24But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not: …
Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers:
My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace. …
Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.
And they were scattered, because there is no shepherd: and they became meat to all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 21-28)We have here that famous story of Christ’s casting the devil out of the woman of Canaan’s daughter ; it has something in it singular and very surprising, and which looks favourably upon the poor Gentiles, and is an earnest of the mercy which Christ had in store for them. Here is a gleam of that light which was to lighten the Gentiles , Luke 2:32. Christ came to his own, and his own received him no…
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