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Brothers, children of Abraham’s family, and you who also fear God, this message of salvation has been sent to you.

It is a fact that the inhabitants of Jerusalem and their leaders did not recognize Jesus. Yet, in condemning him, they fulfilled the words of the prophets read every Sabbath, but not understood.

Even though they found no charge against him worthy of death, they asked Pilate to have him executed.

After they had carried out all that was written about him, they took him down from the cross and laid him in a tomb.

But God raised him from the dead,

and for many days afterward, he showed himself to those who had come with him from Galilee to Jerusalem. They have now become his witnesses before the people.

We, ourselves, announce to you this good news:

All that God promised our ancestors, he has fulfilled for us, their descendants, by raising Jesus, as it is written in the second Psalm: ‘You are my Son; today I have begotten you.’