I am not sent (or better, I was not sent) except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. This, then, was what had rest…

But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

Christ's personal ministry was confined to t…

St. Jerome: Leaving the Scribes, Pharisees, and those critics, He passes into the regions of Tyre and Sidon so that He may he…

Matthew’s Jewish readers would be intensely interested in Jesus’ doing a miracle to aid a Gentile, on Gentile territory. Jesus’ silence does not qu…

I am not sent. He informs the Apostles that his reason for refusing the woman of Canaan arises from his desire to devote himself entirely …

But he answered, and said
To his disciples, who knew how limited their commission was, that they were not to go into…

The dark corners of the country, the most remote, will share Christ's influences; afterwards, the ends of the earth will see His salvation. The dis…

Above, the sufficiency of His teaching was shown, because it did not require the observance of the Law. Here He shows that it is not restricted to …