Did Jesus Redeem Mankind? — Page 217
? that the daughter of a woman was sick. (It 210 that appears people in those days were generally under the impression that devils made men sick and that if the devils were cast out, the patient recovered). She had heard that the Messiah cast out devils. Once she saw the Messiah going somewhere and ran after him shouting and calling him the holy one of God, that he might come and cast out the devil from her daughter. But the Messiah would not pay her any heed, for, the woman was of the Gentiles. She nevertheless, continued crying after him and begging of him to save her child from the devil. When the disciples saw the woman thus crying after him, they besought him saying the woman was coming after him crying from a long distance begging that he cast the devil out of her daughter. The Messiah thereupon said, “I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel. " (Matthew 15:24) The Messiah thereby meant that his principal mission was to preach to the ten tribes of the house of Israel that had been lost and to re-establish them in their faith. It appears that through revelation the prophets had learnt that these tribes had forgotten their own faith through contact with foreign race and were no longer observing the Mosaic law and God had willed that they be reclaimed to their own faith. The term 'lost sheep' connotes that they were not only apparently gone away