Matthew 10:5-7

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The Mission of the Twelve

⁵These twelve Jesus sent out, charging them, “Go nowhere among the Gentiles, and enter no town of the Samaritans,^[a] ⁶but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. ⁷And preach as you go, saying, ‘The kingdom of heaven is at hand.’

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10.5 The gospel, the Messianic salvation, had first to be preached and offered to the chosen people, Israel. Later it would be offered to the Gentiles.

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