>> “they were the audience Jesus sought.” <<
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No, they were not. He states who he sought in Matthew 10 and 15. He ‘sought’ “the lost sheep of the House of Israel,” and not one Jew in the first century fell into that class of persons.
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Well, it was Jewish territory he traveled, and Jewish people he sermonized to. He didn't leave the country before the crucifixion, far as I remember.