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Matthew 10:5
New Catholic Bible
Matthew 10:5
New Catholic Bible
5 These twelve Jesus sent forth after giving them the following instructions: “Do not travel[a] to the territory of the Gentiles, and enter no Samaritan town.
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- Matthew 10:5 Do not travel: the Good News about the kingdom was to be proclaimed first to Jews alone. After his Death and Resurrection, Jesus commanded the disciples to take the message to all nations (Mt 28:19; see Mt 21:43). Samaritans: a race of mixed blood resulting from the intermarriage of Israelites left behind when the people of the northern kingdom were exiled and Gentiles were brought into the land by the Assyrians (2 Ki 17:24). In the time of Jesus, Jews and Samaritans were bitterly opposed to one another (see Jn 4:9).
