THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW - Chapter 10 - Verse 6
Verse 6. But go rather to the lost sheep, etc. That is, to the Jews. He regarded them as wandering and lost, like sheep straying without a shepherd. They had been the chosen people of God; they had long looked for the Messiah; and it was proper that the gospel should be first offered to them.
{w} "go rather" Ac 13:46 {x} "lost sheep" Psalms 119:176; Is 53:6; Jeremiah 1:6,17; Ezekiel 34:5,6,8