24. Before His coming, John had proclaimed an immersion of repentance to all the people of Israel.
25. As John was completing his service, he said, ‘What do you suppose me to be? I am not He. But behold, One is coming after me, whose sandal I’m not worthy to untie.’
26. “Brothers, sons of the family of Abraham and those among you who are God-fearers, it is to us the message of this salvation has been sent.
27. For those who live in Jerusalem and their rulers—not recognizing Him or the sayings of the Prophets that are read every Shabbat—fulfilled these words by condemning Him.
28. Though they found no charge worthy of a death sentence, they asked Pilate to have Him executed.
29. When they had carried out all that had been written about Him, they took Him down from the tree and laid Him in a tomb.
30. But God raised Him from the dead!
31. For many days He appeared to those who had come up from the Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now His witnesses to the people.
32. “And we proclaim to you Good News—the promise to the fathers has arrived!
33. For God has fulfilled this promise to the children—to us—by raising up Yeshua, as it is also written in the second psalm: ‘You are My Son. Today I have become Your Father.’
34. “But since He raised Him up from the dead, never to return to decay, He has spoken in this way, ‘I will give you the holy and sure mercies of David.’
35. Therefore He also says in another psalm, ‘You will not permit Your Holy One to see decay.’
36. For after David had served God’s purpose in his own generation, he went to sleep and was laid with his fathers and saw decay.
37. But the One whom God raised up did not see decay.
38. “Therefore, let it be known to you, brothers, that through this One is proclaimed to you the removal of sins, including all those from which you could not be set right by the Torah of Moses.