Acts 14:2 - Exposition

The Jews that were disobedient for the unbelieving Jews, A.V. and T.R.; stirred up the souls of the Gentiles, and made them, etc., for stirred up the Gentiles, and made their minds, etc., A.V. The Jews that were disobedient . The R.T. ( ἀπειθήσαντες ) may equally and even better be rendered, the Jews that were unbelieving (comp. John 3:36 , where πιστεύων and ἀπειθῶν are opposed to each other, and Romans 11:30-32 , where the idea of belief is far more appropriate than that of obedience ) . Stirred up the souls , etc. St. Paul speaks with much warmth of the constant opposition of the Jews, "forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved" ( 1 Thessalonians 2:14-16 ).