36. For David served God's purposes in his own time, and then he died, was buried with his ancestors, and his body rotted in the grave.
37. But this did not happen to the one whom God raised from death.
38-39. We want you to know, my fellow-Israelites, that it is through Jesus that the message about forgiveness of sins is preached to you; and that everyone who believes in him is set free from all the sins from which the Law of Moses could not set you free.