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But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day and sat down.
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And after the reading of the Law and the Prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, "Men and brethren, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, say on."
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Then Paul stood up, and motioning with his hand said, "Men of Israel, and you who fear God, listen:
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The God of this people Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with an uplifted arm He brought them out of it.
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Now for a time of about forty years He put up with their ways in the wilderness.
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And when He had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, He distributed their land to them by allotment.
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After that He gave them judges for about four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet.
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And afterward they asked for a king; so God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.
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And when He had removed him, He raised up for them David as king, to whom also He gave testimony and said, 'I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after My own heart, who will do all My will.'
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From this man's seed, according to the promise, God raised up for Israel a Savior--Jesus--
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after John had first preached, before His coming, the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.