As it is written in the prophets, "Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee:"

and He appointed twelve to be with Him, and that He might send them forth to preach the gospel,

So his brethren and his mother came, and standing without sent to Him to call Him to them:

And he earnestly intreated Him, that He would not send them out of that country.

and all the demons intreated Him, saying, Send us to the swine, that we may enter into them.

And He calleth unto Him the twelve, and sent them forth two and two, and gave them power over impure spirits;

For Herod had sent and seized John, and bound him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, because he had married her:

And the king was exceedingly grieved, but on account of his oath, and those who were at table with him, he would not refuse her: but immediately sent one of his guard,

and when He had sent them away, He retired into a mountain to pray.

and if I send them away fasting to their own home, they will faint by the way; for some of them are come from far.

And He sent him away to his house, and said, Neither go into the town, nor tell any one in the town.

Whoever shall receive one of these little children in my name, receiveth me; and whosoever receiveth me, receiveth not me only, but Him that sent me.

And if any one say to you, Why do ye so? tell him, that the Lord hath need of it, and he will immediately send it hither.

And at the season he sent a servant to the husbandmen, that he might receive from them of the fruit of the vineyard:

and they took him and beat him, and sent him away empty.

And again he sent unto them another servant; and at him they threw stones, and wounded him on the head, and sent him away shamefully used.

And again, he sent another; and him they killed: and many others, beating some, and killing others.

Having yet therefore one Son, his beloved, he sent him also at last unto them, saying, they will reverence my Son.

And they send to Him some of the pharisees, and of the Herodians to insnare Him in his discourse:

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