Léctio Actuum Apostolórum (13,46-49)
In diebus illis: Paulus et Bárnabas dixérunt Iudaéis: “Vóbis oportébat primum loqui verbum Dei; sed quóniam repéllitis illud et indígnos vos iudicátis ætérnæ vitæ, ecce convértimur ad gentes. Sic enim præcépit nobis Dóminus: ‘Pósui te in lumen géntium, ut sis in salútem usque ad extrémum terræ.’” Audiéntes autem gentes gaudébant et glorificábant verbum Dómini, et credidérunt, quotquot erant præordináti ad vitam ætérnam; ferebátur autem verbum Dómini per univérsam regiónem.
In those days: Paul and Barnabas said to the Jews: To you it behoved us first to speak the word of God: but because you repel it, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life; behold we turn to the Gentiles. For so our Lord commanded us: I have put thee to be the light of the Gentiles; that thou mayest be salvation unto the utmost of the earth. And the Gentiles hearing it, were glad, and glorified the word of our Lord: and there believed as many as were preordinate to life everlasting. And the word of our Lord was spread throughout the whole country.
