Of this man's descendants has God according to his promise raised unto Israel a Savior, Jesus:
All Commentaries on Acts 13:23 Go To Acts 13
John Chrysostom
AD 407
(c) the name of David was dear to them; well then, is it not (a thing to be desired) that a son of his, he says, should be their king?— (b) then he adduces John: then again the prophets, where he says, By condemning they fulfilled, and again, All that was written: then the Apostles as witnesses of the Resurrection: then David bearing witness. For neither the Old Testament proofs seemed so cogent when taken by themselves as they are in this way, nor yet the latter testimonies apart from the former: wherefore he makes them mutually confirm each other. Men and brethren, etc.
