Acts 13:42-52 And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles sought that these words might be preached to them the next sabbath.… God has not appointed His Son to save a few dozen people who go to a particular meeting. house. He has set Him to be a light to the nations, and He means He shall be so. This encourages us to labour among all classes. Jesus is a fit light for the upper ten thousand, and some of them shall rejoice in that light: He is equally set to be a light to the teeming millions, and they shall rejoice in Him, too. What God has appointed must be carried out. Jesus is yet to be a light to outcast people — to the persons of whom we have never thought favourably, the classes whom even philanthropy has felt ready to abandon. This is God's set purpose concerning His Son Jesus, and His omnipotence will carry it out. (C. H. Spurgeon.) Parallel Verses KJV: And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles besought that these words might be preached to them the next sabbath. |
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