ContradictionsReading order 341Bible context 2 min read
Should the gospel be preached to everyone?
An Israel-focused mission and specific geographical prohibitions contrast with universal preaching commands and actual Samaritan and Gentile missions.
- Textual conflict
- Weak tension
- The alleged conflict needs substantial assumptions, such as treating an omission as a denial or figurative language as literal.
- Importance
- Major
- A major event or claim with wider implications.
Geographically restricted commissions and later universal missions concern different stages rather than simultaneous incompatible instructions.
An editorial assessment of the quoted passages. Importance describes the stakes; it does not increase certainty. Reading order weighs both.
Jesus and the Spirit restrict some preaching destinations
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: But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
Matthew 10:5-6
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
Read the full chapter:Matthew 10
But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
Matthew 15:24
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
Read the full chapter:Matthew 15