Sheep In The New Testament

Matthew 7:15 A Tree and Its Fruit “Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves.

Matthew 9:36 Seeing the crowds, He felt compassion for them, because they were distressed and downcast, like sheep without a shepherd.

Matthew 10:6 but rather go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

Matthew 10:16 A Hard Road Ahead of Them “Behold, I am sending you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; so be as wary as serpents, and as innocent as doves.

Matthew 12:11 But He said to them, “What man is there among you who has a sheep, and if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will he not take hold of it and lift it out?

Matthew 12:12 How much more valuable then is a person than a sheep! So then, it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.”

Matthew 15:24 But He answered and said, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”

Matthew 18:12 Ninety-nine Plus One “What do you think? If any man has a hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains, and go and search for the one that is lost?

Matthew 25:32 And all the nations will be gathered before Him; and He will separate them from one another, just as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats;

Matthew 25:33 and He will put the sheep on His right, but the goats on the left.

Matthew 26:31 Then Jesus *said to them, “You will all fall away because of Me this night, for it is written: ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’

Mark 6:34 When Jesus went ashore, He saw a large crowd, and He felt compassion for them because they were like sheep without a shepherd; and He began to teach them many things.

Mark 14:27 And Jesus *said to them, “You will all fall away, because it is written: ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.’

Luke 15:1 The Lost Sheep Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming near Jesus to listen to Him.

Luke 15:4 “What man among you, if he has a hundred sheep and has lost one of them, does not leave the other ninety-nine in the open pasture and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it?

Luke 15:6 And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, because I have found my sheep that was lost!’

Luke 17:7 “Now which of you, having a slave plowing or tending sheep, will say to him after he comes in from the field, ‘Come immediately and recline at the table to eat’?

John 2:14 And within the temple grounds He found those who were selling oxen, sheep, and doves, and the money changers seated at their tables.

John 2:15 And He made a whip of cords, and drove them all out of the temple area, with the sheep and the oxen; and He poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables;

John 5:2 Now in Jerusalem, by the Sheep Gate, there is a pool which in Hebrew is called Bethesda, having five porticoes.

John 10:1 Parable of the Good Shepherd “Truly, truly I say to you, the one who does not enter by the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbs up some other way, he is a thief and a robber.

John 10:2 But the one who enters by the door is a shepherd of the sheep.

John 10:3 To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep listen to his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

John 10:4 When he puts all his own sheep outside, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they know his voice.

John 10:7 So Jesus said to them again, “Truly, truly I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.

John 10:8 All those who came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.

John 10:11 “I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.

John 10:12 He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who is not the owner of the sheep, sees the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf snatches them and scatters the flock.

John 10:13 He flees because he is a hired hand and does not care about the sheep.

John 10:15 just as the Father knows Me and I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep.