41Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish;
Because I work a work in your days,
A work which ye will not believe,
Though one should fully declare it to you.
42And as they were going out, they besought that these words might be spoken to them on the next sabbath. 43And when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and of the proselyte worshipers followed Paul and Barnabas; who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.
44And on the next sabbath day, almost the whole city came together to hear the word of God. 45But the Jews, seeing the multitudes, were filled with indignation, and spoke against the things said by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.
46Then Paul and Barnabas spoke boldly, and said: It was necessary that the word of God should first be spoken to you; but since ye thrust it from you, and judge yourselves not worthy of the eternal life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles. 47For so has the Lord commanded us:
I have set thee for a light of the Gentiles,
That thou shouldst be for salvation to the end of the earth.
48And the Gentiles hearing it rejoiced, and glorified the word of the Lord; and as many as were appointed unto eternal life believed. 49And the word of the Lord was spread abroad throughout all the region.