Matthew 10:6

Jesus Sends Out The Twelve Apostles

⁵ Jesus sent the twelve. He gave them orders not to go to the people of the nations and not to go to the Samaritans. ⁶ but rather go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. ⁷ Preach as you go! Announce the kingdom of heaven, for it is near.

House of Israel

Lost Sheep

People of Israel

Israel

Jeremiah 50:6

My people have become lost sheep. Their shepherds have led them astray. They have made them turn aside on the mountains. They have gone along from mountain to hill and have forgotten their resting place.

Psalm 119:176

I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Look for your servant for I have not forgotten your commandments.

Isaiah 53:6

We are all like sheep. We have gone astray! Each of us has turned to his own way. Jehovah has caused the iniquity (sin) of all of us to be laid on him.

Acts 3:26

God raised up his servant and sent him to you first. He sent him to bless you and to turn every one of you from your wicked ways.

Acts 13:46

Paul and Barnabas became very bold, and said: It was necessary that the Word of God should first be spoken to you. But seeing you reject it you judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life! Therefore we turn to the people of the nations.

Jeremiah 50:17

The people of Israel are like scattered sheep that lions have chased. The first to devour them was the king of Assyria. The last to gnaw at their bones was King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon.

Ezekiel 34:6

My sheep wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill. They were scattered throughout the entire earth. No one searched or looked for them.

Ezekiel 34:8

As I am alive, declares the Lord Jehovah, because there is no shepherd, my sheep have become prey. My sheep have become food for wild animals. My shepherds have not searched for my sheep. They have taken care of only themselves, not my sheep.'

Ezekiel 34:16

I will seek the lost. I will bring back the scattered. I will bind up the broken and strengthen the sick. The fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them with judgment.

Matthew 15:24-26

He answered: I was sent only to the wandering sheep of the house of Israel.

Matthew 18:10

Do not treat these little ones badly. I tell you that angels represent them in the presence of my Father in heaven.

Luke 15:3-10

Then Jesus told them an illustration:

Luke 24:47

Repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem.

Acts 18:6

When they opposed Paul and treated him abusively he shook out his garment and said to them: Your blood is upon your own heads. I am clean. From now on I will go to the people of the nations.

Acts 26:20

I preached first to Damascus, and to Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judea, and then to the people of the nations, that they should repent and turn to God, and prove their repentance by deeds.

Acts 28:25-28

So they left, disagreeing among themselves, after Paul had said this one thing: How well the Holy Spirit spoke through the prophet Isaiah to your ancestors!

Romans 11:11-15

I ask: Did they stumble and fall? Certainly not! But rather through their fall into sin salvation has come to the nations. This will provoke them to jealousy.

1 Peter 2:25

For you were straying like sheep. But now you have returned to your shepherd and overseer.