17. “My brothers, I know that what you did to Jesus was done because you did not understand what you were doing. And your leaders did not understand any more than you did.
18. But God said these things would happen. Through the prophets he said that his Messiah would suffer and die. I have told you how God made this happen.
19. So you must change your hearts and lives. Come back to God, and he will forgive your sins.
20. Then the Lord will give you times of spiritual rest. He will send you Jesus, the one he chose to be the Messiah.
21. “But Jesus must stay in heaven until the time when all things will be made right again. God told about this time when he spoke long ago through his holy prophets.
22. Moses said, ‘The Lord your God will give you a prophet. That prophet will come from among your own people. He will be like me. You must obey everything he tells you.
23. And anyone who refuses to obey that prophet will die, separated from God’s people.’
24. “Samuel, and all the other prophets who spoke for God after Samuel, said that this time would come.