Matthew 10:6
“But goe rather to the lost sheepe of the house of Israel.”
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Matthew 10:6 Context
4Simon the Canaanite, and Iudas Iscariot, who also betrayed him. 5These twelue Iesus sent foorth, and commanded them, saying, Goe not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not: 6But goe rather to the lost sheepe of the house of Israel. 7And as yee goe, preach, saying, The kingdome of heauen is at hand: 8Heale the sicke, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out deuils: freely ye haue receiued, freely giue.
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Other Translations for Matthew 10:6
But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
- King James Version
but rather go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
- American Standard Version (1901)
But go to the wandering sheep of the house of Israel,
- Basic English Bible
but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
- Darby Bible
But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
- Webster's Bible
but, instead of that, go to the lost sheep of Israel's race.
- Weymouth Bible
Rather, go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
- World English Bible
but rather go ye to the scheep of the hous of Israel, that han perischid.
- Wycliffe Bible
and be going rather unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
- Youngs Literal Bible
People's Bible Notes for Matthew 10:6
Mt 10:6 The lost sheep of the house of Israel. The lost descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Compare this commission with the one given to the apostles after the death and resurrection of the Lord (Mt 10:5,6 28:19). In this commission the apostles are forbidden to go to the Gentiles or the Samaritans, and are confined to the house of Israel. In the other they are commanded to go into "all the world" (Mt 24:14) and to "preach the gospel to every creature" (Mr 16:15); to go "first to Jerusalem, and to Judea, and to Samaria and to the uttermost part of the earth" (Ac 1:8). The first commission is Jewish; the second is world-wide. Yet both are given by the same Lord; why this wide difference? Because the new dispensation was not ushered in until after the resurrection. The Jewish law, national, exclusive, a wall of partition from Gentiles, was yet in force. Christ, "born under the law", and the apostles also were under it until it was removed. They could not keep it and yet become missionaries to the Gentiles. But when Christ died the old dispensation, the law, died with him. "The handwriting of ordinances was nailed to the cross" (Col 2:14). The old covenant passed away when the new came into force, sealed with the blood of Christ. After the death and resurrection of Christ, the law ceased to be binding upon the apostles. The distinctions of Jew and Gentile were destroyed. Hence, under the new covenant, the world-wide covenant, there was a new commission that would send the gospel to all the world. The old covenant was with the seed of Abraham; the new covenant embraced all nations. See Heb 8:13.