Was Paul the apostle to the Jews or to the Gentiles?
Paul was primarily the apostle to the Gentiles. Though he also went to the Jews, his conversion on the road to Damascus was specifically to send him far hence to the Gentiles. Through Israel's fall, salvation came to the Gentiles under a different format.
Les explains that Israel stumbled over their Messiah, but God is not through with His covenant people. Through their fall, salvation came to the Gentiles. Instead of using the whole nation of Israel as priests to bring Gentiles to Jehovah, God raised up one Jew, Saul of Tarsus, a renegade zealous for the law, and saved him by grace on the road to Damascus. God told Saul, "I'm going to send you far hence to the Gentiles." Les notes Saul would also go to the Jew, but he was primarily the apostle of the Gentiles, converted for that purpose. Paul then asks if they stumbled that God should remove them completely, and answers, No way.
For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:
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Where does Paul call himself the apostle of the Gentiles?
Paul states in Romans 11:13 that he is the apostle of the Gentiles.