5 Bible Verses about Sheep, Figurative

“Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; so be shrewd as serpents and innocent as doves.

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

And Jesus *said to them, “You will all fall away, because it is written, ‘I will strike down the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered.’

Seeing the people, He felt compassion for them, because they were distressed and dispirited like sheep without a shepherd.

“What man among you, if he has a hundred sheep and has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open pasture and go after the one which is lost until he finds it?