OK so I correct my earlier mistake: it's matthew 10:6 where he says to only preach to jews.?

Question

while he did send them out twice why would gentile's hearts be like stone for the first one and then ok for the second? and since this is repeated in Matt: 10:5 and Matt:15:24 ( I double checked this time and I've seen John 4:22 writen as salvation being OF and FROM the jews, with Paul being a Roman and needing to reach the west is it natural that he and his followers wrote the gospels in their favor? remember: paul wasn't a converted jew, he was a turk and full roman citizen and he wrote Acts where jesus tells them to go to gentiles.

paul does identify himself as a jew but since he also used his roman status to his advantage it makes me wonder if he was lying about this.

Answer 1

Paul was not a Jew?

Paul said he was "a Jew, from the tribe of Benjamin, a pharisee of the pharisees".
Was he lying?

Answer 2

DURING JESUS' MINISTRY, the mission was ONLY to Jews, but AFTER HIS DEATH, it was ALL NATIONS, Matthew 28:18-20...
Verse 19 -- "Therefore, go and make disciples of ALL THE NATIONS, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit."


Paul did NOT write Acts. By a process of elimination, using points in Acts where the author writes "we" did something, compared with sections of Paul's letters written at different times, from different places, and while traveling with different people, it has been determined with some degree of certainty that Luke was the writer of Acts. Luke was the only "evangelist," or Gospel writer, to have significant contact with Paul, but Matthew's account (aimed primarily at a Jewish audience) tells us much about the universality of the Gospel message... This makes sense when we consider that the Jews were the source of false teachings that Christians were bound by the law. They were the ones that needed to be told that the law was no longer the approach to God.

Paul, writing to the church in Rome said:
1:16 "For I am not ashamed of this Good News about Christ. It is the power of God at work, saving everyone who believes—the Jew first and also the Gentile."
...That salvation came through Israel and to them first is no mystery, even the Old Testament mentions frequently the UNIVERSALITY of the Gospel... for instance, see God's promise to Abram (Abraham), from Genesis 12:3 "...All the families on earth will be blessed through you."

Answer 3

Paul did not write the book of Acts. Luke did. Paul was a Jew who was also a Roman citizen. As to Salvation being of the Jews. The first covenant came through them. In addition Jesus was a Jew and our salvation is from Him. When Jesus was here His plan was to reach the Jews. However in the great commission he expanded who to teach and preach to.

Matthew 28:19 Therefore go and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
Mat 28:20 teaching them to observe all things, whatever I commanded you. And, behold, I am with you all the days until the end of the world. Amen.

Answer 4

This was what Jesus commanded of his disciples during his life on earth. God had another plan for the Gentiles after Christ's death and resurection, later revealed, as prophesied in scripture .
To the verse in Matt 15:24, he was setting up the lesson in faith that the woman had. Basically she said even the dog gets crumbs. Jesus healed her for her FAITH. As Christians, all who profess Jesus as Lord are grafted into the "house of Israel". We were lost but now found, as a Christian , we are the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
Again John 4:22 says salvation is of the Jews. This is reference to Jesus being from the House of JUDAH, this establishes the descendancy of his blood line, salvation is of Him, from Him, because of Him ( Jesus).

Paul was a pharisee( jew) with Roman citizenship. He killed Christians with the full authority of the law of the Romans and Herodians.

Answer 5

Paul was most definitely a Jew...he was also a Roman citizen.

Jesus said that he came for the Jews and told his disciples to spread the word to the Jews because they were God's chosen people. Jesus made it clear that what they were chosen to do was to reach out to the entire world for him...his role was to teach them what to say and do so they could accomplish this purpose...and that's exactly what they did. The Jews were God's designated messengers for the world and while many rejected his plan for them in favor of keeping their exclusive club intact, others followed his instructions to spread the good news to the world after he was gone!

Answer 6

I refer the Right Honorable Gentleman to the answer I gave moments ago.

But also I would like to add, when Jesus was talking about salvation coming from the Jews, he was talking to a non Jewish Samaritan woman. She was a descendant of Jacob, and so that would place her as being of the lines of the northern kingdom of Israel. ( or 'The House of Israel' ).

She was then by definition not a Jew, in any sense of the word except that her ancestors practiced the Law of Moses when they were still doing what they were supposed to be doing , but lost all that due to their idolatry. Jesus overlooked this, and merely was telling her where salvation would come from - the Descendants of the tribe of Judah ( through the line of David ) , not that it was only Jews who would be saved. Jesus told her this:

23 "Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. 24 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth."
( John 4 )

And then he stayed with those people for two days.

In that time, this is what happened:

39 Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman's testimony, "He told me everything I ever did." 40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they urged him to stay with them, and he stayed two days. 41 And because of his words many more became believers.

So salvation is to whoever God wants, who also begin to trust God. Not because the are descendants of anyone, but because of the promises of God.

Answer 7

Paul was a Pharisee ! Only Jews were Pharisees, and there were NO Turks 2000 years ago

Answer 8

Paul was a Jew.
http://www.jesusisajew.org/Saint_Paul_was_a_Jew.php

Answer 9

NEVER USE SMALL LETTERS TO SPELL J E S U S. JESUS IS LORD.