5 Bible Verses about Sheep, Figurative

"I am sending you out like sheep surrounded by wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.

Go instead to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

Then Jesus said to them, "You will all fall away, for it is written, 'I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.'

When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them because they were bewildered and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.

"Which one of you, if he has a hundred sheep and loses one of them, would not leave the ninety-nine in the open pasture and go look for the one that is lost until he finds it?