Matthew 10:6 - Exposition

But go . On your daily journeying ( πορέεσθε , present). Rather . With conscious preference. To the lost sheep of the house of Israel . Thus also he describes his own mission ( Matthew 15:24 ). The words recall Jeremiah 50:6 ( Jeremiah 27:6 , LXX .), "My people hath been lost sheep." Observe that our Lord implies a special relation of Israel to God (for the house has its owner) which was lacking in the case of all other nations. Yet, their proper teachers having proved faithless, they were now as shepherdless as these ( Matthew 9:36 ). Lost. Notice here the basis of the parable related in Luke 15:4-7 ; cf. Matthew 18:12 , Matthew 18:13 ( Matthew 18:11 of the Received Text is a gloss), where the term "wandering" is not so strong (Bengel).