You yourselves sent to John, and he testified to the truth.

But I have higher testimony than John's, for the things that my Father has intrusted to me to accomplish, the very things that I am doing, are proof that my Father has sent me,

and my Father who has sent me has thus borne witness to me. You have never heard his voice or seen his form,

and you do not keep his message in your hearts, for you do not believe the messenger whom he has sent.

Jesus answered them, "The work God has for you is to believe in the messenger that he has sent to you."

for I have come down from heaven not to do what I please but what pleases him who has sent me.

And the purpose of him who has sent me is this, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but should raise them to life on the Last Day.

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him to me; then I myself will raise him to life on the Last Day.

Just as the living Father has sent me, and I live because of the Father, so he who lives on me will live because of me.

So Jesus answered, "My teaching is not my own; it comes from him who has sent me.

Whoever speaks simply for himself is looking for honor for himself, but whoever looks for honor for the person who has sent him shows his sincerity; there is no dishonesty about him.

So Jesus, as he was teaching in the Temple, cried out, "You do know me and you do know where I come from, and I have not come of my own accord but someone who is very real, whom you do not know, has sent me.

I do know him, because I come from him, and he has sent me here."

The Pharisees heard the people saying these things about him in whispers, and the high priests and the Pharisees sent attendants to arrest him.

Jesus said, "I am to be with you a little while longer, and then I am going to him who has sent me.

But even if I do judge, my decision is just, because I am not by myself, but the Father who sent me is with me.

Here I am testifying to myself, and the Father who has sent me testifies to me."

"Why do I even talk to you at all? I have a great deal to say about you and to condemn in you, yet he who sent me is truthful, and the things that I say to the world are things that I have learned from him."

And he who has sent me is with me; he has not left me alone, for I always do what pleases him."

Jesus said to them, "If God were your father, you would love me, for I have come from God. I have not come of my own accord, but he has sent me.

We must carry on the work of him who has sent me while the daylight lasts. Night is coming, when no one can do any work.

and said to him, "Go and wash them in the Pool of Siloam"?? name which means One who has been sent. So he went and washed them, and went home able to see.

So the sisters sent this message to Jesus: "Master, your friend is sick."

But Jesus cried loudly, "Whoever believes in me, believes not in me but in him who has sent me;

and whoever sees me, sees him who has sent me.

for I have not spoken on my account, but the Father who has sent me has himself given me orders what to tell and what to say.

I assure you, whoever welcomes any messenger of mine welcomes me and whoever welcomes me welcomes him who has sent me."

No one who does not love me will observe my teaching, and yet the teaching you are listening to is not mine but is that of him who has sent me.

but the Helper, the holy Spirit which the Father will send in my place, will teach you everything and remind you of everything that I have told you.

But they will do all this to you on my account, because they do not understand him who sent me.

When the Helper comes whom I will send to you from the Father??hat Spirit of Truth that comes from the Father??e will bear testimony to me,

But now I am going away to him who sent me, and not one of you asks me where I am going,

Yet it is only the truth when I tell you that it is better for you that I should go away. For if I do not go, the Helper will not come to you, but if I go I will send him to you.

for I have given them the truths that you gave me, and they have accepted them and been convinced that I came from you, and they believe that you sent me.

Just as you sent me to the world, I have sent them to the world.

Let them all be one. Just as you, Father, are in union with me and I am with you, let them be in union with us, so that the world may believe that you sent me.

I in union with them and you with me, so that they may be perfectly unified, and the world may recognize that you sent me and that you love them just as you loved me.

Righteous Father, though the world did not know you, I knew you, and these men knew that you had sent me.

So Annas sent him over still bound to Caiaphas the high priest.

Jesus said to them again, "Peace be with you! Just as my Father sent me forth so I now send you."

and he will send Jesus, your destined Christ.

It was to you that God first sent his servant after he had raised him from the dead, to bless you by making every one of you turn from his wickedness."

And they obeyed, and about daybreak went into the Temple and began to teach. The high priest and his party came over and called together the council and indeed the whole senate of the Israelites, and sent to the prison to have the apostles brought in.

But Jacob heard that there was food in Egypt, and he sent our forefathers on their first visit there.

Then Joseph sent and invited his father Jacob and all his relatives, seventy-five in all,

The Moses whom they had refused, saying to him, 'Who made you our ruler and judge?' God sent both to rule and to deliver them, with the help of the angel who had appeared to him in the bush.

When the apostles at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted God's message, they sent Peter and John there.

Ananias set out and went to the house, and there he laid his hands upon Saul, and said to him, "Saul, my brother, I have been sent by the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on your journey, so that you may regain your sight and be filled with the holy Spirit."

When the brothers found this out, they took him down to Caesarea, and sent him away to Tarsus.

As Joppa was near Lydda, the disciples heard that Peter was there, and they sent two men to him, urging him to come over without delay.

Now send men to Joppa, for a man named Simon, who is also called Peter.

and after telling them the whole story, sent them to Joppa.

