ACTS 13:41 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you.”
'Look, you scoffers, wonder and perish, for I am going to do something in your days that you would never believe, even if someone told you' — Habakkuk 1:5 (LXX) is applied as an eschatological warning, threatening those who reject the proclaimed salvation. The quotation emphasizes God's astonishing work in raising Jesus—a deed so extraordinary that skeptics cannot fathom it even in explanation.
Church Fathers on Acts 13:41
I work a work which you shall in no wise believe, though one declare it unto you. Acts 13:41 Marvel not that it seems incredible: this very thing was foretold from the first — (that it would not be believed). Behold, you despisers, as regards those who disbelieve in the Resurrection. This too might with reason be said to us: Behold you despisers. For the Church indeed is in very evil case, although you think her affairs to be in peace. For the mischief of it is, that while…
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