He sent them to Bethlehem and said, “Go and search carefully for the child. When you find Him, report back to me so that I too can go and worship Him.”

So whenever you give to the poor, don’t sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be applauded by people. I assure you: They’ve got their reward!

But everyone who hears these words of Mine and doesn’t act on them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand.

“If You drive us out,” the demons begged Him, “send us into the herd of pigs.”

Therefore, pray to the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into His harvest.”

Jesus sent out these 12 after giving them instructions: “Don’t take the road leading to other nations, and don’t enter any Samaritan town.

“The one who welcomes you welcomes Me, and the one who welcomes Me welcomes Him who sent Me.

When John heard in prison what the Messiah was doing, he sent a message by his disciples

The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will gather from His kingdom everything that causes sin and those guilty of lawlessness.

So he sent orders and had John beheaded in the prison.

When evening came, the disciples approached Him and said, “This place is a wilderness, and it is already late. Send the crowds away so they can go into the villages and buy food for themselves.”

Yet He did not say a word to her. So His disciples approached Him and urged Him, “Send her away because she cries out after us.”

He replied, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”

Now Jesus summoned His disciples and said, “I have compassion on the crowd, because they’ve already stayed with Me three days and have nothing to eat. I don’t want to send them away hungry; otherwise they might collapse on the way.”

“Why then,” they asked Him, “did Moses command us to give divorce papers and to send her away?”

After agreeing with the workers on one denarius for the day, he sent them into his vineyard.

When they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage at the Mount of Olives, Jesus then sent two disciples,

If anyone says anything to you, you should say that the Lord needs them, and immediately he will send them.”

When the grape harvest drew near, he sent his slaves to the farmers to collect his fruit.

Again, he sent other slaves, more than the first group, and they did the same to them.

Finally, he sent his son to them. ‘They will respect my son,’ he said.

He sent out his slaves to summon those invited to the banquet, but they didn’t want to come.

Again, he sent out other slaves, and said, ‘Tell those who are invited: Look, I’ve prepared my dinner; my oxen and fattened cattle have been slaughtered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.’

The king was enraged, so he sent out his troops, destroyed those murderers, and burned down their city.

They sent their disciples to Him, with the Herodians. “Teacher,” they said, “we know that You are truthful and teach truthfully the way of God. You defer to no one, for You don’t show partiality.

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem! She who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her. How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, yet you were not willing!

He will send out His angels with a loud trumpet, and they will gather His elect from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.

While he was sitting on the judge’s bench, his wife sent word to him, “Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for today I’ve suffered terribly in a dream because of Him!”

Then He sternly warned him and sent him away at once,

He also appointed 12—He also named them apostles—to be with Him, to send them out to preach,

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

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

The demons begged Him, “Send us to the pigs, so we may enter them.”

He summoned the Twelve and began to send them out in pairs and gave them authority over unclean spirits.

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

Send them away, so they can go into the surrounding countryside and villages to buy themselves something to eat.”

If I send them home hungry, they will collapse on the way, and some of them have come a long distance.”

Then He sent him home, saying, “Don’t even go into the village.”

“Whoever welcomes one little child such as this in My name welcomes Me. And whoever welcomes Me does not welcome Me, but Him who sent Me.”

They said, “Moses permitted us to write divorce papers and send her away.”

When they approached Jerusalem, at Bethphage and Bethany near the Mount of Olives, He sent two of His disciples

If anyone says to you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ say, ‘The Lord needs it and will send it back here right away.’”

At harvest time he sent a slave to the farmers to collect some of the fruit of the vineyard from the farmers.

But they took him, beat him, and sent him away empty-handed.

Again he sent another slave to them, and they hit him on the head and treated him shamefully.

Then he sent another, and they killed that one. He also sent many others; they beat some and they killed some.

“He still had one to send, a beloved son. Finally he sent him to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’

Then they sent some of the Pharisees and the Herodians to Him to trap Him by what He said.

He will send out the angels and gather His elect from the four winds, from the end of the earth to the end of the sky.

So He sent two of His disciples and told them, “Go into the city, and a man carrying a water jug will meet you. Follow him.

The angel answered him, “I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God, and I was sent to speak to you and tell you this good news.

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

For you see, when the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby leaped for joy inside me!

