Acts 13:48-50
13:48 When the Gentiles heard this, they began to rejoice
and praise
the word of the Lord, and all who had been appointed for eternal life
believed.
13:49 So the word of the Lord was spreading
through the entire region.
13:50 But the Jews incited
the God-fearing women of high social standing and the prominent men of the city, stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and threw them out
of their region.
Acts 14:4
14:4 But the population
of the city was divided; some
sided with the Jews, and some with the apostles.
Acts 17:4-5
17:4 Some of them were persuaded
and joined Paul and Silas, along with a large group
of God-fearing Greeks
and quite a few
prominent women.
17:5 But the Jews became jealous,
and gathering together some worthless men from the rabble in the marketplace,
they formed a mob
and set the city in an uproar.
They attacked Jason’s house,
trying to find Paul and Silas
to bring them out to the assembly.
Acts 18:6-8
18:6 When they opposed him
and reviled him,
he protested by shaking out his clothes
and said to them, “Your blood
be on your own heads! I am guiltless!
From now on I will go to the Gentiles!”
18:7 Then Paul
left
the synagogue
and went to the house of a person named Titius Justus, a Gentile who worshiped God,
whose house was next door to the synagogue.
18:8 Crispus, the president of the synagogue,
believed in the Lord together with his entire household, and many of the Corinthians who heard about it
believed and were baptized.
Acts 19:8-9
Paul Continues to Minister at Ephesus
19:8 So Paul entered the synagogue and spoke out fearlessly for three months, addressing and convincing them about the kingdom of God.
19:9 But when some were stubborn and refused to believe, reviling the Way before the congregation, he left them and took the disciples with him, addressing them every day in the lecture hall of Tyrannus.
Romans 3:3
3:3 What then? If some did not believe, does their unbelief nullify the faithfulness of God?
Romans 11:4-6
11:4 But what was the divine response
to him? “
I have kept for myself
seven thousand people who have not bent the knee to Baal.”
11:5 So in the same way at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace.
11:6 And if it is by grace, it is no longer by works, otherwise grace would no longer be grace.