Today's Favorite Verse: Acts 13:5, 14, 42, 46

Today's Favorite Verse: Acts 13:5, 14, 42, 46

"And when they were at Salamis, they preached the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews: and they had also John to their minister.

But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and sat down.

And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles besought that these words might be preached to them the next sabbath.

Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles."

This reminds me of.

"So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen."

(Matthew 20:16)

Barnabas and Saul first went to preach the gospel in the synagogues to the Jews. For they are the first. When the Jews rejected them they preached to the Gentiles, who are last. This is a pattern Paul continues throughout his ministry. The gentiles were the first to receive the gospel when the church was restored. In time the gospel will be taken again to the Jews. They will be the last when Christ returns.

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