Footnote
b All of this took place during the latter half of the final week of the “seventy weeks” of years foretold in Daniel 9:24-27a. During that 70th “week” Jehovah God was keeping in force toward the natural Israelites the Abrahamic covenant in which the Israelites found themselves by natural descent from Abraham. (Gen. 12:1-3; 22:18) In contrast with Philip who fled from the persecution to Samaria, Acts 11:19 tells us: “Those who had been scattered by the tribulation that arose over Stephen went through as far as Phoenicia and [the island of] Cyprus and Antioch [in Syria], but speaking the word to no one except to Jews only.” The 70th “week” of special favor to the natural Jews because of the Abrahamic covenant ended in early autumn of 36 C.E., it having begun with Jesus’ baptism and anointing in 29 C.E. So the admittance of the baptized Samaritans to the heavenly Kingdom privileges did not open the way for all other non-Jews “to the most distant part of the earth” or spearhead the great flow of such uncircumcised Gentiles into the spirit-begotten Christian congregation.