Common English Bible

Acts Of The Apostles 13:26-31 Common English Bible (CEB)

26. “Brothers, children of Abraham’s family, and you Gentile God-worshippers, the message about this salvation has been sent to us.

27. The people in Jerusalem and their leaders didn’t recognize Jesus. By condemning him they fulfilled the words of the prophets that are read every Sabbath.

28. Even though they didn’t find a single legal basis for the death penalty, they asked Pilate to have him executed.

29. When they finished doing everything that had been written about him, they took him down from the cross and laid him in a tomb.

30. But God raised him from the dead!

31. He appeared over many days to those who had traveled with him from Galilee to Jerusalem. They are now his witnesses to the people.