As it has been written in Isaiah the prophet, "Behold, I send My messenger before Thy face, who shall prepare Thy way;

And having strictly charged him, He straightway sent him away,

And He appointed twelve [whom He also named apostles], that they might be with Him, and that He might send them forth to preach,

And His mother and His brothers come; and, standing without, they sent to Him, calling Him.

And he was beseeching Him much, that He would not send them away out of the country.

And they besought Him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them."

And He calleth to Him the twelve, and began to send them forth by two and two, and was giving them authority over the unclean spirits;

send them away, that, having gone into the surrounding fields and villages, they may buy themselves something to eat."

and, if I send them away fasting to their home, they will faint in the way; and some of them are from afar."

And they were about four thousand; and He sent them away.

And He sent him away to his house, saying, "Do not even enter into the village."

"Whosoever receives one of such little children in My name, receives Me; and whosoever receives Me, receives not Me, but Him Who sent Me."

And, if any one say to you, 'Why do ye this?' say ye, 'The Lord hath need of him;' and straight-way he will send him back hither."

And, at the season, he sent to the husbandmen a servant, that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruits of the vineyard.

And, taking him, they beat him, and sent him away empty.

And again he sent to them another servant; and him they wounded in the head, and dishonored.

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

He had yet one, a beloved son; he sent him to them last, saying, 'They will pay deference to my son.'

And they send to Him some of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, that they may entrap Him in speech.

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