ACTS 13:45 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.”
When the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and began to contradict what Paul was saying and heaped abuse on him — jealousy (zēlos) reveals the apostles' competitive threat to established Jewish authority in the city. The transition from welcome to hostility illustrates the pattern of Jewish rejection that will recur throughout Acts: initial openness yields to institutional opposition when Christian claims appear to undermine Jewish prestige.
Church Fathers on Acts 13:45
But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and contradicted the things spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming. Acts 13:45 See malice wounded in wounding others: this made the Apostles more conspicuous — the contradiction which those offered. In the first instance then they of their own accord besought them to speak (and now they opposed them): contradicting, it says, and blaspheming. O recklessness!
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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