Mark 7:27

Don’t speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.

But the Lord said to him, “Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the children of Israel.

who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;

But he answered, “I wasn’t sent to anyone but the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”

and sent messengers before his face. They went and entered into a village of the Samaritans, so as to prepare for him.

The Samaritan woman therefore said to him, “How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

For however many are the promises of God, in him is the “Yes.” Therefore also through him is the “Amen”, to the glory of God through us.

However at that time, not knowing God, you were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods.

You, being in past times alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil deeds,

Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession: Jesus,

Don’t reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you. Reprove a wise person, and he will love you.

As a dog that returns to his vomit, so is a fool who repeats his folly.

“Don’t give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.

He sent them out to preach God’s Kingdom and to heal the sick.

He came to his own, and those who were his own didn’t receive him.

“Be it known therefore to you, that the salvation of God is sent to the nations, and they will listen.”

how that by revelation the mystery was made known to me, as I wrote before in few words,

not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don’t know God,

But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope.

In that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying, “I have given this land to your offspring, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:

You shall not bring the hire of a prostitute, or the wages of a male prostitute, into the house of Yahweh your God for any vow; for both of these are an abomination to Yahweh your God.

Yahweh, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you will be disappointed. Those who depart from me will be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Yahweh, the spring of living waters.

Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them. It will be an everlasting covenant with them. I will place them, multiply them, and will set my sanctuary among them forever more.

Jesus sent these twelve out, and commanded them, saying, “Don’t go among the Gentiles, and don’t enter into any city of the Samaritans.

But he answered, “It is not appropriate to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”

So he came to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son, Joseph.

I have other sheep, which are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd.

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

Jesus therefore said to them again, “Peace be to you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you.”

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”

Saul was consenting to his death. A great persecution arose against the assembly which was in Jerusalem in that day. They were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except for the apostles.

As they served the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, “Separate Barnabas and Saul for me, for the work to which I have called them.”

Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, and said, “It was necessary that God’s word should be spoken to you first. Since indeed you thrust it from yourselves, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.

But these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.

“He said to me, ‘Depart, for I will send you out far from here to the Gentiles.’”

Now I stand here to be judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers,

When neither sun nor stars shone on us for many days, and no small storm pressed on us, all hope that we would be saved was now taken away.

For this cause therefore I asked to see you and to speak with you. For because of the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.”

(for when Gentiles who don’t have the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves,

For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the offspring, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.

See then the goodness and severity of God. Toward those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness; otherwise you also will be cut off.

For as you in time past were disobedient to God, but now have obtained mercy by their disobedience,

having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and of the household of God,

if it is so that you have heard of the administration of that grace of God which was given me toward you,

being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts.

Beware of the dogs; beware of the evil workers; beware of the false circumcision.

How much worse punishment do you think he will be judged worthy of who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

All who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor, and to Shechem his son; and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city.

The pig, because it has a split hoof, and is cloven-footed, but doesn’t chew the cud, is unclean to you.

Hazael said, “But what is your servant, who is but a dog, that he could do this great thing?” Elisha answered, “Yahweh has shown me that you will be king over Syria.”

The king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, from Cuthah, from Avva, and from Hamath and Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel; and they possessed Samaria, and lived in its cities.

But the people stayed quiet, and answered him not a word; for the king’s commandment was, “Don’t answer him.”

Now for a long time Israel was without the true God, without a teaching priest, and without law.

But Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the heads of fathers’ households of Israel, said to them, “You have nothing to do with us in building a house to our God; but we ourselves together will build to Yahweh, the God of Israel, as king Cyrus the king of Persia has commanded us.”

I was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good. My sorrow was stirred.

If a wise man goes to court with a foolish man, the fool rages or scoffs, and there is no peace.

But they remained silent, and said nothing in reply, for the king’s commandment was, “Don’t answer him.”

You hope of Israel, its Savior in the time of trouble, why should you be as a foreigner in the land, and as a wayfaring man who turns aside to stay for a night?

“My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and who utter lying divinations. They will not be in the council of my people, neither will they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither will they enter into the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.”

For the children of Israel shall live many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without sacred stone, and without ephod or idols.

“The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, toward the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles,

He entered into a boat, and crossed over, and came into his own city.

and sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding feast, but they would not come.

to show mercy toward our fathers, to remember his holy covenant,

Now after these things, the Lord also appointed seventy others, and sent them two by two ahead of him into every city and place where he was about to come.

But a certain Samaritan, as he traveled, came where he was. When he saw him, he was moved with compassion,

He fell on his face at Jesus’ feet, giving him thanks; and he was a Samaritan.

He questioned him with many words, but he gave no answers.

Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.”

You worship that which you don’t know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews.

The Jews therefore said among themselves, “Where will this man go that we won’t find him? Will he go to the Dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?

Then the Jews answered him, “Don’t we say well that you are a Samaritan, and have a demon?”

Philip came and told Andrew, and in turn, Andrew came with Philip, and they told Jesus.

You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘All the families of the earth will be blessed through your offspring.’

‘Behold, you scoffers, and wonder, and perish; for I work a work in your days, a work which you will in no way believe, if one declares it to you.’ ”

For so has the Lord commanded us, saying, ‘I have set you as a light for the Gentiles, that you should bring salvation to the uttermost parts of the earth.’ ”

When they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook out his clothing and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am clean. From now on, I will go to the Gentiles!”

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God,

I am debtor both to Greeks and to foreigners, both to the wise and to the foolish.

Or is God the God of Jews only? Isn’t he the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also,

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But if anyone is ignorant, let him be ignorant.

that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved, to fill up their sins always. But wrath has come on them to the uttermost.

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ according to the commandment of God our Savior and the Lord Jesus Christ our hope;

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.

quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness were made strong, grew mighty in war, and caused foreign armies to flee.

Now I say that Christ has been made a servant of the circumcision for the truth of God, that he might confirm the promises given to the fathers,