perish, for I perform a work in your days, a work which you shall by no means believe even if one declares it to you. 7 [13:42]And when they had gone out, [the people] requested that these words might be spoken to them on the next sabbath. [13:43]And the congregation being dismissed, many of the Jews and pious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who gave them additional instructions, and persuaded them to continue in the grace of God. [13:44]And on the following sabbath almost all the city came together to hear the word of the Lord. [13:45]And the Jews seeing the multitudes were filled with envy, and contradicted the things said by Paul, disputing and blaspheming. [13:46]And both Paul and Barnabas speaking boldly said, It was necessary that the word of God should first be spoken to you; but since you cast it away, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the gentiles. [13:47]For thus has the Lord commanded us; I have set you for a light of nations, that you should be a salvation even to the end of the earth. [13:48] And the gentiles hearing this rejoiced and glorified the word of the Lord, and as many as were appointed to eternal life believed; [13:49]and the word of the Lord was spread through all the country. [13:50]But the Jews excited the pious and honorable women, and the first men of the city, and raised a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and cast them out from their limits. [13:51]And shaking off the dust of their feet against them, they went to Iconium; [13:52] and the disciples were filled with joy and the Holy Spirit. 8 [14:1]And at Iconium they went together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spoke that a great multitude of the Jews and Greeks believed. [14:2]But the unbelieving Jews excited the minds of the gentiles against the brothers, and made them ill-disposed. [14:3]Then they spent a long time in speaking boldly for the Lord, who testified to the word of his grace by granting miracles and prodigies to be performed by their hands. [14:4]And the multitude of the city were divided; some were with the Jews, and some with the apostles. [14:5]And when a design was formed by the gentiles and Jews with their rulers to treat them injuriously, and stone them, [14:6]knowing it, they fled to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra and Derbe, and the surrounding country, [14:7]and preached the good news there.