KJV King James Version
But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
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Matthew 15:24
But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”
WEB World English Bible
But he answered, “I wasn’t sent to anyone but the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”
ASV American Standard Version
But he answered and said, I was not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and he answering said, ‘I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.’
Surrounding context — Matthew 15
21 Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon.
22 And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, [thou] Son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil.
23 But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us.
24 But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
25 Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me.
26 But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children’s bread, and to cast [it] to dogs.
27 And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
ὉG3588 · hothe/this/whoδὲG1161 · dethenἀποκριθεὶςG611 · apokrinōto answerεἶπεν·G2036 · eiponto sayοὐκG3756 · ounoἀπεστάληνG649 · apostellōto sendεἰG1487 · eiifμὴG3361 · mēnotεἰςG1519 · eistowardτὰG3588 · hothe/this/whoπρόβαταG4263 · probatonsheepτὰG3588 · hothe/this/whoἀπολωλόταG622 · apolluōto destroyοἴκουG3624 · oikoshouse: homeἸσραήλ.¶G2474 · IsraēlIsrael
Cross-references
Matthew 10:5-6These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into [any] city of the Samaritans enter ye not:Romans 15:8Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises [made] unto the fathers:Acts 13:46Then 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.Jeremiah 50:6-7My 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.Ezekiel 34:5-6And they were scattered, because [there is] no shepherd: and they became meat to all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered.Acts 3:25-26Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.Ezekiel 34:16I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up [that which was] broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment.Luke 15:4-6What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?Ezekiel 34:23And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, [even] my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.Isaiah 53:6All 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.Matthew 9:36But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd.
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