'Sent' in the Bible

A man came, sent from God, whose name was John.

Now this was John's testimony when the Jewish leaders sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, "Who are you?"

Then they said to him, "Who are you? Tell us so that we can give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?"

(Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.)

And I did not recognize him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water said to me, 'The one on whom you see the Spirit descending and remaining -- this is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.'

You yourselves can testify that I said, 'I am not the Christ,' but rather, 'I have been sent before him.'

For the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for he does not give the Spirit sparingly.

Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of the one who sent me and to complete his work.

I sent you to reap what you did not work for; others have labored and you have entered into their labor."

so that all people will honor the Son just as they honor the Father. The one who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.

"I tell you the solemn truth, the one who hears my message and believes the one who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned, but has crossed over from death to life.

I can do nothing on my own initiative. Just as I hear, I judge, 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 to John, and he has testified to the truth.

"But I have a testimony greater than that from John. For the deeds that the Father has assigned me to complete -- the deeds I am now doing -- testify about me that the Father has sent me.

And the Father who sent me has himself testified about me. You people have never heard his voice nor seen his form at any time,

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

Jesus replied, "This is the deed God requires -- to believe in the one whom he sent."

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

Now this is the will of the one who sent me -- that I should not lose one person of every one he has given me, but raise them all up at the last day.

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

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

So Jesus replied, "My teaching is not from me, but from the one who sent me.

The person who speaks on his own authority desires to receive honor for himself; the one who desires the honor of the one who sent him is a man of integrity, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

Then Jesus, while teaching in the temple courts, cried out, "You both know me and know where I come from! And I have not come on my own initiative, but the one who sent me is true. You do not know him,

but I know him, because I have come from him and he sent me."

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

Then Jesus said, "I will be with you for only a little while longer, and then I am going to the one who sent me.

But if I judge, my evaluation is accurate, because I am not alone when I judge, but I and the Father who sent me do so together.

I testify about myself and the Father who sent me testifies about me."

I have many things to say and to judge about you, but the Father who sent me is truthful, and the things I have heard from him I speak to the world."

And the one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, because I always do those things that please him."

Jesus replied, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come from God and am now here. I have not come on my own initiative, but he sent me.

We must perform the deeds of the one who sent me as long as it is daytime. Night is coming when no one can work.

and said to him, "Go wash in the pool of Siloam" (which is translated "sent"). So the blind man went away and washed, and came back seeing.

do you say about the one whom the Father set apart and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God'?

So the sisters sent a message to Jesus, "Lord, look, the one you love is sick."

I knew that you always listen to me, but I said this for the sake of the crowd standing around here, that they may believe that you sent me."

But Jesus shouted out, "The one who believes in me does not believe in me, but in the one who sent me,

and the one who sees me sees the one who sent me.

For I have not spoken from my own authority, but the Father himself who sent me has commanded me what I should say and what I should speak.

I tell you the solemn truth, the slave is not greater than his master, nor is the one who is sent as a messenger greater than the one who sent him.

I tell you the solemn truth, whoever accepts the one I send accepts me, and whoever accepts me accepts the one who sent me."

The person who does not love me does not obey my words. And the word you hear is not mine, but the Father's who sent me.

But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me.

But now I am going to the one who sent me, and not one of you is asking me, 'Where are you going?'

Now this is eternal life -- that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you sent.

because I have given them the words you have given me. They accepted them and really understand that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me.

Just as you sent me into the world, so I sent them into the world.

that they will all be one, just as you, Father, are in me and I am in you. I pray that they will be in us, so that the world will believe that you sent me.

I in them and you in me -- that they may be completely one, so that the world will know that you sent me, and you have loved them just as you have loved me.

Righteous Father, even if the world does not know you, I know you, and these men know that you sent me.

Then Annas sent him, still tied up, to Caiaphas the high priest.

So Jesus said to them again, "Peace be with you. Just as the Father has sent me, I also send you."