Acts 13:42
And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles besought that these words might be preached to them the next sabbath. And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles besought that these words might be preached to them the next sabbath.
This took place on the first missionary journey, when Paul and Barnabas were in the synagogue at Antioch in Pisidia on the Sabbath day. What Paul preached there was that Jesus is the Saviour, the promised Messiah of prophecy, of the seed of David. When the Jews went out of the synagogue, the Gentiles who had heard and lingered besought that these same words might be preached to them the next Sabbath.
Their request shows Gentiles seeking access to the apostles' teaching and the message of salvation, revealing the strong interest the message had stirred and the welcome they gave to the good news. Many who heard later followed Paul and Barnabas, who encouraged the believers and converts to stand fast in faith and continue in the grace of God. The request led to great interest among both Jews and Gentiles, so that the next Sabbath a great crowd, even the whole city, came together to hear the apostles preach Jesus as the promised Messiah.
When the Jewish priests and rulers saw great numbers of Gentiles mingling with Jews and sharing religious privileges on an equality, they were moved by envy and jealousy and clung to the idea that the blessing of God was reserved exclusively for Jews. Though they had listened with intense interest one Sabbath, they were excited to frenzy and rage the next Sabbath on learning that the Messiah would be a light to the Gentiles as well as the glory of Israel. They contradicted with blasphemy, distorting the apostles' words in their minds, unfitted by bigotry, prejudice, blindness of mind and hardness of heart to weigh the evidence, and reviling them with insulting language.
The Gentiles rejoiced exceedingly that Christ recognized them as children of God, and their glad reception made clear the apostles' duty to turn without hesitation to the Gentiles. Paul, the apostle to the Gentiles, preaching on the Sabbath to both Jews and Gentiles after Christ's ascension, death and resurrection proves that neither Christ nor His followers broke the Sabbath law and that its sacred claims were remembered and honored, showing the Sabbath continued to be observed.