Matthew 10:6

Jesus Sends Out The Twelve Apostles

⁵ These twelve Jesus sent forth, having charged them, saying, "Go not into any way of the gentiles, and enter not into a city of the Samaritans; ⁶  but go ye rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. ⁷ And, while going, preach, saying, 'The Kingdom of Heaven has come nigh.'

House of Israel

Lost Sheep

People of Israel

Israel

Acts 3:26

To you first, God, having raised up His Child, sent Him forth, blessing you, in turning away every one of you from your iniquities."

Acts 13:46

Speaking boldly, both Paul and Barnabas said, "It was necessary that the word of God should first be spoken to you. Inasmuch as ye thrust it away from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the gentiles;

Matthew 15:24-26

But He, answering, said, "I was not sent, except to the lost sheep 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 angels in Heaven do always behold the face of My Father Who is in Heaven.

Luke 15:3-10

And He spake to them this parable, saying,

Luke 24:47

and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem.

Acts 18:6

But, when they resisted, and blasphemed, he, shaking out his garments, said to them, "Your blood be upon your own head! I am pure! Henceforth I will go to the gentiles."

Acts 26:20

but I declared both to those in Damascus first, and in Jerusalem, and through all the region of Judea, and to the gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.

Acts 28:25-28

And, disagreeing among themselves, they were departing, when Paul uttered one declaration, "Well did the Holy Spirit speak through Isaiah, the prophet, to your fathers,

Romans 11:11-15

I Say, then, did they stumble, that they might fall? It could not be! But by their trespass salvation has come to the gentiles to provoke them to rivalry.

1 Peter 2:25

For, as sheep, ye were going astray; but now ye returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.