Acts 13:35-50

³⁵Wherefore also he says in another, Thou wilt not suffer thy gracious one to see corruption.

³⁶For David indeed, having in his own generation ministered to the will of God, fell asleep, and was added to his fathers and saw corruption.

³⁷But he whom God raised up did not see corruption.

³⁸Be it known unto you, therefore, brethren, that through this man remission of sins is preached to you,

³⁹and from all things from which ye could not be justified in the law of Moses, in him every one that believes is justified.

⁴⁰See therefore that that which is spoken in the prophets do not come upon you,

⁴¹Behold, ye despisers, and wonder and perish; for I work a work in your days, a work which ye will in no wise believe if one declare it to you.

⁴²And as they went out they begged that these words might be spoken to them the ensuing sabbath.

⁴³And the congregation of the synagogue having broken up, many of the Jews and of the worshipping proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.

⁴⁴And on the coming sabbath almost all the city was gathered together to hear the word of God.

⁴⁵But the Jews, seeing the crowds, were filled with envy, and contradicted the things said by Paul, contradicting and speaking injuriously.

⁴⁶And Paul and Barnabas spoke boldly and said, It was necessary that the word of God should be first spoken to you; but, since ye thrust it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, lo, we turn to the nations;

⁴⁷for thus has the Lord enjoined us: I have set thee for a light of the nations, that thou shouldest be for salvation to the end of the earth.

⁴⁸And those of the nations, hearing it, rejoiced, and glorified the word of the Lord, and believed, as many as were ordained to eternal life.

⁴⁹And the word of the Lord was carried through the whole country.

⁵⁰But the Jews excited the women of the upper classes who were worshippers, and the first people of the city, and raised a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and cast them out of their coasts.