Matthew 10:6

Jesus Sends Out The Twelve Apostles

⁵ Jesus sent out these twelve, commanding them, saying, Do not go into the way of the nations, and do not enter into any city of the Samaritans. ⁶ But rather go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. ⁷ And as you go, proclaim, saying, The kingdom of Heaven is at hand.

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 Your servant; for I do not forget Your Commandments.

Isaiah 53:6

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned, each one to his own way; and Jehovah has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.

Acts 3:26

Having raised up His son Jesus, God sent Him to you first, to bless you in turning every one of you away from his iniquities.

Acts 13:46

But speaking boldly, Paul and Barnabas said, It was necessary for the Word of God to be spoken to you first. But since indeed you put it far from you and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the nations.

Jeremiah 50:17

Israel is a scattered sheep, driven away by lions. First the king of Assyria devoured him, and last this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon crunched his bones.

Ezekiel 34:6

My sheep wandered through all the mountains and on every high hill. Yea, My flock was scattered on all the face of the earth, and none searched nor sought for them.

Ezekiel 34:8

As I live, says the Lord Jehovah, surely because My flock became a prey, and My flock became food to every beast of the field, because there was no shepherd, nor did My shepherds search for My flock, but the shepherds fed themselves and did not feed My flock,

Ezekiel 34:16

I will seek the lost, and bring again those driven away, and will bind up the broken, and will strengthen the sick. But I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment.

Matthew 15:24-26

But He answered and said, I am not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

Matthew 18:10

Take heed that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I say to you that in Heaven their angels always behold the face of My Father in Heaven.

Luke 15:3-10

And He spoke this parable to them, saying,

Luke 24:47

and that repentance and remission of sins should be proclaimed in His name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

Acts 18:6

And they resisting and blaspheming, shaking his garment, he said to them, Your blood is on your own heads. I am pure from it. From now on I will go to the nations.

Acts 26:20

But to those first in Damascus, and Jerusalem, and to all the country of Judea, and to the nations, I made known the command to repent and to turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance

Acts 28:25-28

And disagreeing with one another, they were let go, Paul saying one word: Well did the Holy Spirit speak through Isaiah the prophet to our fathers,

Romans 11:11-15

I say then, Did they not stumble that they fall? Let it not be! But by their slipping away came salvation to the nations, to provoke them to jealousy.

1 Peter 2:25

For you were as sheep going astray, but now you are turned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.