Matthew 10:6

Jesus Sends Out The Twelve Apostles

⁵ These twelve Jesus sent, having announced to them, saying, Go not in the way of the nations, and into the city of the Samaritans enter ye not. ⁶ But rather go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. ⁷ And going, proclaim, saying, That the kingdom of the heavens has drawn near.

House of Israel

Lost Sheep

People of Israel

Israel

Jeremiah 50:6

My people were lost sheep: their shepherds caused them to wander, they turned them away in the mountains: they went from mountain to hill, they forgot their place to lie down.

Psalm 119:176

I wandered as a lost sheep; seek thy servant, for I forgat not thy commands.

Isaiah 53:6

All we as sheep went astray; we turned a man to his way; and Jehovah caused the iniquity of us all to fall upon him.

Acts 3:26

To you first God, having raised up his child Jesus, sent him praising you, in turning away each from your wickedness.

Acts 13:46

And Paul and Barnabas speaking freely, said, To you was it first necessary for the word of God to be spoken: but since ye reject it, and judge yourselves not worthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the nations.

Jeremiah 50:17

Israel a scattered sheep; the lions thrust away: first the king of Assur consumed him; and the last this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel bound him fast

Ezekiel 34:6

My sheep will wander upon all the mountains, and upon every high hill: and upon all the face of the earth my flock was scattered, and none searching and none seeking.

Ezekiel 34:8

I live, says the Lord Jehovah, if not my sheep were for plunder and my sheep will be for consuming to all the beasts of the field from no shepherd; and the shepherds sought not my sheep, and the shepherds will feed themselves, and my sheep they fed not

Ezekiel 34:16

The lost I will seek out, and the thrust away I will turn back, and to the broken I will bind up, and the diseased I will strengthen: and the fat and the strong I will destroy; I will feed them with judgment

Matthew 15:24-26

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

Matthew 18:10

See that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say to you, That their messengers in the heavens always behold the face of my Father which is in the heavens.

Luke 15:3-10

And he spake this parable to them, saying,

Luke 24:47

And repentance and remission of sins to be proclaimed in his name to all nations, having begun from Jerusalem.

Acts 18:6

And they opposing, and blaspheming, having shaken off the garments violently, he said to them, Your blood upon your head; I clean: from now will I go to the nations.

Acts 26:20

But to them in Damascus first, and Jerusalem, and all the country of Judea, and to the nations, announcing to change the mind, and to turn back to God, doing works worthy of change of mind.

Acts 28:25-28

And being at variance with one another, they were let go, Paul having said one word, That well spake the Holy Spirit by Esaias the prophet to our fathers,

Romans 11:11-15

I say then, Did they stumble that they might fall? It may not be: but by their fall salvation to the nations, to make them jealous.

1 Peter 2:25

For ye were as sheep going astray; but now have turned about to the Shepherd and inspector of your souls.