As it is written and forever remains in the [writings of the] prophet Isaiah:

“Behold, I send My messenger ahead of You,
Who will prepare Your way—

And Jesus [deeply moved] admonished him sternly and sent him away immediately,

And He appointed twelve [disciples], so that they would be with Him [for instruction] and so that He could send them out to preach [the gospel as apostles—that is, as His special messengers, personally chosen representatives],

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

And he began begging Him repeatedly not to send them out of the region.

And the demons begged Him, saying, “Send us to the pigs so that we may go into them!”

And He called the twelve [disciples] and began to send them out [as His special messengers] two by two, and gave them authority and power over the unclean spirits.

For Herod himself had sent [guards] and had John arrested and shackled in prison because of Herodias, the wife of his [half-] brother Philip, because he (Herod) had married her.

So the king immediately sent for an executioner and commanded him to bring back John’s head. And he went and had John beheaded in the prison,

The apostles [who had been sent out on a mission] gathered together with Jesus and told Him everything that they had done and taught.

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

If I send them away to their homes hungry, they will faint [from exhaustion] on the road; because some of them have come a long way.”

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

“Whoever receives and welcomes one child such as this in My name receives Me; and whoever receives Me receives not [only] Me, but Him who sent Me.”

When they were nearing Jerusalem, at Bethphage and Bethany near the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of His disciples,

If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ say, ‘The Lord needs it’; and immediately he will send it here.”

When the harvest season came he sent a servant to the tenants, in order to collect from them some of the fruit of the vineyard.

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

Again he sent them another servant, and they [threw stones and] wounded him in the head, and treated him disgracefully.

And he sent another, and that one they killed; then many others—some they beat and some they killed.

He still had one man left 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 Jesus in order to trap Him into making a statement [that they could use against Him].

A poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which amount to a mite.

And then He will send out the angels, and will gather together His elect [those He has chosen for Himself] from the four winds, from the farthest end of the earth to the farthest end of heaven.

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