The angel replied, "I am Gabriel, I stand before God; I have been sent to speak to you and to tell you this good news.

In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazaret,

Why, as soon as the sound of your salutation reached my ears, the babe leapt for joy within my womb.

he has satisfied the hungry with good things and sent the rich away empty.

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me: for he has consecrated me to preach the gospel to the poor, he has sent me to proclaim release for captives and recovery of sight for the blind, to set free the oppressed,

yet Elijah was not sent to any of these, but only to a widow woman at Zarephath in Sidon.

He answered them, "I must preach the glad news of the Reign of God to the other towns as well, for that is what I was sent to do."

No sound tree bears rotten fruit, nor again does a rotten tree bear sound fruit:

so, when the captain heard about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders to him, asking him to come and make his servant well.

So Jesus went with them. But he was not far from the house when the captain sent some friends to tell him, "Do not trouble yourself, sir, I am not fit to have you under my roof,

So John summoned two of his disciples and sent them to ask the Lord, "Are you the Coming One? Or are we to look out for someone else?"

When the men reached Jesus they said, "John the Baptist has sent us to you to ask if you are the Coming One or if we are to look out for someone else?"

This is he of whom it is written, Here I send my messenger before your face, to prepare the way for you.

some other seed fell on sound soil, and springing up bore a crop, a hundredfold." When he said this he called out, "He who has an ear, let him listen to this."

As for the seed in the good soil, that means those who hear and hold fast the word in a good and sound heart and so bear fruit stedfastly.

The man whom the daemons had left begged that he might accompany him. Jesus, however, sent him away, saying,

He sent them out to preach the Reign of God and to cure the sick.

Now as the day began to decline the twelve came up to him and said, "Send the crowd off to lodge in the villages and farms around and get provisions there, for here we are in a desert place."

then he said to them, "Whoever receives this little child in my name receives me, and whoever receives me receives him who sent me. For it is the lowliest of you all who is great."

He sent messengers in front of him. They went and entered a Samaritan village to make preparations for him,

He said to them, "The harvest is rich, but the labourers are few; so pray the Lord of the harvest to send labourers to gather his harvest.

He who listens to you listens to me, he who rejects you rejects me, and he who rejects me rejects him who sent me."

Your eye is the lamp of the body: when your eye is sound, then the whole of your body has light, but if your eye is diseased, then your body is darkened.

This is why the Wisdom of God said, 'I will send them prophets and apostles, some they will kill and some they will persecute';

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, slaying the prophets and stoning those who have been sent to you! How often I would fain have gathered your children as a fowl gathers her brood under her wings! But you would not have it!

They held their peace. Then Jesus took hold of the man and cured him and sent him off.

At the hour for supper he sent his servant to tell the guests, 'Come, things are all ready.'

If he cannot, when the other is still at a distance he will send an embassy to do homage to him.

so he went and attached himself to a citizen of that land, who sent him to his fields to feed swine.

The servant told him, 'Your brother has arrived, and your father has killed the fatted calf because he has got him back safe and sound.'

so he called out, 'Father Abraham, take pity on me, send Lazarus to dip his fingertip in water and cool my tongue, for I am in anguish in these flames.'

Then he said, 'Well, father, I beg you to send him to my father's house,

Now his people hated him and sent envoys after him to say, 'We object to him having royal power over us.'

When the season came round he sent a servant to the vine dressers to receive part of the produce of the vineyard, but the vinedressers flogged him and sent him off with nothing.

He proceeded to send another servant, and they flogged him too, insulted him and sent him off with nothing.

Then he sent still a third, but this one they wounded and threw outside.

Said the owner of the vineyard, 'What shall I do? I will send my beloved son; perhaps they will respect him.'

So watching their chance they sent spies who pretended to be honest persons, in order to seize on what he said and get him handed over to the authority and jurisdiction of the governor.

And he said to them, "When I sent you out with neither purse nor wallet nor sandals, did you want for anything?" "No," they said, "for nothing."

And I will send down on you what my Father has promised; wait in the city till you are endued with power from on high."