Chapter 13, verses 18-29
18
For a period of about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.
19
When he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them their land for an inheritance, for about four hundred fifty years.
20
After these things he gave them judges until Samuel the prophet.
21
Afterward they asked for a king, and God gave to them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.
22
When he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king, to whom he also testified, ‘I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after my heart, who will do all my will.’
23
From this man’s seed, God has brought salvation to Israel according to his promise,
24
before his coming, when John had first preached the baptism of repentance to Israel.
25
As John was fulfilling his course, he said, ‘What do you suppose that I am? I am not he. But behold, one comes after me the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.’
26
Brothers, children of the stock of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, the word of this salvation is sent out to you.
27
For those who dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they didn’t know him, nor the voices of the prophets which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him.
28
Though they found no cause for death, they still asked Pilate to have him killed.
29
When they had fulfilled all things that were written about him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a tomb.
