Matthew 9:36

A Plentiful Harvest But Few Workers

³⁵ Jesus was going through all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every kind of disease and every kind of sickness. ³⁶ Seeing the people, He felt compassion for them, because they were distressed and dispirited like sheep without a shepherd. ³⁷ Then He *said to His disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few.

Moved with Compassion

Scattered Abroad

Sheep Not Having a Shepherd

Sheep that Have No Shepherd

Had Compassion On Them

Large Crowd

Large Crowds

Sheep Without A Shepherd

No

Mark 6:34

When Jesus went ashore, He saw a large crowd, and He felt compassion for them because they were like sheep without a shepherd; and He began to teach them many things.

Numbers 27:17

who will go out and come in before them, and who will lead them out and bring them in, so that the congregation of the Lord will not be like sheep which have no shepherd.”

Matthew 14:14

When He went ashore, He saw a large crowd, and felt compassion for them and healed their sick.

Zechariah 10:2

For the teraphim speak iniquity,
And the diviners see lying visions
And tell false dreams;
They comfort in vain.
Therefore the people wander like sheep,
They are afflicted, because there is no shepherd.

1 Kings 22:17

So he said,
“I saw all Israel
Scattered on the mountains,
Like sheep which have no shepherd.
And the Lord said, ‘These have no master.
Let each of them return to his house in peace.’”

Matthew 15:32

And Jesus called His disciples to Him, and said, “I feel compassion for the people, because they have remained with Me now three days and have nothing to eat; and I do not want to send them away hungry, for they might faint on the way.”

2 Chronicles 18:16

So he said,
“I saw all Israel
Scattered on the mountains,
Like sheep which have no shepherd;
And the Lord said,
‘These have no master.
Let each of them return to his house in peace.’”

Isaiah 56:9-11

All you beasts of the field,
All you beasts in the forest,
Come to eat.

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.

Ezekiel 34:3-6

You eat the fat and clothe yourselves with the wool, you slaughter the fat sheep without feeding the flock.

Zechariah 11:16

For behold, I am going to raise up a shepherd in the land who will not care for the perishing, seek the scattered, heal the broken, or sustain the one standing, but will devour the flesh of the fat sheep and tear off their hoofs.

Zechariah 13:7-8

“Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd,
And against the man, My Associate,”
Declares the Lord of hosts.
“Strike the Shepherd that the sheep may be scattered;
And I will turn My hand against the little ones.

Matthew 10:6

but rather go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

Matthew 15:24

But He answered and said, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”

Hebrews 4:15

For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin.

Hebrews 5:2

he can deal gently with the ignorant and misguided, since he himself also is beset with weakness;