And if you salute only your near relatives, what praise is due to you? Do not even the Gentiles do the same?

"And when praying, do not use needless repetitions as the Gentiles do, for they expect to be listened to because of their multitude of words.

For all these are questions that Gentiles are always asking; but your Heavenly Father knows that you need these things--all of them.

These twelve Jesus sent on a mission, after giving them their instructions: "Go not," He said, "among the Gentiles, and enter no Samaritan town;

and you will even be put on trial before governors and kings for my sake, to bear witness to them and to the Gentiles.

If he refuses to hear them, appeal to the Church; and if he refuses to hear even the Church, regard him just as you regard a Gentile or a tax-gatherer.

and hand Him over to the Gentiles to be made sport of and scourged and crucified; and on the third day He will be raised to life."

But Jesus called them to Him, and said, "You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great men exercise authority over them.

And this Good News of the Kingdom shall be proclaimed throughout the whole world to set the evidence before all the Gentiles; and then the End will come.