Jean Ann Williams | Author

“‘For David, after he had served the purpose of God in his own generation, fell asleep and was laid with his fathers and saw corruption, but he [Jesus] whom God raised up did not see corruption’” (Acts 13:36, 37 ESV).  Father, this is why we need to follow Jesus. He is our example. He is You with […]

“‘And as for the fact that he [God] raised him [Jesus] from the dead, no more to return to corruption, he has spoken in this way, ‘I will give you the holy and sure blessings of David.’ Therefore he says also in another psalm, ‘You will not let your Holy One see corruption’” (Acts 13:34, 35 ESV). […]

“‘. . . and for many days he [Jesus] appeared to those who had come up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now his witnesses to the people.  And we bring you the good news that what God promised to the fathers, this he has fulfilled to us their children by raising Jesus, as […]

“‘And though they [Jerusalem and their rulers] found in him [Jesus] no guilt worthy of death, they asked Pilate to have him executed. And when they had carried out all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree and laid him in a tomb. But God raised him from the dead . . […]

“‘Brothers, sons of the family of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, to us has been sent the message of this salvation. For those who live in Jerusalem and their rulers, because they did not recognize him [Jesus] nor understand the utterances of the prophets, which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning […]

“‘Before his [Jesus’] coming, John [the baptist] had proclaimed a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel. And as John was finishing his course, he said, ‘What do you suppose that I am? I am not he [Messiah Jesus]. No, but behold, after me one is coming, the sandals of whose feet I am […]

“‘And when he [God] had removed him [king Saul], he raised up David to be their king, of whom he testified and said, ‘I have found in David the son of Jesse a man after my heart, who will do all my will.’ Of this man’s offspring God has brought to Israel a Savior, Jesus, as […]

“And after destroying seven nations in the land of Canaan, he [God] gave them [Hebrews] their land as an inheritance. All this took about 450 years. And after that he gave them judges until Samuel the prophet. Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe […]

“So Paul stood up, and motioning with his hand said: ‘Men of Israel and you who fear God, listen. The God of this people Israel chose our fathers and made the people great during their stay in the land of Egypt, and with uplifted arm he led them out of it. And for about forty years he […]

“[Paul] and said [to the magician], ‘You son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, full of all deceit and villainy, will you not stop making crooked the straight paths of the Lord? And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon you, and you will be blind and unable to see the sun […]