Waxed bold; being nothing aftrighted with the reproaches and blasphemies they met with, which but increased their zeal, as a little water does the fire in the smith's forge. It was necessary; there was a necessity that the Word of God should be first preached to the Jews:
1. Because Christ was promised to the children and heirs of their ancestors.
2. Because Christ did command it to be thus preached, Matthew 10:5,6 Lu 24:47 Acts 1:8.
3. Christ himself thus preached it, declaring that he was not sent (comparatively) but to the lost sheep of the house of lsrael, Matthew 15:24. And judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life; by this their contradicting and blaspheming, they show as evidently that they are thus unworthy of everlasting life, as if a judge had determined so, or passed such a sentence upon his tribunal, or judgment seat.