He came to what was his own, but his own people did not receive him.
So he answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”
But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to be king over us!’
He was in the world, and the world was created by him, but the world did not recognize him.
But to all who have received him – those who believe in his name – he has given the right to become God’s children
He then said to his disciple, “Look, here is your mother!” From that very time the disciple took her into his own home.
He testifies about what he has seen and heard, but no one accepts his testimony.
Brothers, descendants of Abraham’s family, and those Gentiles among you who fear God, the message of this salvation has been sent to us.
Both Paul and Barnabas replied courageously, “It was necessary to speak the word of God to you first. Since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we are turning to the Gentiles.
we said farewell to one another. Then we went aboard the ship, and they returned to their own homes.
For I tell you that Christ has become a servant of the circumcised on behalf of God’s truth to confirm the promises made to the fathers,
I am telling the truth in Christ (I am not lying!), for my conscience assures me in the Holy Spirit –
To them belong the patriarchs, and from them, by human descent, came the Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever! Amen.
But when the appropriate time had come, God sent out his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,