Acts 13:46 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, &c.— With great freedom of speech said, &c. The words, Judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, plainly shew that persons are said to be self-condemned, who furnish out matter of condemnation from their own words, though they do not actually pass sentence on themselves; for nothing was further from the thoughts of these Jews, than declaring themselves unworthy of eternal life for not believing the gospel. They rather expected that life by rejecting it. See on Acts 13:48. When the apostles say, Behold, we turn to the Gentiles, their meaning is not, that they intended no more to make an offer to the Jews; for we find they continued to address them first, wherever they came; but they openly declared, that while they continued at Antioch, they would lose no more time in fruitless attempts on their ungrateful countrymen, but would employ themselves in doing what they could for the conversion of the Gentiles.