[Petrosius]

When Jesus sent them out, He was still offering Himself to the Jews as their Messiah. ALL of Judaism was then still under the laws of sin and death and Messiah was giving to these disciples a special dispensation FROM MESSIAH which would proclaim His right to supercede the yearly atonement for sins. You are a product of expert conflation, so mixing perspectives and dispensations that you cannot see the forest for the trees.

What a specious interpretation and attempt to escape the clear words of our Lord. There is nothing in the account to suggest that this was limited only to the Jews.

When Jesus sent them forth prior to the Cross there was most definitely a difference between Jew and Gentile and Jesus confirmed this with two or three instances, such as the woman who came to Him begging for healing for her daughter.

The granting the authority to forgive sins came after the Resurrection.