Matthew 6:6:
Doesn't make much sense to me for one BIG reason.
Do not give what is holy to dogs, and do not throw your pearls before swine, or they will trample them under foot and turn and maul you.
Jesus is a Jew. One who's there to fulfill the law.
Setting aside the surely allegorical synoptic miracle story of the demon called Legion going into swine (set in the Decapolis and hold on to that)
He theoretically wouldn't have been around swine at all in the first place.
So, what is he getting at?
Is this an affirmation of a gentiles-only mission?
(2 Peter does talk about a sow returning to wallowing in the mud, but there's a good chance that book was written in the second century CE, after proto-Christianity and proto-Judaism had started separating.)
Luke doesn't have it, after all.
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