Acts 13:42

Further preaching both to Jews and Gentiles. Jealousy of the Jews, and expulsion of the Apostles from Antioch

42. And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles besought, &c. The oldest MSS. give, "And as they were going out of the synagogue they besought, &c." The desire was expressed by the congregation both of Jews and proselytes as they left the synagogue. We do not read of the Gentiles joining the throng of listeners until the next Sabbath (Acts 13:44).

that these words(tidings)] The whole declaration of the Christian faith. It is not the ordinary Greek term for "word." Cp. Acts 10:37.

the next sabbath The Greek words differ from those below in Acts 13:44, and have been rendered by some "during the intervening week." As is pointed out in the Excursus on Acts 13:15, the Jewish congregations had a portion of the Law read in the synagogues not only on the Sabbath, but on the Monday and on the Thursday mornings, that they might not be for three days without hearing the Scripture. The peculiar expression in this verse may apply to the meetings in the synagogue on those days, and that then the people desired to hear once more the message which St Paul had just preached to them. As a different expression is used so immediately, for "on the next Sabbath," it is but just to suppose that the historian had some reason for the variation of his language in the two verses.