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

The Spirit of the Lord is on Me,
because He has anointed Me
to preach good news to the poor.
He has sent Me
to proclaim freedom to the captives
and recovery of sight to the blind,
to set free the oppressed,

Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them—but to a widow at Zarephath in Sidon.

But He said to them, “I must proclaim the good news about the kingdom of God to the other towns also, because I was sent for this purpose.”

When the centurion heard about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders to Him, requesting Him to come and save the life of his slave.

Jesus went with them, and when He was not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to tell Him, “Lord, don’t trouble Yourself, since I am not worthy to have You come under my roof.

When those who had been sent returned to the house, they found the slave in good health.

and sent them to the Lord, asking, “Are You the One who is to come, or should we look for someone else?”

When the men reached Him, they said, “John the Baptist sent us to ask You, ‘Are You the One who is to come, or should we look for someone else?’”

The man from whom the demons had departed kept begging Him to be with Him. But He sent him away and said,

Then He sent them to proclaim the kingdom of God and to heal the sick.

Late in the day, the Twelve approached and said to Him, “Send the crowd away, so they can go into the surrounding villages and countryside to find food and lodging, because we are in a deserted place here.”

He told them, “Whoever welcomes this little child in My name welcomes Me. And whoever welcomes Me welcomes Him who sent Me. For whoever is least among you—this one is great.”

He sent messengers ahead of Him, and on the way they entered a village of the Samaritans to make preparations for Him.

After this, the Lord appointed 70 others, and He sent them ahead of Him in pairs to every town and place where He Himself was about to go.

He told them: “The harvest is abundant, but the workers are few. Therefore, pray to the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into His harvest.

Whoever listens to you listens to Me. Whoever rejects you rejects Me. And whoever rejects Me rejects the One who sent Me.”

Because of this, the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will kill and persecute,’

I tell you, you will never get out of there until you have paid the last cent.”

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem! She who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her. How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!

But they kept silent. He took the man, healed him, and sent him away.

At the time of the banquet, he sent his slave to tell those who were invited, ‘Come, because everything is now ready.’

Then he went to work for one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed pigs.

‘Your brother is here,’ he told him, ‘and your father has slaughtered the fattened calf because he has him back safe and sound.’

‘Father Abraham!’ he called out, ‘Have mercy on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in agony in this flame!’

“‘Father,’ he said, ‘then I beg you to send him to my father’s house—

“But his subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We don’t want this man to rule over us!’

As He approached Bethphage and Bethany, at the place called the Mount of Olives, He sent two of the disciples

So those who were sent left and found it just as He had told them.

At harvest time he sent a slave to the farmers so that they might give him some fruit from the vineyard. But the farmers beat him and sent him away empty-handed.

He sent yet another slave, but they beat that one too, treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty-handed.

And he sent yet a third, but they wounded this one too and threw him out.

“Then the owner of the vineyard said, ‘What should I do? I will send my beloved son. Perhaps they will respect him.’

They watched closely and sent spies who pretended to be righteous, so they could catch Him in what He said, to hand Him over to the governor’s rule and authority.

Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, “Go and prepare the Passover meal for us, so we can eat it.”

He also said to them, “When I sent you out without money-bag, traveling bag, or sandals, did you lack anything?”

“Not a thing,” they said.

Finding that He was under Herod’s jurisdiction, he sent Him to Herod, who was also in Jerusalem during those days.

Then Herod, with his soldiers, treated Him with contempt, mocked Him, dressed Him in a brilliant robe, and sent Him back to Pilate.

Neither has Herod, because he sent Him back to us. Clearly, He has done nothing to deserve death.

There was a man named John
who was sent from God.

This is John’s testimony when the Jews from Jerusalem sent priests and Levites to ask him, “Who are you?”

“Who are you, then?” they asked. “We need to give an answer to those who sent us. What can you tell us about yourself?”

Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.

I didn’t know Him, but He who sent me to baptize with water told me, ‘The One you see the Spirit descending and resting on—He is the One who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’

The wind blows where it pleases, and you hear its sound, but you don’t know where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”

For God did not send His Son into the world that He might condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.

You yourselves can testify that I said, ‘I am not the Messiah, but I’ve been sent ahead of Him.’