'Sent' in the Bible

and sent them to Bethlehem. He told them, "As you go, search carefully for the child. When you find him, tell me so that I, too, may go and worship him."

These were the Twelve whom Jesus sent out after he had given them these instructions: "Don't turn on to the road that leads to the unbelievers, and don't enter Samaritan towns.

"The one who receives you receives me, and the one who receives me receives the one who sent me.

Now when John heard in prison about the activities of the Messiah, he sent a message by his disciples

So he sent word and had John beheaded in prison.

Jesus immediately had the disciples get into a boat and cross to the other side ahead of him, while he sent the crowds away.

When the men of that place recognized Jesus, they sent word throughout that region and brought him everyone who was sick.

But he replied, "I was sent only to the lost sheep of the nation of Israel."

After he sent the crowds away, he got into a boat and went to the region of Magadan.

Then his master sent for him and told him, "You evil servant! I canceled that entire debt for you because you begged me.

After agreeing to pay the workers one denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard.

When they came near Jerusalem and had reached Bethphage on the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples on ahead and

When harvest time approached, he sent his servants to the tenant farmers to collect his produce.

Again, he sent other servants to them, a greater number than the first, but the tenant farmers treated them the same way.

Finally, he sent his son to them, thinking, "They will respect my son.'

He sent his servants to call those who had been invited to the wedding, but they refused to come.

So he sent other servants after saying, "Tell those who have been invited, "Look! I've prepared my dinner. My oxen and fattened calves have been slaughtered. Everything is ready. Come to the wedding!"'

Then the king became outraged. He sent his troops, and they destroyed those murderers and burned their city.

They sent their disciples to him along with the Herodians. They said, "Teacher, we know that you are sincere and that you teach the way of God truthfully. You don't favor any individual, because you pay no attention to external appearance.

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones to death those who have been sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!

While he was sitting on the judge's seat, his wife sent him a message that said, "Have nothing to do with that righteous man, because today I have suffered terribly due to a dream I had about him."

He appointed the Twelve, whom he called apostles, to accompany him, to be sent out to preach,

Then his mother and his brothers arrived. Milling around outside, they sent for him, continuously summoning him.

because Herod himself had sent men who arrested John, bound him with chains, and put him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, whom Herod had married.

So without delay the king sent a soldier and ordered him to bring John's head. The soldier went and beheaded him in prison.

Jesus immediately had his disciples get into a boat and cross to Bethsaida ahead of him, while he sent the crowd away.

Now about 4,000 men were there. Then he sent them on their way.

Then Jesus sent him home, saying, "Don't go into the village or tell anyone in the village."

"Whoever welcomes a child like this in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes not me but the one who sent me."

When they came near Jerusalem, at Bethphage and Bethany, near the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of his disciples on ahead

At the right time, he sent a servant to the farmers to collect from them a share of the produce from the vineyard.

But the farmers grabbed the servant, beat him, and sent him back empty-handed.

Again, the man sent another servant to them. They beat the servant over the head and treated him shamefully.

Then the man sent another, and that one they killed. So it was with many other servants. Some of these they beat, and others they killed.

He still had one more person to send, a son whom he loved. Finally, he sent him to them, saying, "They will respect my son.'

Then they sent some Pharisees and some Herodians to him, intending to trap him in what he said.

He sent two of his disciples, telling them, "Go into the city, and you will meet a man carrying a jug of water. Follow him.

The angel answered him, "I am Gabriel! I stand in the very presence of God. I have been sent to speak to you and to announce this good news to you.

Now in the sixth month of her pregnancy, the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a city in Galilee called Nazareth,

He filled hungry people with good things and sent rich people away with nothing.

"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me; he has anointed me to tell the good news to the poor. He has sent me to announce release to the prisoners and recovery of sight to the blind, to set oppressed people free,

Yet Elijah wasn't sent to a single one of those widows except to one at Zarephath in Sidon.

But he told them, "I have to proclaim the good news about the kingdom of God in other cities, because I was sent to do that also."

When the centurion heard about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders to him to ask him to come and save his servant's life.

So Jesus went with them. He was not far from the house when the centurion sent friends to tell Jesus, "Sir, stop troubling yourself, because I'm not worthy to have you come under my roof.

Then the men who had been sent returned to the house and found the servant in perfect health.

and sent them to the Lord to ask, "Are you the Coming One, or should we wait for someone else?"

When the men had come to Jesus, they said, "John the Baptist has sent us to you to ask, "Are you the Coming One, or should we wait for someone else?'"

