45. When the Jews there saw all these people, they became very jealous. Shouting insults, they argued against everything Paul said.
46. But Paul and Barnabas spoke very boldly. They said, “We had to tell God’s message to you Jews first, but you refuse to listen. You have made it clear that you are not worthy of having eternal life. So we will now go to those who are not Jews.
47. This is what the Lord told us to do: ‘I have made you a light for the other nations, to show people all over the world the way to be saved.’” Isaiah 49:6
48. When the non-Jewish people heard Paul say this, they were happy. They gave honor to the message of the Lord, and many of them believed it. These were the ones chosen to have eternal life.
49. And so the message of the Lord was being told throughout the whole country.
50. But the Jews there caused some of the important religious women and the leaders of the city to be angry and turn against Paul and Barnabas and throw them out of town.
51. So Paul and Barnabas shook the dust off their feet. Then they went to the city of Iconium.
52. But the Lord’s followers in Antioch were happy and filled with the Holy Spirit.