Acts 13:50 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Devout and honourable women,— As Antioch in Pisidia was a Gentile city, the Jews had not the civil power in their hands; but they were so incensed at the success of the two apostles, and particularly at the reception of the idolatrous Gentiles without requiring them first to become proselytes of righteousness, that they exasperated some women, who were devout Gentiles, and persons of some quality and distinction; and by their means drew their husbands, or such other leading men of the city as they could influence, into their quarrel. If we suppose that these devout women were newly proselyted to Judaism, and full of an opinion of the sanctity and privileges of the people to whom they now belonged, nothing can be more natural than to suppose that they would instigate their husbands and other relations to the warmest resentment against Paul and Barnabas, whom they would look upon as levellers and apostates.