נשלחתי אל צאן האובדות של בית ישראל בלבד
Samaria doesn’t need to be saved. Judea doesn’t need to be saved. Jerusalem doesn’t need to be saved. Archipelagos don’t need to be saved. They don’t need to be saved because the Savior comes from them.
It’s Israel that needs to be saved;
The Church’s Debt to Heretics, Jones, 1924, pp. 15–16: What we may properly call "Galilean Christianity" had a short life, though there have been notable attempts to revive it and make it live again, and here and there spiritual prophets have insisted that anything else other than this simple Galilean religion is "heresy";
Roderick C. Meredith: Contrary to the heretical Protestant ideas that the Apostle Paul was used by God to "reinvent" Christianity, the real Apostle Paul of the Bible constantly showed deep respect for the original apostles and deferred to the leadership of Jerusalem in all major matters [Galatians 2:1–2].
Edward Gibbon: The first fifteen bishops of Jerusalem were all circumcised Jews; and the congregation over which they presided united the law of Moses with the doctrine of Christ. It was natural that the primitive tradition of a church which was founded only forty days after the death of Christ, and was governed almost as many years under the immediate inspection of his apostle, should be received as the standard of orthodoxy. The distant churches very frequently appealed to the authority of their venerable Parent.
