Why did Jesus ever say he was sent ONLY unto the Israelites ?

Question

Jesus was the last Israelite Prophet. If his message was truly for all the world then he would NEVER have said (even once) that he came only for one group of people…….. unless he really was sent only to the Israelites.

If he was sent to all the world then he would have said he had come for the whole world from the moment he started preaching.

(Matt 10:5-6)--- Jesus sent out these 12 after giving them instructions: "Don't take the road leading to other nations, and don't enter any Samaritan town. Instead, go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

(Matthew 15:24) He (Jesus) replied, "I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel."

(Matt 18:11) "For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost."


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Answer 1

Just because he was really send to the lost sheep of house of Israel..This is paul who actually extended his teaching to gentiles

Answer 2

Israel was to be the proud example to the rest of the world, but things got ugly, and out of hand! They were found faithless and just absurdly petty with the law. Cleansing the outside of the cup etc. Ritual things that were meant to make them healthy, but they focused on that to a fault, rather than pay attention to the more important spiritual growth, which Jesus was sent to introduce.

The parable said that the people that were invited to the "wedding feast" didn't come, so he went into the hiways and streets and asked anybody to come. The capacity wasn't full yet, so they had to beg the beggers. The ones that refused the first invite, weren't asked again. It was known beforehand, that would happen.

There is a complex interplay in the works. It was His intent to first go to them, then He went to "sheep of other folds."
If you really want to complicate matters, throw in reincarnations! :)

Answer 3

out of all the people in the world, God approached Abram of Ur of the Chaldees.
because God knew that he would do right and teach his children what is right.

from Abram sprang the Jewish people. God chose them to take the message of covenant with Him to all the world.

when they went astray, God sent Jesus to get them back on track.
so Jesus said, go first to the house of Israel with the message I'm sent to bring.

when Jesus said, the famous well known words recorded in John 3:16.. salvation is to all the world. He was speaking to a priest of the Jewish synagogue at the time.

He could not take His message to the gentiles without first giving it to the Jewish people.
and the apostle Paul in his epistles echoes this when he says, "first to the Jews, then to the gentiles."

Jesus spoke to a samaritan woman at the well. marveled at the faith of a roman soldier. and ministered to the child of the syrophenecian woman.
He never held anything back from the gentiles. and God had to show Peter by means of a vision that God wants the gentiles to be saved too.

Answer 4

He was sent to The Jews, but his message and the salvation was not only for the Jews but also for the Gentiles. But he was sent to show the chosen nation the way back to God was through the new covenant that he was providing just as God had said, God used Paul to witness and preach to the gentiles. Check out these verses. I hope it helps. Peace
Isaiah 42:6
Isaiah 49:6
Jeremiah 31:31

Answer 5

In the first century the people who were born into the religion of Judaism assumed that they had the true religion. Not only were they told by their religious leaders and relatives that they had it, but they learned from Bible history that their forefathers had worshiped God in an acceptable manner. Those people, with few exceptions, overlooked the fact that the true religion of their forefathers had become corrupted in the course of time. That meant that the religion of Judaism was not acceptable to God. It was not the same undefiled worship practiced by Moses, Samuel and David.
Christ and his disciples preached to these people with the purpose of changing them, of turning them back to the true, uncorrupted worship of Jehovah God. They had a difficult task because they were talking to people who were just as adverse to changing religions as are many people today. Today we might wonder why Christ did not go to the pagans instead of preaching to those who were members of Judaism and worshipers of the true God. Jesus explained this when he said that he was sent forth “to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”—Matt. 15:24.

Answer 6

The Jews have been the chosen human beings of God and God`s choose grew to become into that by using this human beings the completed worldwide would improve into believers and so we see the confirmation of this whilst Christ chosen to be born into this united states of america, regrettably the Israelites or Jews rejected the Messiah and by ability of doing so their own salvation which grew to become into then open to the pagan countries.

Answer 7

I keep wondering why this question come up. It's rather simple to answer it with John 3:16. So read John 3:16 and then do a study on the "Time of the Gentiles".

Answer 8

Because at that particular part of God's plan of redemption THAT WAS THE TRUTH.

God sent Jesus to save Israel - His chosen people. It chnaged only later when they rejected HIm as their Savior. Thank GOD for His omniscience because I am not a son of Abraham!

Answer 9

I agree, he also didn't make a new religion. He taught Judaism. Not once did he say if you follow me you will be called Christians. Only Paul said that. The word "Christian" is not in any of the Gospels

Answer 10

Salvation wasn't extended to the "other sheep" until after Jesus was rejected by the Jews, signified by his crucifixion.