Chapters 28 - 35 Summary and Analysis

Christ came to Earth for the redemption not only of the Jews, but of all the nations of the world. God's plan, however, was that salvation would come from the Jews, and thus, as recounted in the Old Testament, the Jews were raised up as God's chosen people and they would produce the Messiah. Likewise, Christ more or less confined his teaching to the Jews—his Apostles would evangelize the Gentiles after his death. Nonetheless, Jesus does interact with Gentiles on several occasions in the Gospel, even performing miracles for some of them. In fact, the faith of some Gentiles is so great—even greater than the faith he found among the Jews—that he says that the Gentile nations will testify against the Jews who denied him on the day of judgment.

As the opposition...