Hearing I have heard Ephraim moaning over himself, saying, You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bull calf not trained . Turn me back, and I shall be turned; for You are Jehovah my God.
but you will receive power, the Holy Spirit having come upon you, and you will be witnesses of Me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.
but firstly to the ones in Damascus, and Jerusalem, and to all the region of Judea, and to the nations, I proclaimed the command to repent and to turn to God, practicing works worthy of repentance.
The “God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob,” “the God of our fathers,” Ex. 3:15 glorified His Servant Jesus, whom you gave over, and denied Him to the face of Pilate, judging to set that One free.
For Moses indeed said to the fathers, “The Lord your God will raise up to you a Prophet from among your brothers, One like me; you shall hear Him according to all things,” as many as He may speak to you. Deut. 18:15-16
You are sons of the prophets and of the covenant which God made to our fathers, saying to Abraham, “And in your Seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” Gen. 22:18
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the one according to His great mercy having regenerated us to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
not giving back evil for evil, or reviling against reviling; but, on the contrary, give blessing; knowing that you were called to this in order that you might inherit blessing.