Matthew 15:24

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

Isaiah 53:6

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have all turned to our own way, and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Ezekiel 34:16

I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strays, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, but the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them with justice.

Ezekiel 34:23

I will set up over them one shepherd, my servant David, and he shall feed them; he shall feed them and be their shepherd.

Matthew 15:23

But he did not answer her at all. And his disciples came and urged him, saying, “Send her away, for she keeps shouting after us.”

Matthew 9:36

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

Acts 13:46

Then both Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, saying, “It was necessary that the word of God should be spoken first to you. Since you reject it and judge yourselves to be unworthy of eternal life, we are now turning to the gentiles.

Romans 15:8

For I tell you that Christ has become a servant of the circumcised on behalf of the truth of God in order that he might confirm the promises given to the ancestors