Matthew 10:5

Jesus first sends the twelve only to Israel, not to Gentiles or Samaritans. This reflects God's ordered plan to reach Israel first.

Cross-references · 23

• John 4:9The Samaritan woman therefore said to him, “How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)
• Acts 22:21–23“He said to me, ‘Depart, for I will send you out far from here to the Gentiles.’”
• 2 Kgs 17:24–41The king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, from Cuthah, from Avva, and from Hamath and Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel; and they possessed Samaria, and lived in its cities.
• John 4:22–24You worship that which you don’t know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews.
• 1 Th 2:16forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved; to fill up their sins always. But wrath has come on them to the uttermost.
• Rom 15:8–9Now I say that Christ has been made a servant of the circumcision for the truth of God, that he might confirm the promises given to the fathers,
• Luke 17:16He fell on his face at Jesus’ feet, giving him thanks; and he was a Samaritan.
• Luke 9:2He sent them out to preach God’s Kingdom and to heal the sick.
• Acts 10:45They of the circumcision who believed were amazed, as many as came with Peter, because the gift of the Holy Spirit was also poured out on the Gentiles.
• Acts 8:5–25Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and proclaimed to them the Christ.
• John 7:35The Jews therefore said among themselves, “Where will this man go that we won’t find him? Will he go to the Dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?
• John 20:21Jesus therefore said to them again, “Peace be to you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you.”
• Luke 10:33But a certain Samaritan, as he traveled, came where he was. When he saw him, he was moved with compassion,
• John 4:5So he came to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son, Joseph.
• John 4:39–40From that city many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman, who testified, “He told me everything that I did.”
• Luke 9:52–54and sent messengers before his face. They went, and entered into a village of the Samaritans, so as to prepare for him.
• Matt 4:15“The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, toward the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles,
• Acts 1:8But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”
• Acts 8:1Saul was consenting to his death. A great persecution arose against the assembly which was in Jerusalem in that day. They were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except for the apostles.
• John 4:20Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.”
• Matt 22:3and sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the marriage feast, but they would not come.
• John 8:48Then the Jews answered him, “Don’t we say well that you are a Samaritan, and have a demon?”
• Luke 10:1Now after these things, the Lord also appointed seventy others, and sent them two by two ahead of him into every city and place, where he was about to come.

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