Reading for May 12th

Read Acts 13.44-14.7
In verses 44-45: On jealousy, see Acts 5.17; 7.9.
Those who were contradicting Paul were probably also accusing him of blaspheming on the grounds of the scriptural arguments.
In verses 46-47: Their boldness is again inspired speech (4.13, 31; 9.27-28).
Paul uses the promise from Isa 49.6 (see 1.6-8) as a prophetic reproof and repeatedly declares his turning to the Gentiles (18.6; 28.28), but he never stops witnessing to the Jews.
In verse: 49: on the word of the Lord, see 12.24; 13.44, 46.
In verse 50: Persecution again causes the mission to move ahead (8.1).
In verse 51: In Lk 10.11, Jesus warned his disciples about shaking the dust off their feet.
In 14.1: The mission in Iconium again begins in the synagogue (13.14).
In verses 4-5: In this passage (see also v. 14), Paul and Barnabas are called the apostles, a title otherwise reserved in Acts for "the twelve" (1.26).
They are clearly Jewish, but are contrasted with the Jews, who must be those who hold strict "Jewish" or "Judean" interpretation of the faith of Israel (15.1) as they divide the residents, apparently including both Gentiles and Jews, against Paul and Barnabas.
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