Matthew 15:24

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Summary

Matthew 15:24

But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

I am not

General references

Ezekiel 3:4

Matthew 18:11

Luke 19:10

Bible References

I am not

But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd.

These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not:

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

My people hath 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 restingplace.

And they were scattered, because there is no shepherd: and they became meat to all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered.

What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?

Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.

Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.

Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers:

General references

And he said unto me, Son of man, go, get thee unto the house of Israel, and speak with my words unto them.

For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost.

For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.