1Th 2:14-16 | ESV | STEP | For you , brothers , became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea . For you suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they did from the Jews ,

‏ 1 Thessalonians 2:14-16

14 For you, brothers, ^abecame imitators of ^bthe churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea. For ^cyou suffered the same things from your own countrymen ^das they did from the Jews, ^{▼▼The Greek word Ioudaioi can refer to Jewish religious leaders and others under their influence, who opposed the Christian faith in that time} 15 ^fwho killed both the Lord Jesus and ^gthe prophets, and drove us out, and displease God and ^hoppose all mankind 16 ⁱby hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles that they might be saved—so as always ^jto fill up the measure of their sins. But ^kwrath has come upon them at last! ^{▼▼Or completely, or forever}