I'm sorry....you are correct. That was a poor choice of words on my part.
As to not having a ministry to the gentiles, I think that is exactly what you were saying. Until Saul of Tarsus. I think you have been saying that Jesus commanded the 12 to go forth to the lost tribes of Israel. And that only Saul of Tarsus was to have a ministry to the Gentiles.
You are forgetting Luke, Timothy, Barnabas as well as hundreds of other disciples who went out among the Gentiles. All I have ever said was that the original twelve were told not to go there. The ministry to the Gentiles was not an instantaneous thing.....it came later.
You are absolutely right...it came later. But it was ministered via many of the apostles. Again, I will point out that the Acts of the Apostles was written by Luke, who accompanied Paul after his (Luke's) conversion. That happened when Paul visited Troas. In an earlier post (don't have time right now to dig it out), I showed where the narrative in the Acts changed from the third person (he/they) to the first person (I/we).
That is not to try to take anything away from St Luke or the Acts, but it is simply a fact. None of the acts of the other apostles were recorded in a similar narrative. Just because their acts were not chronicled doesn't mean that they did nothing...For example Peter identifies himself as in "Babylon" (Rome) and John indicated that he was at Patmos.
One notable example that is widely accepted through tradition (small "t"), though not recorded in scripture, is the example of St. Thomas. Tradition states (and I see no reason to discount it) that he travelled east and spread the gospel to the Chaldeans and ended up in the Malabar province of India.
So those are three examples of where the 12 went out among the gentiles. There are others...but I just truly don't have time to devote right now.