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.
25. And what those prophets talked about is for you, their descendants. You have received the agreement that God made with your fathers. God said to your father Abraham, ‘Every nation on earth will be blessed through your descendants.’
26. God has sent his special servant Jesus. He sent him to you first. He sent him to bless you by causing each of you to turn away from your evil ways.”