Matthew 15:24 Cross References
Matthew 15:24
24: Then he said to the woman, "I was sent only to help the people of Israel--God's lost sheep--not the Gentiles."
Matthew 10:5
- Jesus sent the twelve disciples out with these instructions: "Don't go to the Gentiles or the Samaritans,
- but only to the people of Israel--God's lost sheep.
Romans 15:8
- Remember that Christ came as a servant to the Jews to show that God is true to the promises he made to their ancestors.
Jeremiah 50:6
- "My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds have led them astray and turned them loose in the mountains. They have lost their way and cannot remember how to get back to the fold.
- All who found them devoured them. Their enemies said, `We are allowed to attack them freely, for they have sinned against the LORD, their place of rest, the hope of their ancestors.'
Ezekiel 34:5
- So my sheep have been scattered without a shepherd. They are easy prey for any wild animal.
- They have wandered through the mountains and hills, across the face of the earth, yet no one has gone to search for them.
Acts 13:46
- Then Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly and declared, "It was necessary that this Good News from God be given first to you Jews. But since you have rejected it and judged yourselves unworthy of eternal life--well, we will offer it to Gentiles.
Luke 15:4
- "If you had one hundred sheep, and one of them strayed away and was lost in the wilderness, wouldn't you leave the ninety-nine others to go and search for the lost one until you found it?
- And then you would joyfully carry it home on your shoulders.
- When you arrived, you would call together your friends and neighbors to rejoice with you because your lost sheep was found.
Acts 3:25
- You are the children of those prophets, and you are included in the covenant God promised to your ancestors. For God said to Abraham, 'Through your descendants all the families on earth will be blessed.'
- When God raised up his servant, he sent him first to you people of Israel, to bless you by turning each of you back from your sinful ways."
Isaiah 53:6
- All of us have strayed away like sheep. We have left God's paths to follow our own. Yet the LORD laid on him the guilt and sins of us all.
Matthew 9:36
- He felt great pity for the crowds that came, because their problems were so great and they didn't know where to go for help. They were like sheep without a shepherd.
Ezekiel 34:16
- I will search for my lost ones who strayed away, and I will bring them safely home again. I will bind up the injured and strengthen the weak. But I will destroy those who are fat and powerful. I will feed them, yes--feed them justice!
Ezekiel 34:23
- And I will set one shepherd over them, even my servant David. He will feed them and be a shepherd to them.