18. And for about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.
19. And after destroying seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them their land as an inheritance.
20. All this took about 450 years. And after that he gave them judges until Samuel the prophet.
21. Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.
22. And when he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king, of whom he testified and said, ‘I have found in David the son of Jesse a man after my heart, who will do all my will.’
23. Of this man’s offspring God has brought to Israel a Savior, Jesus, as he promised.
24. Before his coming, John had proclaimed a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.
25. And as John was finishing his course, he said, ‘What do you suppose that I am? I am not he. No, but behold, after me one is coming, the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.’
26. “Brothers, sons of the family of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, to us has been sent the message of this salvation.
27. For those who live in Jerusalem and their rulers, because they did not recognize him nor understand the utterances of the prophets, which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him.
28. And though they found in him no guilt worthy of death, they asked Pilate to have him executed.