Matthew 10:5-6
10:5 a Don’t go to the Gentiles: Jesus’ mission was limited to Jews at this stage (15:24 b). Through the Jews, God would reach the Gentiles (Isa 2:2-4 c; 42:6-7 d; 49:6 e; 60:3 f).• Jews regarded Samaritans as impure Jews (Luke 17:18 g) because of their intermarriage with Gentiles during and after the Assyrian and Babylonian exiles (2 Kgs 17:24-41 h). Tension was provoked in 128 BC when the Jewish leader John Hyrcanus destroyed the Samaritan temple on Mount Gerizim (Josephus, Antiquities 13.9.1).
10:6 i Being lost is the result of neglect by their shepherds (9:36 j; 15:24 k).
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