What happened just before the instruction at Matthew 10:5?
Just before Matthew 10:5, Jesus had just chosen the twelve in Galilee. This selection preceded His instruction to them. The context indicates He chose them up there in Galilee, and then He begins speaking at verse 5. According to the context, this choosing happened before the instruction.
Les explains that just before Matthew 10:5, Jesus had just chosen the twelve up in Galilee. This choosing immediately precedes the instruction He gives starting at verse 5. Les notes that this instruction is part of Jesus' direction to the twelve, and that their ministry is confined to the Jew, while Paul and Barnabas later go to the Gentile. The context also shows that Jesus knows the end from the beginning and that in the Acts account the message is only to the nation of Israel. So the setting is Jesus having just selected the twelve before teaching them.
These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not:
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Why are people shocked by the instructions Jesus gives the Twelve in Matthew 10?
In Matthew 10, when Jesus began His earthly ministry and called the Twelve, He gives instructions that shock people because they do not know they are in their Bible.