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22 After God took him away, God made David their king. This is what God said about him: ‘I have found David son of Jesse. He is the kind of man I want. He will do all that I want him to do.’ 23 So God has brought one of David’s descendants to Israel to be their Savior. That descendant is Jesus. And God promised to do this. 24 Before Jesus came, John[a] preached to all the people of Israel. He told them about a baptism of changed hearts and lives.

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  1. 13:24 John John the Baptist, who preached to people about Christ’s coming (Matthew 3; Luke 3).

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