“Preached Among the Jews”
The gospel is preached according to a divine timetable. During the lifetime of Jesus, the message of salvation went on a preferential basis first to the members of the twelve tribes; the Savior and his apostolic witnesses preached the gospel only to those of the house of Israel. “I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel,” Jesus taught the Syrophenician woman (Matthew 15:24; cf. Matthew 10:5-6). Some years after the Resurrection, a visionary directive was given to the chief Apostle, Peter, that the time had now arrived for the gospel to be delivered to the Gentiles, those outside the house of Israel (Acts 10).
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