Matthew 15:24 Cross References - Living_Oracles

²⁴ He answering said, My mission is only to the lost sheep of the stock of Israel.

³⁶ But when he saw the multitudes, he had compassion upon them, because they were scattered and exposed, like a flock without a shepherd.

⁵ These twelve Jesus commissioned, instructing them, and saying: Go not away to the Gentiles, nor enter a Samaritan city; ⁶ but go directly to the lost sheep of the stock of Israel.

⁴ What man, amongst you, who has a hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the desert, to go after that which is lost, till he find it? ⁵ And having found it, does he not joyfully lay it on his shoulders, ⁶ and when he is come home, convene his friends and neighbors, saying to them, Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost?

²⁵ You are the children of the prophets, and of the institution which God instituted with our fathers, saying to Abraham, "And in your see shall all the families of the earth be blessed." ²⁶ To you, first, God, having raised up his Son, has sent him to bless you; in turning every one of you, from your iniquities.

⁴⁶ Then Paul and Barnabas, with great freedom of speech, said, It was necessary, that the word of God should first be spoken to you; but since you thrust it away from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life; behold, we turn to the Gentiles.

⁸ Now, I affirm that Jesus Christ became a minister of the circumcision on account of the truth of God, in order to confirm the promises made to the fathers;