20. All this took about 450 years.‘After this, God gave them judges until the time of Samuel the prophet.
21. Then the people asked for a king, and he gave them Saul son of Kish, of the tribe of Benjamin, who ruled for forty years.
22. After removing Saul, he made David their king. God testified concerning him: “I have found David son of Jesse, a man after my own heart; he will do everything I want him to do.”
23. ‘From this man’s descendants God has brought to Israel the Saviour Jesus, as he promised.
24. Before the coming of Jesus, John preached repentance and baptism to all the people of Israel.
25. As John was completing his work, he said: “Who do you suppose I am? I am not the one you are looking for. But there is one coming after me whose sandals I am not worthy to untie.”
26. ‘Fellow children of Abraham and you God-fearing Gentiles, it is to us that this message of salvation has been sent.
27. The people of Jerusalem and their rulers did not recognise Jesus, yet in condemning him they fulfilled the words of the prophets that are read every Sabbath.
28. Though they found no proper ground for a death sentence, they asked Pilate to have him executed.
29. When they had carried out all that was written about him, they took him down from the cross and laid him in a tomb.
30. But God raised him from the dead,