John 20:23 "If you forgive anyone’s sins, their sins are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven.”
Which is spoken to Jesus' Jewish disciples. Hence he places upon them the gift of atoning for everyone by this means. Its very challenging and gets a lot of them killed, but they do a great job. Obviously some are a little bit scared of doing this; and they do things differently. This is, however, how Jesus defines the fulfillment of restoration prophecy and so forth. He envisions this as world changing. We can see this in the gospels, the things he says to the Samaritan Lady, the things his mother prophesies about him, the things other people say about him. According to the story in Mark 16, his twelve disciples go all over the world seeking out all the other Jewish remnants and announcing this to them. Finally according to Acts we have new apostles appearing who are not Jesus twelve, and these include Paul and some others and speak not to Jews but to everybody. Paul goes so far as to style himself as the apostle to the gentiles. One might credibly wonder why only one apostle to the Gentiles while the Jews get twelve, however I doubt he is the only apostle to the gentiles. I don't know, maybe. Maybe he is or maybe he isn't. The question is whether Christ considers there to be anyone now who is a gentile, since Paul says there is neither Jew nor Gentile. Hence maybe that is how he is the only apostle to the gentiles.
And they don't exist in mortal man.
