New English Translation

Acts 13:30-36 New English Translation (NET)

30. But God raised him from the dead,

31. and for many days he appeared to those who had accompanied him from Galilee to Jerusalem. These are now his witnesses to the people.

32. And we proclaim to you the good news about the promise to our ancestors,

33. that this promise God has fulfilled to us, their children, by raising Jesus, as also it is written in the second psalm, ‘You are my Son; today I have fathered you.’

34. But regarding the fact that he has raised Jesus from the dead, never again to be in a state of decay, God has spoken in this way: ‘I will give you the holy and trustworthy promises made to David.’

35. Therefore he also says in another psalm, ‘You will not permit your Holy One to experience decay.’

36. For David, after he had served God’s purpose in his own generation, died, was buried with his ancestors, and experienced decay,