The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 10:5
Limited commissions. "Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not." We may find reason for this limitation of the sphere of the apostles in the fact that this was strictly a trial-mission , in which they were to learn how to fulfil the larger mission which would be entrusted to them by-and-by. When the war-ship is nearly ready for sea, it is required to make a trial-trip; but then its course is strictly defined and limited. But there is... read more
The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 10:5
Matthew only. The sphere of their work. The reasons for the limitation here expressly enforced are: read more