A man appeared, sent by God, whose name was John:

"Then who are you?" they said; "tell us, so that we can give some answer to those who sent us. What have you to say for yourself?"

Now it was some of the Pharisees who had been sent to him;

I myself did not recognize him, but He who sent me to baptize with water told me, 'He on whom you see the Spirit descending and resting, that is he who baptizes with the holy Spirit.'

God did not send his Son into the world to pass sentence on it, but to save the world by him.

You can bear me out, that I said, 'I am not the Christ'; what I said was, 'I have been sent in advance of him.'

For he whom God has sent utters the words of God ??God gives him the Spirit in no sparing measure;

Jesus said, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.

I sent you to reap a crop for which you did not toil; other men have toiled, and you reap the profit of their toil."

that all men may honour the Son as they honour the Father. (He who does not honour the Son does not honour the Father who sent him.)

Truly, truly I tell you, he who listens to my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life; he will incur no sentence of judgment, he has already passed from death across to life.

I can do nothing of my own accord; I pass judgment on men as I am taught by God, and my judgment is just, because my aim is not my own will but the will of him who sent me.

You sent to John, and he bore testimony to the truth

But I possess a testimony greater than that of John, for the deeds which the Father has granted me to accomplish, the very deeds on which I am engaged, are my testimony that the Father has sent me.

The Father who sent me has also borne testimony to me himself; but his voice you have never heard, his form you have never seen,

his word you have not kept with you, because you do not believe him whom he sent.

Jesus replied to them, "This is the work of God, to believe in him whom God has sent."

for I have come down from heaven not to carry out my own will but the will of him who sent me,

and the will of him who sent me is that I lose none of those who are his gift to me, but that I raise them all up on the last day.

No one is able to come to me unless he is drawn by the Father who sent me (and I will raise him up on the last day).

Just as the living Father sent me and I live by the Father, so he who feeds on me will also live by me.

Jesus told them in reply, "My teaching is not my own but his who sent me;

He who talks on his own authority aims at his own credit, but he who aims at the credit of the person who sent him, he is sincere, and there is no dishonesty in him.

So Jesus cried aloud, as he was teaching in the temple, "You know me? you know where I come from? But I have not come on my own initiative; I am sent, and sent by Him who is real. You do not know Him,

but I know Him, because I have come from Him and He sent me."

Then said Jesus, "I will be with you a little longer, then I go to Him who sent me;

and though I do judge, my judgment is true, because I am not by myself ??there is myself and the Father who sent me.

I testify to myself, and the Father who sent me also testifies to me."

I have a great deal to say about you and many a judgment to pass upon you; but he who sent me is true, and so I tell the world what I have learned from him."

He who sent me is at my side; he has not left me alone; for I always do what pleases him."

Said Jesus, "If God were your father, you would love me, for I came here from God; I did not come of my own accord, I was sent by him.

saying, "Go and wash them in the pool of Siloam" (Siloam meaning 'sent'). So off he went and washed them, and went home seeing.

If the Law said they were gods, to whom the word of God came ??and scripture cannot be broken ??36 do you mean to tell me, whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am God's Son'?

so the sisters sent to him, saying, "Lord, he whom you love is ill."

(I knew thou wouldst always listen to me, but I spoke on account of the crowd around, that they might believe thou hast sent me.)"

And Jesus cried aloud, "He who believes in me believes not in me but in him who sent me,

and he who beholds me beholds him who sent me.

for I have not spoken of my own accord ??the Father who sent me, he it was who ordered me what to say and what to speak.

Truly, truly I tell you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than he who sent him.

(Truly, truly I tell you, he who receives anyone I send receives me, and he who receives me receives him who sent me.)"

He who does not love me does not obey my word; and what you hear me say is not my word but the word of the Father who sent me.

but the Helper, the holy Spirit whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything and recall to you everything I have said.

They will do all this to you on account of my name, because they know not him who sent me.

When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth which issues from the Father, he will bear witness to me;

but now I am going to him who sent me. And yet not one of you asks, 'Where are you going?'

Yet ??I am telling you the truth ??my going is for your good. If I do not depart, the Helper will not come to you; whereas if I go, I will send him to you.

And this is eternal life, that they know thee, the only real God, and him whom thou hast sent, even Jesus Christ.

for I have given them the words thou gavest me, and they have received them; they are now sure that I came from thee and believe that thou didst send me.

As thou hast sent me into the world, so have I sent them into the world,

may they all be one! As thou, Father, art in me and I in thee, so may they be in us ??that the world may believe thou hast sent me.

Yea, I have given them the glory thou gavest me, that they may be one as we are one ??23 I in them and thou in me ??that they may be made perfectly one, so that the world may recognize that thou hast sent me and hast loved them as thou hast loved me.

O just Father, though the world has not known thee, I have known thee, and they have known that thou hast sent me;

Then Annas had him bound and sent him to Caiaphas the high priest.

Jesus then repeated, "Peace be with you! As the Father sent me forth, I am sending you forth."