Acts 13:45. When the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy. It is the Jews only, not the proselytes, who were enraged at the sight of the crowds who flocked to hear the stranger missionaries. The old exclusive pride of the race of Abraham was stirred up at the thought of these masses of idolaters sharing with the chosen people in all the promised glories of Messiah's kingdom.

It was this feeling which prompted the bitter opposition we hear of in the next clause.

Spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming. Denying the application of the various Messianic prophecies quoted by the apostles, and most probably accusing and denying that Holy One whose Cross and Resurrection formed the central point of the stranger missionaries' preaching.

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