As it is written in the prophet Isaiah, "Here I send my messenger on before you; He will prepare your way;

He appointed twelve of them, whom he called apostles, to be with him and to be sent out to preach,

And his mother and his brothers came. And they stood outside the house and sent word in to him to come outside to them.

And they begged him earnestly not to send them out of that country.

And they implored him, "Send us among the pigs, let us go into them."

And he called the Twelve to him and sent them off two by two, giving them power over the foul spirits.

For it was Herod who had sent and seized John and bound him and put him in prison, on account of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, because Herod had married her.

and he immediately sent one of his guard with orders to get John's head.

Send the people off to the farms and villages around to buy themselves something to eat."

And if I send them home hungry they will give out on the way, for some of them come from a distance."

And he sent him home and said to him, "Do not even go into the village."

"Whoever welcomes one child like this on my account is welcoming me, and whoever welcomes me, welcomes not me but him who has sent me."

When they were getting near Jerusalem, and had come to Bethphage and Bethany near the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of his disciples on ahead,

And if anybody says to you, 'Why are you doing that?' say, 'The Master needs it, and will send it back here directly.' "

At the proper time he sent a slave to the tenants to get from them a share of the vintage.

And they took him and beat him and sent him back empty-handed.

And again he sent another slave to them. And they beat him over the head and treated him shamefully.

And he sent another; and him they killed; and so with many others, some they beat and some they killed.

He still had one left to send, a dearly loved son. He sent him to them last of all, thinking, 'They will respect my son.'

They sent some Pharisees and Herodians to him to entrap him in argument.

A poor widow came up and dropped in two little copper coins which make a cent.

and then he will send out the angels and gather his chosen people from the four winds, from one end of the world to the other.

So he sent away two of his disciples, saying to them, "Go into the city, and you will meet a man carrying a pitcher of water. Follow him,

Pilate wondered whether he was dead already, and he sent for the captain and asked whether he was dead yet,

And they fled out of the tomb, for they were all trembling and bewildered, and they said nothing about it to anyone, for they were afraid to do so. AN ANCIENT APPENDIX But they reported briefly to Peter and his companions all they had been told. And afterward Jesus himself sent out by them from the east to the west the sacred and incorruptible message of eternal salvation. \b ANOTHER ANCIENT APPENDIX