Acts 13:42

“And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, etc.] The time of worship there being over; or being offended at the apostle’s discourse concerning Jesus: the words will bear to be rendered, “when they were gone out of the synagogue of the Jews”; and the sense be, when Paul and Barnabas were come out from thence, Paul having finished his discourse: the word “Jews”, and the phrase, “out of the synagogue”, are left out in Beza’s ancient copy, and in the Alexandrian copy, and in the Vulgate Latin, and Syriac versions; and so may be interpreted either of the Jews, or of Paul and Barnabas; the Ethiopic version leaves out the whole clause: “the Gentiles besought that these words might be spoken…”

“And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles besought that these words might be preached to them the next sabbath--rather (according to what is beyond doubt the true reading), "Now, as they were going out [of the synagogue], they besought"--that is, not the Gentiles, whose case comes in afterwards, but the mixed congregation of Jews and proselytes, to whom the discourse had been addressed, entreated to have another hearing of such truths; those of them, that is, who had been impressed. "And after the breaking up of the synagogue, many of" both classes, Jews and religious; proselytes, followed Paul and Barnabas (observe, from this time forward, the inverted order of these…”

“And when the Jews ... - There is a great variety in the mss. on this verse, and in the ancient versions. Griesbach and Knapp read it, “And when they were gone out, they besought them that these words might be spoken, etc.” The Syriac reads it, “When they departed from them, they sought from them that these words might be spoken to them on another Sabbath.” The Arabic, “Some of the synagogue of the Jews asked of them that they would exhort the Gentiles with them, etc.” If these readings be correct, then the meaning is, that some of the Jews exhorted the apostles to proclaim these truths at some other time, particularly to the Gentiles. The mss. greatly vary in regard to the passage, and it…”

“When the Jews were going out - Probably many of them, not bearing to hear him, went out before he had done. The Sabbath between - So the Jews call to this day the Sabbath between the first day of the month Tisri (on which the civil year begins) and the tenth of the same month, which is the solemn day of expiation. Acts 13:43”

“13:42-43 The message stirred up interest among the people, and many of them were converted.”

“the Gentiles: Act 10:33, Act 28:28; Eze 3:6; Mat 11:21, Mat 19:30 the next sabbath: Gr. in the week between, or, in the sabbath between, Act 13:44 Acts 13:43”