How can you say this? Peter, and the others, definitely were commissioned to do so.
Matthew 10:
[5] These twelve Jesus sent out, charging them, "Go nowhere among the Gentiles, and enter no town of the Samaritans,
[6] but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
Wow. Another completely unexpected deviation from the meaning I thought was common.
This command was given before the Resurrection. During Jesus' earthly ministry He sent His Disciples out in the Judean land to speak repentence and the Kingdom's inninence to the Jews.
After His Resurrection, He expanded the ministry to all nations. We see this when He tells them to make disciples of all the nations. The earlier, pre-Resurrection, ministry to the Jews was expanded.
To read this text as Jesus prohibiting the Apostles from ever, ever, going out to the nations is contrary not only to the later charge Jesus gives, but also to history, which is replete with far flung Churches established by Apostles.
Is it your belief that the Lost Tribes and the lost sheep of the house of Israel are not one and the same?
The Lost Tribes are not the "lost sheep." The lost sheep are the ones in Israel at the time, the Jews who had fallen away, the ones that Jesus came to call to repent.
The Lost Tribes are in faraway lands, if known at all. Certainly the Apostles did not go to visit them while JEsus was on earth.
So, the entire argument that Peter coudl not have been in Rome because of this verse is preposterous.
SD
it is probably the most often repeated, painstakingly explained and plain spoken thing He is recorded as saying. How vague is this? "THIS IS MY BODY"
Of course, underlying this is your assumption that the Catholic church's interpretation of these words is correct.
You mean, it matters what "is" is? ;-)
SD