[Diego1618]

You can say any word of Scripture means anything you want it to. You just spent a lot of time telling me how NATION really means TRIBE and that it refers to the Lost Tribes of Israel. Just because you say that, how do I know that what you say is true? Just because you've deduced it? Or because someone else has? How do I know you're not wrong? Just because you keep saying the same thing over and over again doesn't make it true.

You can believe that it is factual as other scripture backs it up. Jesus did not send the Twelve to the Gentiles....no matter what you say. He sent them to the Israelites.

If you don't believe this....how do you square up [Galatians 2:7]????

The fact that the mainstream church translates and teaches this as Gentiles....does not make it correct. Tribes is the preferred meaning in [Matthew 28:19].

[MarkBsnr]

You can believe that it is factual as other scripture backs it up. Jesus did not send the Twelve to the Gentiles....no matter what you say. He sent them to the Israelites.

Well, Peter did spend some time in Antioch, possibly in Corinth and died in Rome.

[nanetteclaret]

"Tribes is the preferred meaning" Says who? You?

[Salvation]

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¹¹ Then Jesus approached and said to them, "All power in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

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Go, therefore, ¹² and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the holy Spirit,

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teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. ¹³ And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age."

 

And the footnotes:

 

¹¹ [18] All power . . . me: the Greek word here translated power is the same as that found in the LXX translation of Daniel 7:13-14 where one "like a son of man" is given power and an everlasting kingdom by God. The risen Jesus here claims universal power, i.e., in heaven and on earth.

 

¹² [19] Therefore: since universal power belongs to the risen Jesus (Matthew 28:18), he gives the eleven a mission that is universal. They are to make disciples of all nations. While all nations is understood by some scholars as referring only to all Gentiles, it is probable that it included the Jews as well. Baptizing them: baptism is the means of entrance into the community of the risen one, the Church. In the name of the Father . . . holy Spirit: this is perhaps the clearest expression in the New Testament of trinitarian belief. It may have been the baptismal formula of Matthew's church, but primarily it designates the effect of baptism, the union of the one baptized with the Father, Son, and holy Spirit.

 

¹³ [20] All that I have commanded you: the moral teaching found in this gospel, preeminently that of the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7). The commandments of Jesus are the standard of Christian conduct, not the Mosaic law as such, even though some of the Mosaic commandments have now been invested with the authority of Jesus. Behold, I am with you always: the promise of Jesus' real though invisible presence echoes the name Emmanuel given to him in the infancy narrative; see the note on Matthew 1:23. End of the age: see the notes on Matthew 13:39 and Matthew 24:3.