Matthew 10:5
These twelve Jesus sent out, instructing them, “Do not go anywhere among the Gentiles, and do not enter any town of the Samaritans,
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4Simon the Cananite, and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him.
6but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
Cross References
Matthew 4:15“Land of Zebulun and land of Naphtali, way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles,
Luke 9:2and he sent them to proclaim the kingdom of God and to heal the sick.
Luke 10:1After this, the Lord appointed seventy others and sent them on ahead, two by two, to every town and place where he himself was about to go.
Luke 17:16He then fell on his face at Jesus' feet, giving him thanks. (Now he was a Samaritan.)
John 4:9So the Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that yoʋ, a Jew, ask for water to drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)
John 4:22You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, because salvation is from the Jews.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 10:2-5
The Apostles Sent Forth. 1 And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease. 2 Now the names of the twelve apostles are these; The first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother; 3 Philip, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the publican; James the son of Alpheus, and Lebbeus, whose surname was Thaddeus; 4 Simon the Canaanite,… Read the whole commentary →