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Could you please explain the Holy Gospel of St. Mark 7:27-29?
"But He answered and said, "I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel." Then she came and worshiped Him, saying, "Lord, help me!" But He answered and…
In Matthew 10:5,6, why did our Lord Jesus Christ ask His disciples not to go or preach to the Gentiles or the Samaritans; but only to the Jews?
Why did the early Christian Jews resist the idea of the Gentiles being accepted into the faith until Peter explained to them the incident of Cornelius, while in the Old…

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