'Sheep' in the Bible

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

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

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

And He said to them, “What man is there among you who has a sheep, and if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will he not take hold of it and lift it out?

How much more valuable then is a man than a sheep! So then, it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.”

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

“What do you think? If any man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go and search for the one that is straying?

All the nations will be gathered before Him; and He will separate them from one another, as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats;

and He will put the sheep on His right, and the goats on the left.

Then Jesus *said to them, “You will all fall away because of Me this night, for it is written, ‘I will strike down the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered.’