My people have 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 resting-place.
And they were scattered, because there was no shepherd; and they became food to all the beasts of the field, and were scattered.
But he answered and said, I was not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
And Paul and Barnabas spake out boldly, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first be spoken to you. Seeing ye thrust it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.