Matthew 15:24 Cross References - Riverside

²⁴ He replied, "I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel."

³⁶ Seeing the crowds, he was touched with compassion for them, for they were torn and flung down like sheep that have no shepherd.

⁵ These twelve Jesus sent out and directed them: "Do not go into any way of the Gentiles. Do not enter into any city of the Samaritans. ⁶ But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

⁴ "What man of you, if he has a hundred sheep and has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after the lost one until he has found it? ⁵ And when he has found it he lays it on his shoulders with joy, ⁶ and when he comes home he calls together his friends and neighbors and says, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost!'

²⁵ You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant which God established with your fathers when he said to Abraham, 'In your descendants all the families of the earth will be blessed.' ²⁶ To you first God, when he raised up his servant, sent him, to bless you by turning each one of you from his wicked ways."

⁴⁶ Then Paul and Barnabas said with fearless plainness, "The message of God had to be spoken first to you. But since you thrust it away and do not judge yourselves worthy of life eternal — now, we turn to the Gentiles.

⁸ For I say that Christ became a servant of circumcision for the sake of God's truth, in order to confirm the promises given to the fathers