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

And I did not recognize him, but He who sent me to baptize in water said to me, 'The one on whom you see the Spirit descending and resting upon him, is he who baptizes in the Holy Spirit.'

This man came to Jesus by night, and said to him. "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher sent from God; for no man can do these signs which you are continually doing, unless God is with him."

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

You yourselves are my witnesses that I said, 'I am not the Christ, but have been sent before him.'

For he whom God sent utters the words of God; for God does not give the Spirit sparingly.

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

I sent you to reap a crop on which you have not toiled. Others have toiled, and you have reaped the benefit of their toil."

"in order that all may honor the Son even as they honor the Father. He who does not honor Son, does not honor the Father who sent him.

"I tell you solemnly that he who listens to my messages and believes Him who sent me, has eternal life. He will not come under condemnation, but has passed out of death into life.

"I can of my own self do nothing. As I listen, I judge, and my own judgment is just, because I am not seeking my own will, but the will of Him who sent me.

"You yourselves sent to John, and he has been and is a witness to the truth.

"But I have testimony greater than that of John; for the work which the Father has given me to bring to completion??he work which I am doing??ears testimony concerning me, that the Father has sent me.

"And the Father who sent me has himself borne testimony concerning me. None of you has heard his at any time or seen him,

nor had his word dwelling within you, because you do not believe him whom he sent.

"This is the work of God," answered Jesus, "that you believe on him whom He has sent you."

"For I am come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

"And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should not lose one of all those whom he has given me, but should raise them up at the last day.

answered Jesus; "no one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draw him; then I will raise him up on the last day.

"Just as the living Father has sent me, and I live by the Father, so also that man who feeds on me shall live by me.

In reply Jesus said to them; "My teaching is not mine, but is his who sent me. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world."

"The man who speaks on his own authority is always seeking his own glory. But one who is eager for the glory of Him who sent him, he is true, and therefore is nothing false about him.

So Jesus cried aloud as he was teaching in the Temple, and said: "You both know me and you know where I am from; and I am not come on my own authority, but he who sent me is trustworthy, and him you do not know.

"But I now him, because I am from him and he sent me."

The Pharisees heard the crowd muttering these things about him, and the high priest and Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.

Then Jesus said to them. "Still for a little longer I am with you, and then I am going my way to him who sent me.

"Though even if I do judge, my judgment is trustworthy, because I am not alone, but the Father who sent me is with me.

"I am one who gives testimony concerning myself, and the Father who sent me gives testimony concerning me."

"I have many things to say and to judge concerning you. But he who sent me is true, and I speak to the world only those things which I have heard from him."

"and he who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, for I do always the things that please him."

Jesus said to them. "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I proceeded forth and am now come from God. I did not come on my own authority, but God himself sent me.

"I must work the works of him that sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no man can work.

Then he said to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (a word which means "sent"). So the man went and washed his eyes, and came back seeing.

do you mean to tell me, whom the Father has sanctified and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God'?

So the sisters sent to him, saying. "Master, see who you hold dear is ill."

"Father, I thank thee that thou hast listened to me. And I knew that thou art ever listening to me, but for the sake of the crowd who are standing about, I said it, in order that they may believe that thou hast sent me."

"He who believes in me believes not in me, but in Him who sent me; and he who sees me sees him who sent me.

because I have never spoken on my own authority, but the Father himself who sent me gave me commandment what to say and what words to speak.

In solemn truth I tell you, he who receives any one that I send is receiving me; and he who receives me is receiving Him who sent me."

"He that loves me not does not obey words, and yet the words to which you are listening are not mine, but the Father's who sent me.

"But the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything, and bring to your remembrance everything that I have told you.

"But they will do all these things to you for my name's sake, because they know not Him who sent me.

"When the Comforter is come whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of Truth who comes forth from the Father, he will bear witness of me;

"But now I go my way to Him who sent me, yet none of you asks me, 'Where are you going?'

"Yet?? am telling you the truth??y going is for your good. For unless I go away the Comforter will not come to you; but if I depart I will send him unto you.

And this is eternal life, to know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.

for I have given them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and they have believed that thou didst send me.

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

that they may all be one, even as thou, Father, art in me and I in thee; that they also may be in us; in order that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.

I in them and thou in me; that they may be made perfectly one, so that the world may recognize that thou didst send me, and hast loved them as thou hast loved me.

O righteous Father, though the world knew thee not, I have known thee, and these have known that though didst send me.

Then Annas sent him in chains to Caiaphas, the high priest.

Then Jesus said to them again. "Peace to you. As my Father has sent me forth, I also now am sending you."

"and that he may send Jesus, your appointed Messiah,

"It was for you first that God raised up his Servant, and sent him to bless you in turning every one of you away from your wicked ways."

