The Promised Savior: Jesus Fulfills the Davidic Covenant

¹³ After setting sail from Paphos, Paul and his companions came to Perga in Pamphylia, where John left them to return to Jerusalem.

¹⁴ And from Perga, they traveled inland to Pisidian Antioch, where they entered the synagogue on the Sabbath and sat down.

¹⁵ After the reading from the Law and the Prophets, the synagogue leaders sent word to them: “Brothers, if you have a word of encouragement for the people, please speak.”

¹⁶ Paul stood up, motioned with his hand, and began to speak: “Men of Israel and you Gentiles who fear God, listen to me!

¹⁷ The God of the people of Israel chose our fathers. He made them into a great people during their stay in Egypt, and with an uplifted arm He led them out of that land.

¹⁸ He endured their conduct for about forty years in the wilderness.

¹⁹ And having vanquished seven nations in Canaan, He gave their land to His people as an inheritance.

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 God gave them Saul son of Kish, from the tribe of Benjamin, who ruled forty years.

²² After removing Saul, He raised up David as their king and testified about him: ‘I have found David son of Jesse a man after My own heart; he will carry out My will in its entirety.’

²³ From the descendants of this man, God has brought to Israel the Savior Jesus, as He promised.

²⁴ Before the arrival of Jesus, John preached a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.

²⁵ As John was completing his course, he said, ‘Who do you suppose I am? I am not that One. But there is One coming after me whose sandals I am not worthy to untie.’

²⁶ Brothers, children of Abraham, and you Gentiles who fear God, it is to us that this message of salvation has been sent.

²⁷ The people of Jerusalem and their rulers did not recognize Jesus, yet in condemning Him they fulfilled the words of the prophets that are read every Sabbath.

²⁸ And though they found no 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 tree and laid Him in a tomb.

³⁰ But God raised Him from the dead,

³¹ and for many days He was seen by those who had accompanied Him from Galilee to Jerusalem. They are now His witnesses to our people.

³² And now we proclaim to you the good news: What God promised our fathers

³³ He has fulfilled for us, their children, by raising up Jesus. As it is written in the second Psalm: ‘You are My Son; today I have become Your Father.’

³⁴ In fact, God raised Him from the dead, never to see decay. As He has said: ‘I will give you the holy and sure blessings promised to David.’

³⁵ So also, He says in another Psalm: ‘You will not let Your Holy One see decay.’

³⁶ For when David had served God’s purpose in his own generation, he fell asleep. His body was buried with his fathers and saw decay.

³⁷ But the One whom God raised from the dead did not see decay.

³⁸ Therefore let it be known to you, brothers, that through Jesus the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you.

³⁹ Through Him everyone who believes is justified from everything from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.

⁴⁰ Watch out, then, that what was spoken by the prophets does not happen to you:

⁴¹ ‘Look, you scoffers, wonder and perish! For I am doing a work in your days that you would never believe, even if someone told you.’”