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It seems to me that Jesus was not interested in exclusivity in his teachings.

Yeah; I always wondered about THIS:

Matthew 15:21-28

21. Leaving that place, Jesus withdrew to the region of Tyre and Sidon.
22. A Canaanite woman from that vicinity came to him, crying out, "Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me! My daughter is suffering terribly from demon-possession."
23. Jesus did not answer a word. So his disciples came to him and urged him, "Send her away, for she keeps crying out after us."
24. He answered, "I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel."
25. The woman came and knelt before him. "Lord, help me!" she said.
26. He replied, "It is not right to take the children's bread and toss it to their dogs."
27. "Yes, Lord," she said, "but even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters' table."
28. Then Jesus answered, "Woman, you have great faith! Your request is granted." And her daughter was healed from that very hour.

""If they just knew Josh!" his mother, Diana White, exclaimed between sobs. "He just made a mistake. Everybody plays on the job, even cops. But with this one, it caught up. He's going to pay for it for the rest of his life." "

That's a very interesting passage, to be sure. It is paralleled by others where Jesus says that he is there to be the Messiah to the Jews only.

In other passages, he corrects himself. It's a tough one to figure out. Either Jesus was misquoted, or he didn't know what he was on Earth for, or the New Testament was messed with to include Gentiles.

You have found a key passage...one that has been at the center of a lot of discussion.

If you want my opinion, it is that the New Testament was much fiddled with around the time of the establishment of the Canon. Of all the writings available at the time, only some were selected. Others were discarded. How much redaction was done on what was included is pretty much impossible to tell at this point.