13:16. Then Paul rising up and with his hand bespeaking silence, said: Ye men of Israel and you that fear God, give ear.
13:17. The God of the people of Israel chose our fathers and exalted the people when they were sojourners in the land of Egypt: And with an high arm brought them out from thence:
13:18. And for the space of forty years endured their manners in the desert:
13:19. And, destroying seven nations in the land of Chaanan, divided their land among them by lot.
13:20. As it were, after four hundred and fifty years. And after these things, he gave unto them judges, until Samuel the prophet.
13:21. And after that they desired a king: and God gave them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, forty years.
13:22. And when he had removed him, he raised them up David to be king: to whom giving testimony, he said: I have found David, the son of Jesse, a man according to my own heart, who shall do all my wills.
13:23. Of this man's seed, God, according to his promise, hath raised up to Israel a Saviour Jesus:
13:24. John first preaching, before his coming, the baptism of penance to all the people of Israel.
13:25. And when John was fulfilling his course, he said: I am not he whom you think me to be. But behold, there cometh one after me, whose shoes of his feet I am not worthy to loose.