Then Herod secretly sent for the astrologers, and found out from them the exact time when the star appeared.

And he sent them to Bethlehem, and said to them, "Go and inquire particularly about the child, and when you have found him, bring me word, so that I may go and do homage to him too."

Then Herod saw that he had been tricked by the astrologers, and he was very angry, and he sent and made away with all the boys in Bethlehem and in all that neighborhood who were two years old or under, for that was the tune he had learned from the astrologers by his inquiries.

And the demons entreated him, saying, "If you are going to drive us out, send us into the drove of pigs."

So pray to the owner of the harvest to send reapers to gather it."

Jesus sent these twelve out, after giving them these directions: "Do not go among the heathen, or to any Samaritan town,

"Whoever welcomes you welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes him who has sent me.

Now when John heard in prison of what the Christ was doing, he sent by his disciples

This is the man of whom the Scripture says, " 'Here I send my messenger on before you; He will prepare the road ahead of you.'

the Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will gather up out of his kingdom all the causes of sin and the wrongdoers

And he sent and had John beheaded in the prison.

And when it was evening, the disciples came up to him and said, "This is a lonely place and the day is over. Send the crowds off to the villages to buy themselves food."

And the men of the place recognized him, and sent all over that district and brought to him all who were sick,

But he would not answer her a word. And his disciples came up and urged him, saying, "Send her away, for she keeps screaming after us."

But he answered, "I am sent only to the lost sheep of Israel's house."

Then Jesus called his disciples to him and said to them, "I pity these people for they have been staying with me three days now and they have nothing left to eat, and I do not mean to send them away hungry, for they may give out on the way."

He agreed with the laborers to pay them a dollar a day, and sent them to his vineyard.

When they were near Jerusalem and had come to Bethphage and the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples on ahead,

If anyone says anything to you, you are to say, 'The Master needs them'; then he will send them at once."

When the time for the vintage approached he sent his slaves to the tenants to receive his share.

Again he sent other slaves and more of them than he had sent at first, and they treated them in the same way.

Finally he sent his son to them, thinking, 'They will respect my son.'

And he sent his slaves to summon those who had been invited to the banquet, and they would not come.

He sent other slaves a second time, and said to them, 'Tell those who have been asked, "Here I have my banquet all ready, my bullocks and fat cattle are killed, and everything is ready. Come to the banquet!" '

This made the king angry, and he sent his troops and put those murderers to death and burned their city.

So they sent their disciples to him with the Herodians, to say to him, "Master, we know that you tell the truth, and teach the way of God with sincerity, regardless of the consequences, for you are impartial.

This is why I am going to send you prophets, wise men and scribes, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and hunt from one town to another;

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem! murdering the prophets, and stoning those who are sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children around me, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you refused!

And he will send out his angels with a loud trumpet-call, and they will gather his chosen people from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.

Now while he was on the bench his wife sent to him to say, "Do not have anything to do with that upright man, for I have just had a painful experience in a dream about him."

As it is written in the prophet Isaiah, "Here I send my messenger on before you; He will prepare your way;

He appointed twelve of them, whom he called apostles, to be with him and to be sent out to preach,

And his mother and his brothers came. And they stood outside the house and sent word in to him to come outside to them.

And they begged him earnestly not to send them out of that country.

And they implored him, "Send us among the pigs, let us go into them."

And he called the Twelve to him and sent them off two by two, giving them power over the foul spirits.

For it was Herod who had sent and seized John and bound him and put him in prison, on account of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, because Herod had married her.

and he immediately sent one of his guard with orders to get John's head.

Send the people off to the farms and villages around to buy themselves something to eat."

And if I send them home hungry they will give out on the way, for some of them come from a distance."

And he sent him home and said to him, "Do not even go into the village."

"Whoever welcomes one child like this on my account is welcoming me, and whoever welcomes me, welcomes not me but him who has sent me."

When they were getting near Jerusalem, and had come to Bethphage and Bethany near the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of his disciples on ahead,

And if anybody says to you, 'Why are you doing that?' say, 'The Master needs it, and will send it back here directly.' "

At the proper time he sent a slave to the tenants to get from them a share of the vintage.

And they took him and beat him and sent him back empty-handed.

And again he sent another slave to them. And they beat him over the head and treated him shamefully.

And he sent another; and him they killed; and so with many others, some they beat and some they killed.

He still had one left to send, a dearly loved son. He sent him to them last of all, thinking, 'They will respect my son.'

They sent some Pharisees and Herodians to him to entrap him in argument.

and then he will send out the angels and gather his chosen people from the four winds, from one end of the world to the other.

