TSK · Acts 14:1

Then the Jewish leaders said to one another,“Where is he going to go that we cannot find him? He is not going to go to the Jewish people dispersed among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, is he?

and immediately he began to proclaim Jesus in the synagogues, saying,“This man is the Son of God.”

When they arrived in Salamis, they began to proclaim the word of God in the Jewish synagogues.(Now they also had John as their assistant.)

Both Paul and Barnabas replied courageously,“It was necessary to speak the word of God to you first. Since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we are turning to the Gentiles.

But the Jews who refused to believe stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers.

Timothy Joins Paul and Silas He also came to Derbe and to Lystra. A disciple named Timothy was there, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer, but whose father was a Greek.

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.

So he was addressing the Jews and the God-fearing Gentiles in the synagogue, and in the marketplace every day those who happened to be there.

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.

This went on for two years, so that all who lived in the province of Asia, both Jews and Greeks, heard the word of the Lord.

testifying to both Jews and Greeks about repentance toward God and faith in our Lord Jesus.

The Power of the Gospel For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is God’s power for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

For Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks ask for wisdom,

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female– for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.