Acts 13:44-50

⁴⁴The following Sabbath almost the whole town turned out to hear the word of God.

⁴⁵However, when the Jews saw the crowds, they became extremely jealous, contradicting what Paul was saying and cursing him.

⁴⁶So Paul and Barnabas spoke out strongly, saying “We had to speak the word of God to you first. But now that you're rejecting it—you're deciding that you're not worthy of eternal life—well now we're turning to the foreigners.

⁴⁷That's what the Lord has told us to do: ‘I've made you a light to the foreigners, and through you salvation will go to the ends of the earth.’”

⁴⁸When the foreigners heard this they were overjoyed, praising the Lord's word, and all those chosen for eternal life trusted in God.

⁴⁹So God's word was spread throughout the region.

⁵⁰But the Jews incited the prominent religious women and leaders of the city to persecute Paul and Barnabas, and had them expelled from their territory.