Repentance in Acts  13:24

16     Then Paul stood up, and beckoning with his hand said, Men of Israel, and ye that fear God, give audience.

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23     Of this man's seed hath God according to his promise raised unto Israel a Saviour, Jesus:

24     When John had first preached before his coming the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.

25     And as John fulfilled his course, he said, Whom think ye that I am? I am not he. But, behold, there cometh one after me, whose shoes of his feet I am not worthy to loose.

26     Men and brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you feareth God, to you is the word of this salvation sent.

27     For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him.

28     And though they found no cause of death in him, yet desired they Pilate that he should be slain.

29     And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre.

30     But God raised him from the dead:

31     And he was seen many days of them which came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses unto the people.

32     And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers,

33     God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.

34     And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, I will give you the sure mercies of David.

35     Wherefore he saith also in another psalm, Thou shalt not suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

36     For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:

37     But he, whom God raised again, saw no corruption.

38     Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins:

39     And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.

Subject Called to Repentance:   The men of Israel whom Paul addressed (vs. 16), by way of analogy of the repentance demanded by John the Baptist (vs. 24).

Object of Repentance:        The object of repentance is not expressly stated.  Since repentance means "a change of mind," we can only inferentially determine the object of repentance by determining the concepts or propositions about which men must change their mind.  The repentance that John the Baptist preached (vs. 24) is, (for the men to whom Paul is speaking, after the resurrection of Jesus), belief on Jesus (vs. 39), specifically, belief that Jesus was the Son of God (vs. 33) who was slain by Pilate (vs. 28), raised from the dead (vs. 30, 37) by which He offers forgiveness of sins (vs. 38) and justification (vs. 39).

Consequence of repentance:                 Forgiveness of sins (vs. 38) and justification (vs. 39).

Repentance in Acts 13:24