20. at the end of about four hundred and fifty years. After these things he provided judges up to Samuel [the] prophet.
21. Then they asked for a king. God gave them Saul, son of Kish, a man from the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.
22. Then he removed him and raised up David as their king; of him he testified, ‘I have found David, son of Jesse, a man after my own heart; he will carry out my every wish.’
23. From this man’s descendants God, according to his promise, has brought to Israel a savior, Jesus.
24. John heralded his coming by proclaiming a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel;
25. and as John was completing his course, he would say, ‘What do you suppose that I am? I am not he. Behold, one is coming after me; I am not worthy to unfasten the sandals of his feet.’
26. “My brothers, children of the family of Abraham, and those others among you who are God-fearing, to us this word of salvation has been sent.
27. The inhabitants of Jerusalem and their leaders failed to recognize him, and by condemning him they fulfilled the oracles of the prophets that are read sabbath after sabbath.
28. For even though they found no grounds for a death sentence, they asked Pilate to have him put to death,
29. and when they had accomplished all that was written about him, they took him down from the tree and placed him in a tomb.
30. But God raised him from the dead,
31. and for many days he appeared to those who had come up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem. These are [now] his witnesses before the people.
32. We ourselves are proclaiming this good news to you that what God promised our ancestors
33. he has brought to fulfillment for us, (their) children, by raising up Jesus, as it is written in the second psalm, ‘You are my son; this day I have begotten you.’
34. And that he raised him from the dead never to return to corruption he declared in this way, ‘I shall give you the benefits assured to David.’
35. That is why he also says in another psalm, ‘You will not suffer your holy one to see corruption.’
36. Now David, after he had served the will of God in his lifetime, fell asleep, was gathered to his ancestors, and did see corruption.
37. But the one whom God raised up did not see corruption.