""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.
""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." " ???
My reasoning on what Jesus said is that the JEWS were the chosen people, the ones to take God's message to the world, and Jesus was the cuminateing (sp?) figure.
IF the Jews had accepted Him as Savior (more than what did), then possibly Paul would not have been needed as an envoy to the Gentiles. (Hard to say what MIGHT have happened.)