LESSON
60
STOPPED PREACHING TO JEWS-DEDICATED
TO PREACHING TO GENTILES
Acts 13:44-52 New Living Translation (NLT)
44 The following week almost the entire city turned out to hear them
preach the word of the Lord. 45 But when some of the Jews saw the crowds,
they were jealous; so they slandered Paul and argued against whatever he said. 46 Then Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly and
declared, “It was necessary that we first preach the word of God to you Jews.
But since you have rejected it and judged yourselves unworthy of eternal life,
we will offer it to the Gentiles.47 For the Lord gave us this command when he said,
‘I have made you a light to the Gentiles, to bring
salvation to the farthest corners of the earth.’” 48 When the Gentiles heard this, they were very glad and thanked the
Lord for his message; and all who were chosen for eternal life became believers. 49 So the Lord’s message spread throughout that region. 50 Then the Jews stirred up the
influential religious women and the leaders of the city, and they incited a mob
against Paul and Barnabas and ran them out of town. 51 So they shook the dust from their feet as a
sign of rejection and went to the town of Iconium. 52 And the believers[b] were filled with joy and with the
Holy Spirit.
