Acts 13:32-52 ▼

32 And we preach to you the promise made to our fathers;

33 for this hath God fulfilled to their children, even to us, in raising up Jesus: as it is also written in the second Psalm, ?Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.?

34 But that he raised him from the dead, no more in future to return to corruption, he hath thus spoken, ?I will give you the holy things of David, which are sure.?

35 Wherefore also he saith in another place, ?Thou wilt not permit thy Holy One to see corruption.?

36 For David indeed, after having served his own generation by the will of God, fell asleep, and was placed with his fathers, and saw corruption.

37 But he, whom God raised up, saw no corruption.

38 Be it therefore known unto you, men and brethren, that through this man remission of sin is proclaimed to you:

39 and by this man shall every one who believeth be justified from all things, from which it was not possible that he should be justified by the law of Moses.

40 Take heed then, that this come not upon you, which is spoken by the prophets;

41 ?Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I do a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though one declare it unto you.?

42 But when the Jews were going out of the synagogue, the Gentiles entreated that these words might be spoken to them the following sabbath.

43 And when the synagogue was dismissed, many of the Jews and of the devout proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas: who, exhorting them, persuaded them to abide stedfast in the grace of God.

44 And on the next sabbath almost all the city thronged together to hear the word of God.

45 But the Jews seeing the multitude, were filled with envy, and opposed the things spoken by Paul, contradicting and reviling.

46 Then Paul and Barnabas speaking with undaunted boldness, said, It was necessary that the word of God should be first spoken unto you: but since ye have thrust it from you, and judged yourselves not worthy of eternal life, lo! we turn to the Gentiles.

47 For so hath the Lord enjoined us, ?I have set thee for a light of the Gentiles, that thou mightest be for salvation unto the extremity of the earth.?

48 Now when the Gentiles heard this, they rejoiced, and glorified the word of the Lord: and they believed, even as many as were ordained to life eternal.

49 So the word of the Lord was diffused through the whole region.

50 Then the Jews stirred up the devout women, and those who were respectable, and the principal persons of the city, and raised up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and cast them out of their borders.

51 But they, shaking off the dust of their feet against them, came to Iconium.

52 And the disciples were filled with joy, and with the Holy Ghost.