13. Now Paul and his company set sail from Paphos, and came to Perga in Pamphylia. Yochanan departed from them and returned to Jerusalem.
14. But they, passing on from Perga, came to Antioch of Pisidia. They went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and sat down.
15. After the reading of the Torah and the Prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, “Brothers, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, speak.”
16. Paul stood up, and beckoning with his hand said, “Men of Israel, and you who fear God, listen.
17. The God of this people chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they stayed as aliens in the land of Egypt, and with an uplifted arm, he led them out of it.
18. For a period of about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.
19. When he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them their land for an inheritance for about four hundred and fifty years.
20. After these things, he gave them judges until Samuel the prophet.