While Peter was still wondering what the vision he had had could mean, the men whom Cornelius had sent had asked the way to Simon's house and reached the door,

Get up and go down, and go with them without any hesitation, for I have sent them."

They answered, "Cornelius, who is a captain, and an upright and God-fearing man, and who has a good reputation with the whole Jewish nation, was directed by a holy angel to send for you to come to his house, and to listen to what you have to say."

That was why, when I was sent for, I came without any hesitation. And now I want to ask why you sent for me."

So send to Joppa and invite Simon who is called Peter to come here. He is staying at the house of a tanner named Simon, close to the sea.'

So I sent for you immediately, and you have very kindly come. Now we are all here in God's presence, to hear everything that the Lord has instructed you to say."

He has sent his message to Israel's descendants, and made the good news of peace known to them through Jesus Christ. He is Lord of us all.

Just at that moment three men, who had been sent from Caesarea to find me, reached the house where we were staying,

Then he told us how he had seen the angel stand in his house and say, 'Send to Joppa for a man named Simon who is also called Peter,

The news about them came to the ears of the church in Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas all the way to Antioch.

The disciples determined to make up a contribution, each according to his ability, and send it to the brothers who lived in Judea,

Then Peter came to himself, and he said, "Now I am certain that the Lord sent his angel and rescued me from the power of Herod and all that the Jewish people were expecting."

Being sent out in this way by the holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia and sailed from there to Cyprus.

He was attached to the governor, Sergius Paulus, who was an intelligent man. He sent for Barnabas and Saul and asked them to let him hear God's message.

After the reading of the Law and the Prophets, the synagogue authorities sent to them, saying, "Brothers, if you have any appeal to make to the people, proceed."

Brothers! Descendants of the house of Abraham, and those others among you who reverence God! It is to us that this message of salvation has been sent.

Then the apostles and elders with the whole church resolved to select representatives and send them with Paul and Barnabas to Antioch. They were Judas who was called Barsabbas, and Silas, both leading men among the brothers.

They were the bearers of this letter: "The apostles and the brothers who are elders send greeting to the brothers of heathen birth in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia.

we have unanimously resolved to select representatives and send them to you with our dear brothers Barnabas and Paul,

So we send Judas and Silas to you, to give you this same message by word of mouth.

After they had stayed some time, the brothers let them go, with a greeting to those who had sent them.

In the morning the magistrates sent policemen with instructions to let the men go.

The jailer reported this message to Paul, saying, "The magistrates have sent orders that you are to be released. So you can take your leave and go unmolested."

The brothers sent Paul and Silas away immediately, in the course of the following night, to Berea. On arriving there they went to the Jewish synagogue.

Then the brothers immediately sent Paul off to the coast, while Silas and Timothy stayed behind.

He sent two of his assistants, Timothy and Erastus, to Macedonia, while he stayed on for a while in Asia.

Some of the religious authorities also, who were friends of his, sent to him and begged him not to venture into the theater.

When the confusion was over, Paul sent for the disciples and encouraged them. Then he bade them goodbye and started for Macedonia.

From Miletus he sent to Ephesus for the elders of the church.

But he said to me, 'Go! I will send you far away to the heathen.' "

So the colonel sent the youth away, directing him not to tell anyone that he had given him this information.

Some days later Felix came with his wife Drusilla, who was Jewish, and sent for Paul and heard what he had to say about faith in Christ Jesus.

But as he talked of uprightness, self-control, and the coming judgment, Felix became alarmed, and said, "You may go for the present. I will find time later to send for you."

At the same time he hoped to get money from Paul, and for that reason he used to send for him very often and talk with him.

But Paul appealed to have his case reserved for his Majesty's decision, and I have ordered him kept in custody until I can send him to the emperor."

I could not find that he had done anything for which he deserved death, but as he appealed to his Majesty I decided to send him to him.

For it seems to me absurd to send a prisoner on, without stating the charges against him."

I will save you from your people and from the heathen, to whom I will send you

"Understand then that this message of God's salvation has been sent to the heathen. They will listen to it!"

And how are men to preach unless they are sent to do it? As the Scripture says, "How welcome is the coming of those who bring good news!"

For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the good news??ut not with fine language, or the cross of Christ might seem an empty thing.

This is why I have sent Timothy to you. He is a dear child of mine, in the service of the Lord, and one on whom you can depend, and he will help you to keep in mind my methods in the service of Christ Jesus, which I follow everywhere in every church.

When I come I will send whatever persons you authorize with credentials, to carry your gift to Jerusalem.

The churches of Asia wish to be remembered to you. Aquila and Prisca, with the congregation that meets at their house, send you their special Christian greetings.

I send with them another brother of ours whose devotion we have often tested in many ways, which is now greater than ever, because of his perfect confidence in you.

But I send the brothers so that our pride in you may not have a fall in this matter, but you may be all ready as I have told them you will;

So to keep me from being too much elated a bitter physical affliction was sent to me, a very messenger of Satan, to harass me, to keep me from being too much elated.

Yet did I make anything out of you by anybody that I sent to you?