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

When he saw the large crowds of people, he was moved with compassion for them. He knew they were distressed and scattered like sheep not having a shepherd.

Jesus sent the twelve. He gave them orders not to go to the people of the nations and not to go to the Samaritans.

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.

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.

They were scattered because there was no shepherd. They became food for every wild animal at the time they were scattered.

If you have a hundred sheep and lose one of them, what do you do? You leave the other ninety-nine sheep in the pasture and go looking for the one you lost until you find it.

You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant that God made with our fathers. He said to Abraham: 'All the families of the earth will be blessed in your seed.'

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.

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

General references

He then said to me: Son of man, go to the people of Israel and speak my words to them.

(omitted, text not found in early manuscripts)

The Son of man came to seek and to save that which was lost.