Matthew 15:24 BSB — MannaFest

Matthew 15:24

He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”

BSB

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ASV

But he answered and said, I was not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

KJV

But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

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Commentary

3 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Matthew (420)

(Verse 24.) But he answered and said: I am not sent but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. Not that he was not sent also to the Gentiles, but that he was first sent to Israel, so that when they did not receive the Gospel, the migration to the Gentiles might be justified. And he significantly said, to the lost sheep of the house of Israel, so that from this passage we may also understand one wayward sheep from another parable.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

But he answered, and said,.... To his disciples, who knew how limited their commission was, that they were not to go into the way of the Gentiles, not to preach to them, nor perform miracles among them; and therefore could not reasonably expect that either the woman, or they, on her behalf, should succeed in this matter.

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

A woman of Canaan - Canaan was also called Syrophenicia, as lying between Syria properly so called, and Phenicia, by the sea side. Cried to him - From afar, Thou Son of David - So she had some knowledge of the promised Messiah. He answered her not a word - He sometimes tries our faith in like manner.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

I am not sent but unto the lost sheep - By the Divine appointment, I am come to preach the Gospel to the Jews only. There are certain preachers who should learn a lesson of important instruction from this part of our Lord’s conduct. As soon as they hear of a lost sheep being found by other ministers, they give all diligence to get that one into their fold: but display little earnestness in seeking in the wilderness for those that are lost.

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 2481: “Faith Victorious” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1896)

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Original language & word study

15 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Ὁ	Ho	<the>	G3588 →
δὲ	de	And	G1161 →
ἀποκριθεὶς	apokritheis	answering	G611 →
εἶπεν·	eipen	He said;	G2036 →
οὐκ	ouk	Not	G3756 →
ἀπεστάλην	apestalēn	I was sent	G649 →
εἰ	ei	only	G1487 →
μὴ	mē	except	G3361 →
εἰς	eis	to	G1519 →
τὰ	ta	the	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.

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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
Romans 15:8
For I tell you that Christ has become a servant of the circumcised on behalf of God’s truth, to confirm the promises made to the patriarchs,
leads to
- Galatians 4:4–5
  But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
- 2 Corinthians 1:20
  For all the promises of God are “Yes” in Christ. And so through Him, our “Amen” is spoken to the glory of God.
- John 1:11
  He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him.
- Acts 3:25–26
  And you are sons of the prophets and of the covenant God made with your fathers when He said to Abraham, ‘Through your offspring all the families of the earth will be blessed.’
Through
Acts 13:46
Then Paul and Barnabas answered them boldly: “It was necessary to speak the word of God to you first. But since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we…
leads to
- Acts 28:28
  Be advised, therefore, that God’s salvation has been sent to the Gentiles, and they will listen!”
- Matthew 21:43
  Therefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit.
- Acts 18:5–6
  And when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul devoted himself fully to the word, testifying to the Jews that Jesus is the Christ.
- Acts 26:20
  First to those in Damascus and Jerusalem, then to everyone in the region of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, I declared that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds worthy of…

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