Matthew 10:6

Jesus Sends Out The Twelve Apostles

⁵ These twelve Jesus sent forth, having ordered them, saying, Go not into a way of the Gentiles, and enter not into a city of the Samaritans, ⁶ but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. ⁷ And while going, preach, saying, The kingdom of the heavens has come near.

House of Israel

Lost Sheep

People of Israel

Israel

Jeremiah 50:6

My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds have caused them to go astray. They have turned them away on the mountains. They have gone from mountain to hill. They have forgotten their resting-place.

Psalm 119:176

I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek thy servant, for I do not forget thy commandments.

Isaiah 53:6

All we like sheep have gone astray. We have turned every one to his own way, and LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Acts 3:26

To you first, having raised up his Boy Jesus, God sent him blessing you, in turning away each man from your evils.

Acts 13:46

But having spoken boldly, Paul and Barnabas said, It was necessary for the word of God to be spoken first to you, but since ye thrust it away, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.

Jeremiah 50:17

Israel is a hunted sheep, the lions have driven him away. First, the king of Assyria devoured him, and now at last Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.

Ezekiel 34:6

My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill. Yea, my sheep were scattered upon all the face of the earth, and there was none who searched or sought.

Ezekiel 34:8

As I live, says lord LORD, surely inasmuch as my sheep became a prey, and my sheep became food to all the beasts of the field, because there was no shepherd, nor did my shepherds search for my sheep, but the shepherds fed themselve

Ezekiel 34:16

I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick, but I will destroy the fat and the strong. I will feed them in justic

Matthew 15:24-26

But having answered, he said, I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

Matthew 18:10

See that ye not disparage one of these little ones, for I say to you, that in the heavens their agents do always behold the face of my Father in the heavens.

Luke 15:3-10

And he spoke this parable to them, saying,

Luke 24:47

and to proclaim in his name repentance and remission of sins for all the nations, having begun from Jerusalem.

Acts 18:6

But when they opposed and slandered him, having shaken out his clothes, he said to them, Your blood is upon your heads. I am clean. From henceforth I will go to the Gentiles.

Acts 26:20

but declaring first to those at Damascus and then at Jerusalem, and in all the region of Judea, and to the Gentiles, to repent and return to God, doing works worthy of repentance.

Acts 28:25-28

And being discord among each other, they departed after Paul spoke one thing, saying, Well spoke the Holy Spirit through Isaiah the prophet to our fathers,

Romans 11:11-15

I say then, did they stumble so that they would fall? May it not happen! But in their transgression, salvation is to the Gentiles, in order to provoke them to jealousy.

1 Peter 2:25

For ye were like sheep going astray, but now were returned to the Shepherd and Guardian of your souls.