So he sent away two of his disciples, saying to them, "Go into the city, and you will meet a man carrying a pitcher of water. Follow him,

Pilate wondered whether he was dead already, and he sent for the captain and asked whether he was dead yet,

And they fled out of the tomb, for they were all trembling and bewildered, and they said nothing about it to anyone, for they were afraid to do so. AN ANCIENT APPENDIX But they reported briefly to Peter and his companions all they had been told. And afterward Jesus himself sent out by them from the east to the west the sacred and incorruptible message of eternal salvation. \b ANOTHER ANCIENT APPENDIX

The angel answered, "I am Gabriel. I stand in the very presence of 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 Nazareth,

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

"The spirit of the Lord is upon me, For he has consecrated me to preach the good news to the poor, He has sent me to announce to the prisoners their release and to the blind the recovery of their sight, To set the down-trodden at liberty,

and Elijah was not sent to one of them, but to a widow at Zarephath in Sidon.

But he said to them, "I must preach the good news of the Kingdom of God to the other towns also, for that is what I was sent to do."

When the captain heard about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders to him, to ask him to come and save his slave's life.

So Jesus went with them. But when he was not far from the house, the captain sent some friends to him, to say to him, "Master, do not take any more trouble, for I am not a suitable person to have you under my roof.

and he called two of them to him, and sent them to the Master to ask him, "Are you the one who was to come, or should we look for someone else?"

And the men went to him and said, "John the Baptist sent us to you to ask, 'Are you the one who was to come, or should we look for someone else?' "

This is the man of whom the Scripture says, " 'Here I send my messenger on before you, He will prepare the road ahead of you!'

The man out of whom the demons had gone begged to go with him, but Jesus sent him away, and said,

and he sent them out to proclaim the Kingdom of God and to cure the sick.

When the day began to decline, the Twelve came up and said to him, "Send the crowd away to the villages and farms around to find food and shelter, for we are in a lonely place here."

and said to them, "Whoever welcomes this child on my account is welcoming me, and whoever welcomes me, welcomes him who has sent me. For it is the lowliest among you all who is really great."

and sent messengers before him. They started out and went into a Samaritan village, to make preparations for him.

After this the Master appointed seventy-two others, and sent them on before him, two by two, to every town or place to which he intended to come.

And he said to them, "The harvest is abundant enough, but the reapers are few. So pray to the owner of the harvest to send reapers to gather it.

Now go. Here I send you out like lambs among wolves.

Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever disregards you disregards me, and whoever disregards me disregards him who sent me."

This is why the Wisdom of God said, 'I will send prophets and apostles to them, and some of them they will kill and some they will persecute'??50 so that this age may be charged with the blood of all the prophets that has been shed since the creation of the world,

O Jerusalem! Jerusalem! murdering the prophets, and stoning those who are sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children around me, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you refused!

But they made no answer. And he took hold of the man and cured him and sent him away.

and when the dinner hour came, he sent around his slave, to say to those who were invited, 'Come! for it is now ready!'

And he went and hired himself out to a resident of the country, and he sent him into his fields to tend pigs.

And he called to him and said, 'Father Abraham! take pity on me, and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am in torment, here in the flames!'

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

But his countrymen hated him, and they sent a delegation after him to say, 'We do not want this man made king over us.'

When he was near Bethphage and Bethany by the hill called the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples

And at the proper time he sent a slave to the tenants to have them give him a share of the vintage, but the tenants beat him, and sent him back empty-handed.

And again he sent another slave, and they beat him also and mistreated him and sent him back empty-handed.

And again he sent a third, but they wounded him too, and threw him outside.

Then the owner of the vineyard said, 'What can I do? I will send them my dear son; perhaps they will respect him.'

Jesus sent Peter and John, saying to them, "Go and make preparations for us to eat the Passover."

And he said to them, "When I sent you out without any purse or bag or shoes, was there anything you needed?" They said, "No, nothing."

And Herod and his guards made light of him and ridiculed him, and they put a gorgeous robe on him and sent him back to Pilate.

Neither has Herod, for he has sent him back to us. You see he has done nothing to call for his death.

And I will send down upon you what my Father has promised. Wait here in the city until you are clothed with power from on high."

For God did not send his Son into the world to pass judgment upon the world, but that through him the world might be saved.

You will bear me witness that I said, 'I am not the Christ; I have been sent in advance of him.'

For he whom God has sent speaks God's words, for God gives him his Spirit without measure.

Jesus said to them, "My food is doing the will of him who has sent me, and finishing his work.

I have sent you to reap a harvest on which you have not worked. Other men have worked and you have profited by their work."

so that all men may honor the Son just as much as they honor the Father. Whoever refuses to honor the Son refuses to honor the Father who sent him.

I tell you, whoever listens to my message and believes him who has sent me, possesses eternal life, and will not come to judgment, but has already passed out of death into life.

I cannot do anything of my own accord. I pass judgment just as I am told to do, and my judgment is just, for I am not seeking to do what I please, but what pleases him who has sent me.