poor
The "poor of the flock": that is, the "remnant according to the election of grace" (Romans 11:5) those Jews who did not wait for the manifestation of Christ in glory, but believed on Him at His first coming, and since. Of them it is said that they "waited upon Me," and "knew." Neither the Gentiles nor the Gentile church, corporately, are in view: only the believers out of Israel during this age. The church, corporately, is not in Old Testament prophecy (Ephesians 3:8-10).