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13:18 The synagogue o cials at Antioch in Pisidia (a city hundreds of miles from the city of Antioch in Syria) are open to hearing the words of these visitors from Jerusalem. After the reading of the Scriptures, they invite Paul to address them. He preaches Jesus to them in light of the Old Testament stories they know so well: the exile in Egypt, the wanderings in the desert, the entrance into Canaan, the coming of David as king. All of these, Paul says, prepared the way for Jesus, who is the ful llment of “the oracles of the prophets that are read sabbath after sabbath” (13:27).
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David playing for Saul by Lucas de Leyde (1509)
THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES 
up with* them in the desert.c
19When he had destroyed
seven nations in the land of
Canaan, he gave them their
land as an inheritanced 20at the
endofaboutfourhundredand
fty years.* After these things
he provided judges up to
Samuel [the] prophet.e 21Then
they asked for a king. God gave
tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.f 22Then he removed him and raised up David as their king; of him he testi ed, ‘I have found David, son of Jesse, a man after my own heart; he will carry out my every wish.’g 23From this man’s descendants God, according to his promise, has brought to Israel a savior, Jesus.h 24John heralded his coming by proclaiming a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel;i 25and as John was completing his course, he would say, ‘What do you suppose that I am? I am not he. Behold, one is coming after me; I am not worthy to unfasten the sandals of his feet.’j
26“My brothers, children of the family of Abraham, and those others among you who are God-fearing, to us this word of salvation has been sent. 27The inhabitants of Jerusalem and their leaders failed to recognize him, and by condemning him they ful lled the oracles of the prophets that are read sabbath after sabbath. 28For even though they found no grounds for a death sentence, they asked Pilate to have him put to death,k 29and when they had accomplished all that was written about him, they took him down from the tree and placed him in a tomb.l 30But God raised him from the dead,m 31and for many days he appeared to those who had come up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem.n These are [now] his witnesses before the people.* 32We ourselves are proclaiming this good
them Saul, son of Kish, a man from the
* [13:20] At the end of about four hundred and fty years: the manuscript tradition makes it uncertain whether the mention of four hundred and fty years refers to the sojourn in Egypt before the Exodus, the wilderness period and the time of the conquest (see Ex 12:40–41), as the translation here suggests, or to the time between the conquest and the time of Samuel, the period of the judges, if the text is read, “After these things, for about four hundred and fty years, he provided judges.”
* [13:31] The theme of the Galilean witnesses is a major one in the Gospel of Luke and in Acts and is used to signify the continuity between the teachings of Jesus and the teachings of the church and to guarantee the delity of the church’s teachings to the words of Jesus.
c. [13:18] Ex 16:1, 35; Nm 14:34.
d. [13:19] Dt 7:1; Jos 14:1–2.
e. [13:20] Jgs 2:16; 1 Sm 3:20.
f. [13:21] 1 Sm 8:5, 19; 9:16; 10:1,
20–21, 24; 11:15.
g. [13:22] 1 Sm 13:14; 16:12–13;
Ps 89:20–21.
h. [13:23] Is 11:1.
i. [13:24] Mt 3:1–2; Mk 1:4–5;
Lk 3:2–3.
j. [13:25] Mt 3:11; Mk 1:7; Lk 3:16;
Jn 1:20, 27.
k. [13:28] Mt 27:20, 22–23;
Mk 15:13–14; Lk 23:4, 14–15, 21–23; Jn 19:4–6, 15
l. [13:29] Mt 27:59–60; Mk 15:46; Lk 23:53; Jn 19:38, 41–42.
m. [13:30] 2:24, 32; 3:15; 4:10;
17:31.