He commanded this of all nations, all people not the Jews only.
Mk. 16:15 And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation. 16 Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
Matt. 28:19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
This was after his death, burial and resurrection.
It was fulfilled before Pentecost. When was if fulfilled and done away with?
Eph. 2:14 For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility 15 by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, 16 and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility.
He told his disciples who were Gentiles or Judeans?
That is different than to whom those Judeans were sent to.
Was Jonah sent to Nineveh? Was that a Judean city or a Gentile city?
Thus going to the Gentiles is nothing new.
However, the scope of Jesus' ministry was to the lost sheep of the house of Israel only.
He did not go to the Gentiles, he obeyed his God and Father and kept within the confines of the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
Since Jesus told them to baptize we could ask what form was that baptism, for both John and Jesus foretold that John's baptism, that is water baptism, would be replaced by the baptism that Jesus Christ would institute, namely the baptism in holy spirit. Acts 1:5,8
This baptism in pneuma hagion resulted in the believers receiving power
John's baptism is referred to as a baptism unto repentance
Mark 1:4 John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins.
Acts 13:24 When John had first preached before his coming the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.
Eph. 2:14 For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility 15 by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, 16 and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility.
Good point, yet there was more to fulfill.
Another passage that shows that Jesus finished something was when he cried out, It is finished.
He finished something at that point in time that is for sure.
Our redemption
There was still law to fulfill.
Even after the resurrection, he still had law to fulfill
John 20:17 a duty of the high priest to wave the sheaf of the first fruits before the Lord Lev 23:10-11, while He, the first fruits from the dead... From EW Bullinger's Companion Bible p. 1571
and again a reference to a prophecy and commandment about and to Jesus Christ, Acts 2:34-35
The law included the law specifically to Jesus Christ, even as certain laws were specifically to priests, high priests, husbands, wives, children, etc.
