{"id":3300,"date":"2016-03-08T13:29:28","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T12:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/filozofia.nett.to\/krestanstvo\/jesus-said-that-christianity-was-not-to-be-preached-to-the-gentiles\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T21:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T20:18:11","slug":"jesus-said-that-christianity-was-not-to-be-preached-to-the-gentiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filozofia.nett.to\/krestanstvo\/en\/jesus-said-that-christianity-was-not-to-be-preached-to-the-gentiles\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesus said that Christianity was not to be preached to the Gentiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jesus wanted Christianity to be preached exclusively to the Jews, not to other nations. We have clear evidence of this in the Bible.<br \/><br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/svatepismo.sk\/listovat.php?kniha=47&#038;kapitola=10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Gospel According to Matthew &#8211; Chapter 10<\/a><br \/> <em>5<\/em> These twelve Jesus sent out and commanded them, saying, &quot;Do not go into the way of the Gentiles, and do not enter any city of the Samaritans;&quot;<br \/> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <strong>These are very harsh words against the evangelization of non-Jewish and non-Semitic nations. Samaritans were practically a semi-Jewish denomination; the inhabitants of Samaria were partly of Jewish faith. So, Jesus forbade even semi-Jews from preaching the gospel to them, let alone Jews.<\/strong><br \/> <strong>In the explanatory notes in the Catholic Bible, we find the following:<\/strong><br \/> <em>Samaria, the central province of Palestine, is named after its original capital, Samaria. It was inhabited by Samaritans, a people of various tribes and nations settled there after 720 BC by the Assyrian king Sargon II and his successors.<\/em> <em><u>The Samaritans partially adopted the Jewish religion but also retained many pagan superstitions and customs.<\/u><\/em> <em>Around 400 BC, they built their own sanctuary on Mount Gerizim (near Shechem &#8211; today&#39;s Nablus). Due to their mixed, &quot;impure&quot; origin and semi-pagan religion, they were a thorn in the side of the Jews.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jesus wanted Christianity to be preached exclusively to the Jews, not to other nations. We have clear evidence of this in the Bible.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filozofia.nett.to\/krestanstvo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filozofia.nett.to\/krestanstvo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filozofia.nett.to\/krestanstvo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filozofia.nett.to\/krestanstvo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filozofia.nett.to\/krestanstvo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/filozofia.nett.to\/krestanstvo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filozofia.nett.to\/krestanstvo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filozofia.nett.to\/krestanstvo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filozofia.nett.to\/krestanstvo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}