When they heard this they went at early dawn to the Temple, and began to teach. Meantime when the high priest and his followers arrived, they summoned the Sanhedrin and all the Council of the Elders of the sons of Israel, and sent to the prison to fetch the apostles.

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

"Then Joseph sent and invited Jacob his father and all his family, numbering seventy-five souls, to come to him;

"Truly I have seen the oppression of my people in Egypt, and I have heard their groans, and am come down to rescue them; and now, come, I will send you into Egypt.

The apostle at Jerusalem, when they heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, sent to them Peter and John.

And so Ananias went and entered into the house, and laying his hands on him, said, "Brother Saul, the Lord, even Jesus, who appeared to you on your journey, has sent me that you may receive your sight, and be filled with the Holy Spirit."

When they learned this the brothers took him down to Caesarea, and then sent him forth to Tarsus.

And as Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples, when they heard that Peter was there, sent two men to him with the entreaty, "Delay not to come to us."

"and now send men to Joppa and fetch one Simon, who is called Peter.

and after telling them everything, he sent them to Joppa.

Now while Peter was greatly perplexed to know what the vision which he had been sent by Cornelius, and had made inquiries for the house of Simon, stood at the gate,

"Three men are now looking for you. Rise, go down and go with them, nothing doubting; for it is I who have sent them."

"Cornelius," they answered, "a captain, a devout man, and God-fearing, of whom the whole, Jewish nation speaks well, was instructed by a holy angel to send for you to come to his house, and to listen to your message."

To them he said: "You know, yourselves, that it is illegal for a Jew to associate with or to visit one of another nation; but God has taught me that I should not call any man common or unclean. For this reason, when sent for, I came without demur.

"I ask therefore why you sent for me."

"'So send to Joppa and summon Simon, who is called Peter. He is lodging with Simon the tanner, in a house by the seaside.'

"So I sent for you without delay, and you have been kind enough to come. Now therefore we are all here present in the sight of God, to listen to what the Lord has commanded you to speak."

"You cannot but know the message which he sent to the descendants of Israel, when he preached the gospel of peace by Jesus Christ who is Lord of all;

"And lo! at that very moment, three men who had been sent for me from Caesarea stood before the house in which I was.

"Then he told us how he had seen the angel standing in his house and saying. "'Send to Joppa and fetch Simon who is also called Peter.

When news of this reached the ears of the church at Jerusalem, they sent Barnabas as far as Antioch.

So the disciples decided to send relief, every man according to his means, to the brothers in Judea.

Peter, coming to himself, said, "Now I know for a certainty that the Lord has sent his angel and released me from the hand of Herod, and from all that the Jewish people were anticipating."

So they, sent forth by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia, and from thence they sailed to Cyprus.

And, after the reading of the Law and the Prophets, the wardens of the synagogue sent word to them. "Brothers," they said, "if you have any word of encouragement to the people, say it."

"Brothers, sons of Abraham's race, and all among you who reverence God, to us has the word of this salvation been sent.

Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, together with the whole church, to select some of their number, and to send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. The men chosen were Judas called Bar-Sabbas, and Silas, leading men among the brethren.

They took with them the following letter. "The apostles and older brothers send greeting to the Gentile Brotherhood throughout Antioch and Syria and Cilicia;

"we have unanimously decided to select certain men, and to send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul;

"So we have sent Judas and Silas to tell you the same things by word of mouth.

After spending some time there the brothers let them go with a greeting of peace to those who had sent them.

But in the morning the praetors sent their lictors with the order, "Let these men go."

The jailer reported the words to Paul, saying. "The praetors have sent to release you; so come out, and go in peace."

Now the brothers sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea. When they got there they betook themselves to the Jewish synagogue.

Then the brothers at once sent Paul down to the sea, but Silas and Timothy remained behind.

So he sent two of his assistants, Timothy and Erastus, into Macedonia, while he himself kept back for a time on his way into Asia.

and some of the Asiarchs, too, who were his friends, sent word to him repeatedly, entreating him not to venture into the theater.

After the uproar had ceased, Paul sent for the disciples and, after embracing them, bade them farewell, and started for Macedonia.

From Miletus he sent to Ephesus for the elders of the church to come to him;

"'Depart,' he said to me, 'for I will send you forth, far hence, to the Gentiles.'"

So the tribune sent the young man home with the injunction, "Tell no man that you have given me this information."

"Now when I received information that there would be a plot against the man, I sent him at once to you, charging his accusers also to speak against him before you."

So Paul was sent for, and then Tertullus began to accuse him, saying. "As it is owing to your excellency that we enjoy profound peace, and that the state of this nation,

Some days later Felix came, with his wife Drusilla, a Jewess; he sent for Paul, and listened to him concerning the faith in Christ Jesus.

And as he reasoned about morality, self-control, and the future judgment, Felix was terrified, and said, "For the present go on your way, and when I find a convenient season, I will send for you."