Acts 14:2
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New International Version (©2011)
But the Jews who refused to believe stirred up the other Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Some of the Jews, however, spurned God's message and poisoned the minds of the Gentiles against Paul and Barnabas.

English Standard Version (©2001)
But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
But the Jews who disbelieved stirred up the minds of the Gentiles and embittered them against the brethren.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles, and made their minds evil affected against the brethren.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
But the Jews who refused to believe stirred up and poisoned the minds of the Gentiles against the brothers.

International Standard Version (©2012)
But the Jews who refused to believe stirred up the gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers.

NET Bible (©2006)
But the Jews who refused to believe stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
But the Jews who were unconvinced stirred up the Gentiles to harm the brethren.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
But the Jews who refused to believe stirred up some people who were not Jewish and poisoned their minds against the believers.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles, and made their minds embittered against the brethren.

American King James Version
But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles, and made their minds evil affected against the brothers.

American Standard Version
But the Jews that were disobedient stirred up the souls of the Gentiles, and made them evil affected against the brethren.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But the unbelieving Jews stirred up and incensed the minds of the Gentiles against the brethren.

Darby Bible Translation
But the Jews who did not believe stirred up the minds of those of the nations and made them evil-affected against the brethren.

English Revised Version
But the Jews that were disobedient stirred up the souls of the Gentiles, and made them evil affected against the brethren.

Webster's Bible Translation
But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles, and made their minds evil-affected against the brethren.

Weymouth New Testament
But the Jews who had refused obedience stirred up the Gentiles and embittered their minds against the brethren.

World English Bible
But the disbelieving Jews stirred up and embittered the souls of the Gentiles against the brothers.

Young's Literal Translation
and the unbelieving Jews did stir up and made evil the souls of the nations against the brethren;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

14:1-7 The apostles spake so plainly, with such evidence and proof of the Spirit, and with such power; so warmly, and with such concern for the souls of men; that those who heard them could not but say, God was with them of a truth. Yet the success was not to be reckoned to the manner of their preaching, but to the Spirit of God who used that means. Perseverance in doing good, amidst dangers and hardships, is a blessed evidence of grace. Wherever God's servants are driven, they should seek to declare the truth. When they went on in Christ's name and strength, he failed not to give testimony to the word of his grace. He has assured us it is the word of God, and that we may venture our souls upon it. The Gentiles and Jews were at enmity with one another, yet united against Christians. If the church's enemies join to destroy it, shall not its friends unite for its preservation? God has a shelter for his people in a storm; he is, and will be their Hiding-place. In times of persecution, believers may see cause to quit a spot, though they do not quit their Master's work.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 2. - The Jews that were disobedient for the unbelieving Jews, A.V. and T.R.; stirred up the souls of the Gentiles, and made them, etc., for stirred up the Gentiles, and made their minds, etc., A.V. The Jews that were disobedient. The R.T. (ἀπειθήσαντες) may equally and even better be rendered, the Jews that were unbelieving (comp. John 3:36, where πιστεύων and ἀπειθῶν αρε opposed to each other, and Romans 11:30-32, where the idea of belief is far more appropriate than that of obedience). Stirred up the souls, etc. St. Paul speaks with much warmth of the constant opposition of the Jews, "forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved" (1 Thessalonians 2:14-16).

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles,.... That part of the Jews, which continued in unbelief, and rejected the doctrine of the apostles, concerning Jesus of Nazareth being the Messiah; these stirred up the Gentiles, who had no knowledge of, nor faith in this matter:

and made their minds evil affected against the brethren; either in general against all those that embraced the Gospel of Christ; who being of the same faith and family, having the same God to be their Father, and equally related to, and interested in Christ Jesus, are called brethren; or in particular against the Apostles Paul and Barnabas, by representing them as seditious persons, and of bad designs.

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Paul and Barnabas at Iconium
1And it came to pass in Iconium, that they went both together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spoke, that a great multitude both of the Jews and also of the Greeks believed. 2But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles, and made their minds evil affected against the brothers. 3Long time therefore stayed they speaking boldly in the Lord, which gave testimony to the word of his grace, and granted signs and wonders to be done by their hands. …

John 3:36 Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on them.
Acts 1:15 In those days Peter stood up among the believers (a group numbering about a hundred and twenty)
Acts 13:45 When the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy. They began to contradict what Paul was saying and heaped abuse on him.
Acts 13:50 But the Jewish leaders incited the God-fearing women of high standing and the leading men of the city. They stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them from their region.
Acts 14:4 The people of the city were divided; some sided with the Jews, others with the apostles.
Acts 14:5 There was a plot afoot among both Gentiles and Jews, together with their leaders, to mistreat them and stone them.
Acts 14:19 Then some Jews came from Antioch and Iconium and won the crowd over. They stoned Paul and dragged him outside the city, thinking he was dead.
1 Thessalonians 2:14 For you, brothers and sisters, became imitators of God's churches in Judea, which are in Christ Jesus: You suffered from your own people the same things those churches suffered from the Jews
1 Thessalonians 2:16 in their effort to keep us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved. In this way they always heap up their sins to the limit. The wrath of God has come upon them at last.