Now the man from whom the demons had gone out kept begging Jesus to let him go with him. But Jesus sent him away, saying,

Then he sent them to proclaim the kingdom of God and to heal the sick.

Then he told them, "Whoever welcomes this little child in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me, because the one who is least among all of you is the one who is greatest."

So he sent messengers on ahead of him. On their way they went into a Samaritan village to get things ready for him.

The person who listens to you listens to me, and the person who rejects you rejects me. The person who rejects me rejects the one who sent me."

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones to death those who have been sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you people were unwilling!

But they kept silent. So he took hold of the man, healed him, and sent him away.

When it was time for the banquet, he sent his servant to tell those who were invited, "Come! Everything is now ready.'

So he went out to work for one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed pigs.

But the citizens of his country hated him and sent a delegation to follow him and to announce, "We don't want this man to rule over us!'

As he approached Bethphage and Bethany at the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples on ahead.

So those who were sent went off and found it as Jesus had told them.

At the right time he sent a servant to the farmers in order to get his share of the produce of the vineyard. But the farmers beat him and sent him back empty-handed.

He sent another servant, and they beat him, too, treated him shamefully, and sent him back empty-handed.

Then he sent a third, and they wounded him and threw him out, too.

So they watched him closely and sent spies who pretended to be honest men in order to trap him in what he would say. They wanted to hand him over to the jurisdiction of the governor,

So Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, "Go and make preparations for us to eat the Passover meal."

Then Jesus asked his disciples, "When I sent you out without a wallet, traveling bag, or sandals, you didn't lack anything, did you?" They replied, "Nothing at all."

When he learned with certainty that Jesus came from Herod's jurisdiction, he sent him off to Herod, who was in Jerusalem at that time.

Even Herod and his soldiers treated him with contempt and made fun of him. He put a magnificent robe on Jesus and sent him back to Pilate.

Neither does Herod, because he sent him back to us! Indeed, this man has done nothing to deserve death.

There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.

This was John's testimony when the Jewish leaders sent priests and descendants of Levi to him from Jerusalem to ask him, "Who are you?"

"Who are you?" they asked him. "We must give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?"

Now those men had been sent from the Pharisees.

I didn't recognize him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water told me, "The person on whom you see the Spirit descending and remaining is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.'

Because God sent the Son into the world, not to condemn the world, but that the world would be saved through him.

You yourselves are my witnesses that I said, "I am not the Messiah, but I have been sent ahead of him.'

The one whom God sent speaks the words of God, because God does not give the Spirit in limited measure to him.

Jesus told them, "My food is doing the will of the one who sent me and completing his work.

I have sent you to harvest what you have not worked for. Others have worked, and you have adopted their work as your own."

so that everyone may honor the Son as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.

"Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, whoever hears what I say and believes in the one who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged, but has passed from death to life.

I can do nothing on my own accord. I judge according to what I hear, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will but the will of the one who sent me."

You have sent messengers to John, and he has testified to the truth.

"But I have a greater testimony than John's, because the actions that the Father has given me to complete the very actions that I am doing testify on my behalf that the Father has sent me.

Moreover, the Father who sent me has himself testified on my behalf. You have never heard his voice or seen what he looks like,

nor do you have his word at work in you, because you do not believe in the one whom he sent.

Jesus answered them, "This is God's work: to believe in the one whom he has sent."

I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of the one who sent me.

And this is the will of the one who sent me, that I should not lose anything that he has given me, but should raise it to life on the last day.

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him to life on the last day.

Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will also live because of me.

Jesus replied to them, "My teaching is not mine but comes from the one who sent me.

The one who speaks on his own seeks his own praise. But the one who seeks the praise of him who sent him is genuine, and there's nothing false in him.

At this point Jesus, still teaching in the Temple, shouted, "So you know me and know where I've come from? I haven't come on my own accord. But the one who sent me is true, and he's the one you don't know.

I know him because I've come from him, and he sent me."

The Pharisees heard the crowd debating these things about him, so the high priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest Jesus.

Then Jesus said, "I'll be with you only a little while longer, and then I'm going back to the one who sent me.

Yet even if I should judge, my judgment would be valid, because it is not I alone who judges, but I and the one who sent me.

I'm testifying about myself, and the Father who sent me is testifying about me."

Jesus told them, "What have I been telling you all along? I have much to say about you and to condemn you for. But the one who sent me is truthful, and what I've heard from him I declare to the world."