Matthew 10:6 BSB — MannaFest

Matthew 10:6

Go rather to the lost sheep of Israel.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

KJV

But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

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Commentary

4 voices

Hilary of Poitiers

Catena Aurea by Aquinas (367)

The promulgation of the Law deserved also the first preaching of the Gospel; and Israel was to have less excuse for its crime, as it had experienced more care in being warned. Though they are here called sheep, yet they raged against Christ with the tongues and throats of wolves and vipers.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. To whom he himself was sent, Mat 15:

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

But go rather to the lost sheep, etc. - The Jewish Church was the ancient fold of God; but the sheep had wandered from their Shepherd, and were lost. Our blessed Lord sends these under-shepherds to seek, find, and bring them back to the Shepherd and Overseer of their souls.

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Matthew (1856)

This chapter is one of peculiar solemnity. Here is the record of the first ordination which ever took place in the Church of Christ. The Lord Jesus chooses and sends forth the twelve apostles. Here is an account of the first charge ever delivered to newly ordained Christian ministers. The Lord Jesus himself delivers it. Never was there so important an ordination! Never was there so solemn a charge! There are three lessons which stand out prominently on the face of the first fifteen verses of this chapter. Let us take them in order.

Voices on this verse

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
πορεύεσθε	poreuesthe	do go	G4198 →
δὲ	de	however	G1161 →
μᾶλλον	mallon	rather	G3123 →
πρὸς	pros	to	G4314 →
τὰ	ta	those	G3588 →
πρόβατα	probata	sheep	G4263 →
τὰ	ta	the	G3588 →
ἀπολωλότα	apolōlota	already perishing	G622 →
οἴκου	oikou	of [the] house	G3624 →
Ἰσραήλ.¶	Israēl	of Israel.	G2474 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
1 Peter 2:25
For “you were like sheep going astray,” but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
leads to
- Isaiah 53:6
  We all like sheep have gone astray, each one has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid upon Him the iniquity of us all.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Ezekiel 34:6
  My flock went astray on all the mountains and every high hill. They were scattered over the face of all the earth, with no one to search for them or seek them out.’
- Luke 15:4–6
  “What man among you, if he has a hundred sheep and loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the pasture and go after the one that is lost, until he finds…
- Acts 20:28
  Keep watch over yourselves and the entire flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which He purchased with His own blood.
- John 10:11–16
  I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.
Through
Isaiah 53:6
We all like sheep have gone astray, each one has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid upon Him the iniquity of us all.
leads to
- 1 Peter 2:25
  For “you were like sheep going astray,” but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Psalms 119:176
  I have strayed like a lost sheep; seek Your servant, for I have not forgotten Your commandments.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- 1 Peter 3:18
  For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit,