'Gentiles' in the Bible
You said through the Holy Spirit, by the mouth of our father David Your servant:Why did the Gentiles rageand the peoples plot futile things?
“For, in fact, in this city both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, assembled together against Your holy Servant Jesus, whom You anointed,
But the Lord said to him, “Go! For this man is My chosen instrument to take My name to Gentiles, kings, and the Israelites.
The circumcised believers who had come with Peter were astounded because the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out on the Gentiles also.
The apostles and the brothers who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles had welcomed God’s message also.
When they heard this they became silent. Then they glorified God, saying, “So God has granted repentance resulting in life even to the Gentiles!”
Then Paul and Barnabas boldly said: “It was necessary that God’s message be spoken to you first. But since you reject it and consider yourselves unworthy of eternal life, we now turn to the Gentiles!
For this is what the Lord has commanded us:I have made youa light for the Gentilesto bring salvationto the ends of the earth.”
When the Gentiles heard this, they rejoiced and glorified the message of the Lord, and all who had been appointed to eternal life believed.
But the Jews who refused to believe stirred up and poisoned the minds of the Gentiles against the brothers.
When an attempt was made by both the Gentiles and Jews, with their rulers, to assault and stone them,
After they arrived and gathered the church together, they reported everything God had done with them and that He had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles.
When they had been sent on their way by the church, they passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, explaining in detail the conversion of the Gentiles, and they created great joy among all the brothers.
After there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them: “Brothers, you are aware that in the early days God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles would hear the gospel message and believe.
Then the whole assembly fell silent and listened to Barnabas and Paul describing all the signs and wonders God had done through them among the Gentiles.
Simeon has reported how God first intervened to take from the Gentiles a people for His name.
so the rest of humanitymay seek the Lord—even all the Gentileswho are called by My name,declares the Lord who does these things,
Therefore, in my judgment, we should not cause difficulties for those among the Gentiles who turn to God,
They wrote this letter to be delivered by them: From the apostles and the elders, your brothers,To the brothers among the Gentiles in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia:Greetings.
But when they resisted and blasphemed, he shook his robe and told them, “Your blood is on your own heads! I am innocent. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.”
After greeting them, he related in detail what God did among the Gentiles through his ministry.
But they have been told about you that you teach all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to abandon Moses, by telling them not to circumcise their children or to walk in our customs.
With regard to the Gentiles who have believed, we have written a letter containing our decision that they should keep themselves from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from what is strangled, and from sexual immorality.”
“Then He said to me, ‘Go, because I will send you far away to the Gentiles.’”
I will rescue you from the people and from the Gentiles. I now send you to them
Instead, I preached to those in Damascus first, and to those in Jerusalem and in all the region of Judea, and to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works worthy of repentance.
that the Messiah must suffer, and that as the first to rise from the dead, He would proclaim light to our people and to the Gentiles.”
Therefore, let it be known to you that this saving work of God has been sent to the Gentiles; they will listen!”