And the next sabbath came almost the whole city together Idolaters as well as proselytes; to hear the word of God In consequence, it seems, of the report which the Gentiles had spread abroad of what had been delivered before, whereby an earnest desire had been awakened in many, of attending that repetition of their extraordinary message which the apostles had engaged themselves to make. But when the Jews Of the more bigoted sort; saw the multitude And considered what an encouragement it was to Paul to go on in his work; they were filled with envy Greek, ζηλου, with zeal, namely, for the honour of their law and nation, which they foolishly imagined to be disgraced and injured by this new sect; and with indignation and envy at the regard which the inhabitants of Antioch showed to Paul's doctrine, beyond what they had ever done to the Jewish religion; and spake against Opposed; those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming
They contradicted Paul's doctrine concerning the sufferings and death of the Messiah, and reviled him, or rather Jesus, calling him an impostor, because he had not been able, they said, to deliver himself from death, though he pretended to be the Christ.