Paul's First Missionary Journey - In Pisidian Antioch; Acts 13:13 – 52 Part 14

Church History: When they became believers they did what they could to spread the knowledge of Christ and his gospel among their neighbors. The word of the Lord was published throughout all the region. When it was received with so much satisfaction in the chief city, it soon spread into all parts of the country. Those new converts were themselves ready to communicate to others that which they were so full of themselves. The Lord gave the word, and then great was the company of those that published it, (Psalms 68:11). Those that have become acquainted with Christ themselves will do what they can to bring others acquainted with him. Those in great and rich cities that have received the gospel should not think to engross it, as if, like learning and philosophy, it were only to be the entertainment of the more polite and elevated part of mankind, but should do what they can to get it published in the country among the ordinary sort of people, the poor and unlearned, who have souls to be saved as well as they.
Paul and Barnabas, having sown the seeds of a Christian church there, left, and went to do the like else-where. Now we are told how the unbelieving Jews expelled the apostles out of that country. They first turned their back upon them, and then sought to harm them. They excited the mob to persecute them along their way by insulting them as they went along the streets; excited the magistrates to persecute them by imprisoning and punishing them. When they could not resist the wisdom and spirit of which they spoke, they resorted to these brutish methods, the last refuge of an obstinate infidelity. Satan and his agents are most exasperated against the preachers of the gospel when they see them go on successfully, and therefore then will be sure to raise persecution against them. Thus it has been the common lot of the best men in the world to suffer ill for doing well, to be persecuted instead of being preferred for the good services they have done to mankind.
The apostles abandoned and rejected the unbelieving Jews. They shook off the dust of their feet against them. When they went out of the city they used this ceremony in the sight of those that sat in the gate; or, when they went out of the borders of their country, in the sight of those that were sent to see them leave.
When the disciples saw with what courage and cheerfulness Paul and Barnabas bore the indignities that were done to them, but went on with their work notwithstanding, they were inspirited to do likewise.7