Men and brethren Even all you who are children of the stock of Abraham Whether ye are my equals in years, or of more advanced age And whosoever among you feareth God Of whatever family or nation you may be; unto you is the word of this salvation sent A great and important salvation, which I am commissioned to preach and offer to mankind. For they that dwell at Jerusalem, &c. He here anticipates a strong objection, “Why did not the people at Jerusalem, and especially their rulers, believe?” They knew him not Though God bore a most convincing testimony to him by the wonderful miracles which he performed; nor yet the voices of the prophets They did not believe in him, because they understood not those very prophets whose writings they read or heard continually. Their very condemning him, innocent as he was, proves that they understood not the prophecies concerning him. And when they had Inadvertently, without intending any thing of the kind; fulfilled all that was written of him In such a circumstantial detail of particulars as is truly astonishing; they took him down from the tree On which he had expired in the midst of ignominy and torture; and laid him in a sepulchre Permitted his friends to bury him. But God raised him from the dead According to the prediction of the prophets, and also his own prediction, frequently repeated, which they had heard from him before; but the accomplishment of which they were unable to hinder. And he was seen many days After he was risen from the dead; of them which came up with him from Galilee A little before his death. This last journey both presupposes all the rest, and was the most important of all. Who are his witnesses to the people Of the Jews, among whom they still reside.
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Acts 13:26-31
26 Men and brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you feareth God, to you is the word of this salvation sent.
27 For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him.
28 And though they found no cause of death in him, yet desired they Pilate that he should be slain.
29 And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre.
30 But God raised him from the dead:
31 And he was seen many days of them which came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses unto the people.