which word the Septuagint in many places, uses for that which is in the Hebrew, mercies
- ↑ after...: or, after he had in his own age served the will of God
- ↑ the next...: Gr. in the week between, or, in the sabbath between
