As it is written in Isaiah the prophet:
“Behold, I send My messenger ahead of You,
Who will prepare Your way;

And He sternly warned him and immediately sent him away,

And He appointed twelve, so that they would be with Him and that He could send them out to preach,

Then His mother and His brothers *arrived, and standing outside they sent word to Him and called Him.

And he began to implore Him earnestly not to send them out of the country.

The demons implored Him, saying, “Send us into the swine so that we may enter them.”

And He *summoned the twelve and began to send them out in pairs, and gave them authority over the unclean spirits;

For Herod himself had sent and had John arrested and bound in prison on account of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip, because he had married her.

Immediately the king sent an executioner and commanded him to bring back his head. And he went and had him beheaded in the prison,

send them away so that they may go into the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves something to eat.”

If I send them away hungry to their homes, they will faint on the way; and some of them have come from a great distance.”

About four thousand were there; and He sent them away.

And He sent him to his home, saying, “Do not even enter the village.”

“Whoever receives one child like this in My name receives Me; and whoever receives Me does not receive Me, but Him who sent Me.”

They said, “Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of divorce and send her away.”

As they *approached Jerusalem, at Bethphage and Bethany, near the Mount of Olives, He *sent two of His disciples,

If anyone says to you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ you say, ‘The Lord has need of it’; and immediately he will send it back here.”

At the harvest time he sent a slave to the vine-growers, in order to receive some of the produce of the vineyard from the vine-growers.

They took him, and beat him and sent him away empty-handed.

Again he sent them another slave, and they wounded him in the head, and treated him shamefully.

And he sent another, and that one they killed; and so with many others, beating some and killing others.

He had one more to send, a beloved son; he sent him last of all to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’

Then they *sent some of the Pharisees and Herodians to Him in order to trap Him in a statement.

And then He will send forth the angels, and will gather together His elect from the four winds, from the farthest end of the earth to the farthest end of heaven.

And He *sent two of His disciples and *said to them, “Go into the city, and a man will meet you carrying a pitcher of water; follow him;

And they went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them, and confirmed the word by the signs that followed.][And they promptly reported all these instructions to Peter and his companions. And after that, Jesus Himself sent out through them from east to west the sacred and imperishable proclamation of eternal salvation.]