The Promise Through Israel

16So Paul stood up, and motioning with his hand said, “Men of Israel and you who fear God, listen.”

17The God of this people Israel chose our fathers, and made the people great during their sojourn in the land of Egypt, and with an uplifted arm he led them out from it.

18And for about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.

19And after destroying seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them their land as an inheritance.

20For about four hundred and fifty years. And after these things he gave judges until Samuel the prophet.

21And from there they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul son of Kish, a man from the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.

22And after removing him, he raised up David for them as king, to whom he also bore witness and said, ‘I have found David the son of Jesse, a man according to my heart, who will do all my will.’

23From this man's offspring, God has brought to Israel a Savior, Jesus, according to promise.

24before his coming, John had proclaimed to all the people of Israel a baptism of reorientation toward God.

25And as John was completing his course, he kept saying, ‘What do you suppose me to be? I am not he. But look, one is coming after me, the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.’