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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 uplifted arm He brought them out of it.
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Now for a time of about forty years He put up with their ways in the wilderness.
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And when He had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, He distributed their land to them by allotment.
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After that He gave them judges for about four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet.
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And afterward they asked for a king; so God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.
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And when He had removed him, He raised up for them David as king, to whom also He gave testimony and said, 'I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after My own heart, who will do all My will.'
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From this man's seed, according to the promise, God raised up for Israel a Savior--Jesus--
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after John had first preached, before His coming, the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.
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And as John was finishing his course, he said, 'Who do you think I am? I am not He. But behold, there comes One after me, the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to loose.'
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Men and brethren, sons of the family of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, to you the word of this salvation has been sent.
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For those who dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they did not know Him, nor even the voices of the Prophets which are read every Sabbath, have fulfilled them in condemning Him.
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And though they found no cause for death in Him, they asked Pilate that He should be put to death.
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Now when they had fulfilled all that was written concerning Him, they took Him down from the tree and laid Him in a tomb.
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But God raised Him from the dead.
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He was seen for many days by those who came up with Him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are His witnesses to the people.
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And we declare to you glad tidings--that promise which was made to the fathers.
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God has fulfilled this for us their children, in that He has raised up Jesus. As it is also written in the second Psalm: 'You are My Son, Today I have begotten You.'
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And that He raised Him from the dead, no more to return to corruption, He has spoken thus: 'I will give you the sure mercies of David.'
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Therefore He also says in another Psalm: 'You will not allow Your Holy One to see corruption.'
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"For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell asleep, was buried with his fathers, and saw corruption;
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but He whom God raised up saw no corruption.