Matthew 10:6

But make your way rather to the lost sheep of Israel.

Acts 3:26

For you, first, God raised up his Servant, and sent him to bless you, by turning each one of you from his wicked ways."

Then Paul and Barnabas spoke out fearlessly, and said: "It was necessary that the Message of God should be told to you first; but, since you reject it and reckon yourselves not worthy of the Immortal Life--we turn to the Gentiles!

Matthew 15:24-26

"I was not sent," replied Jesus, "to any one except the lost sheep of Israel."

Matthew 18:10

Beware of despising one of these lowly ones, for in Heaven, I tell you, their angels always see the face of my Father who is in Heaven.

Luke 15:3-10

So Jesus told them this parable--

Luke 24:47

And that repentance for forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed on his authority to all the nations--beginning at Jerusalem.

Acts 18:6

However, as they set themselves against him and became abusive, Paul shook his clothes in protest and said to them: "Your blood be on your own heads. My conscience is clear. From this time forward I shall go to the Gentiles."

Acts 26:20

On the contrary, first to those at Damascus and Jerusalem, and then through the whole of Judea, and to the Gentiles as well, I began to preach repentance and conversion to God, and a life befitting that repentance.

Acts 28:25-28

So, as they disagreed among themselves, they began to disperse, Paul adding only--"True, indeed, was the declaration made by the Holy Spirit, through the Prophet Isaiah to your ancestors--

Romans 11:11-15

I ask then--'Was their stumbling to result in their fall?' Heaven forbid! On the contrary, through their falling away Salvation has reached the Gentiles, to stir the rivalry of Israel.