He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was manifested in these last times for your sake.

For they said to you, “In the end time there will come scoffers, propelled by their own ungodly desires.”

For this is what the Lord has commanded us: ‘I have appointed you to be a light for the Gentiles, to bring salvation to the ends of the earth.’”

After God spoke long ago in various portions and in various ways to our ancestors through the prophets,

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the farthest parts of the earth.”