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NASB | James 1:1 James, a bond-servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, ¶ To the twelve tribes who are dispersed abroad: Greetings. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | James 1:1 James, a bond-servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve [Hebrew] tribes [scattered abroad among the Gentiles] in the dispersion: Greetings (rejoice)! |
Bible Question (short): Why not Jews only? |
Question (full): But what early Christian and other scholarly sources causes you to think that the dispersion that Peter addresses is made up of more than Jews? Couldn't Peter be addressing Jews only? Why think that "dispersion" would include other groups than Jews? |