6But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
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My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace.
My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill: yea, my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth, and none did search or seek after them.
For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-15)We have here the instructions that Christ gave to his disciples, when he gave them their commission. Whether this charge was given them in a continued discourse, or the several articles of it hinted to them at several times, is not material; in this he commanded them . Jacob’s blessing his sons, is called his commanding them, and with these commands Christ commanded a blessing. Observe, I. The peo…
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