A Light Has Shined for the Gentiles

For them, gentiles were diferently outsiders, differetly unclean, generally outsiders. And this is going to be a part of what matthew's going to try to correct in them as this has actually been our mission all along. What jesus is going to do in capernaum is going to have massive implications for a larger, the larger mission of what god's doing with the whole wide world. He shows up in copernaum, and we're told that he picks up the mantle and starts telling people, repent, for the kingdom of heaven is here.