You will leave your name to my chosen ones as a curse. The Sovereign Lord Jehovah will put you to death, but to his servants he will give another name.

For this reason I tell you, The kingdom of God will be taken away from you. It will be given to a nation producing fruit.

Go then, to the main roads, and invite all those whom you see to come to the feast.'

The servant returned and conveyed this to his master. The master was furious. He commanded his servant to hurry into the streets and alleys of the town, and bring back the poor, the crippled, the blind, and the lame.

Paul and Barnabas became very bold, and said: It was necessary that the Word of God should first be spoken to you. But seeing you reject it you judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life! Therefore we turn to the people of the nations.

You need to know that God has sent his salvation to people who are not Jews. They will listen.

They

Indeed, we have had good news presented to us. They also had it. But the word that was heard did not benefit them because they were not united in faith by what was heard.

We see that they could not enter in on account of a lack of faith (unbelief) (disobedience).

The Scripture revealed ahead of time, that God justified the people of the nations by faith. He preached the good news beforehand to Abraham. He said: In you will all the nations be blessed.

Entered

Who did God swear would never enter his rest? He was talking about those who did not obey him.

General references

He did not do many mighty works there because of their lack of faith.