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."

and that the Lord may send Jesus your long-decreed Christ,

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

With these orders they went into the temple about dawn and proceeded to teach. Meantime the high priest and his allies met, called the Sanhedrin together and the council of seniors belonging to the sons of Israel, and then sent to prison for the men.

But, hearing there was food in Egypt, Jacob sent our ancestors on their first visit to that country;

Then Joseph sent for his father Jacob and all his kinsfolk, amounting to seventy-five souls;

I have indeed seen the oppression of my people in Egypt, I have heard their groans, and I have come down to rescue them. Come now, I will send you back to Egypt.'

The Moses they refused, when they said, 'Who made you ruler and umpire?' ??that was the very man whom God sent to rule and to redeem them, by aid of the angel who had appeared to him in the bush.

So Ananias went off and entered the house, laying his hands on him with these words, "Saul, my brother, I have been sent by the Lord, by Jesus who appeared to you on the road, to let you regain your sight and be filled with the holy Spirit."

they took him down to Caesarea and sent him off to Tarsus.

When the disciples heard that Peter was at Lydda (for Joppa is not far from Lydda), they sent two men to beg him to "Come on to us without delay."

You must now send some men to Joppa for a certain Simon who is surnamed Peter;

and after describing all the vision to them, he sent them to Joppa.

Come, get up and go down, and have no hesitation about accompanying them, for it is I who have sent them."

They said, "Cornelius, a captain, a good man who reverences God and enjoys a good reputation among the whole Jewish nation, was instructed by a holy angel to send for you to his house and to listen to what you had to say."

and so I have come without any demur when I was sent for. Now I want to know why you sent for me?"

You must send to Joppa and summon Simon who is surnamed Peter; he is staying in the house of Simon a tanner beside the sea.'

So I sent for you at once, and you have been kind enough to come. Well now, here we are all present before God to listen to what the Lord has commanded you to say."

You know the message he sent to the sons of Israel when he preached the gospel of peace by Jesus Christ (who is Lord of all);

At that very moment three men reached the house where I was living, sent to me from Caesarea.

He related to us how he had seen the angel standing in his house and saying, 'Send to Joppa for Simon who is surnamed Peter;

So the disciples put aside money, as each of them was able to afford it, for a contribution to be sent to the brothers in Judaea.

Then Peter came to his senses and said, "Now I know for certain that the Lord has sent his angel and rescued me from the hand of Herod and from all that the Jewish people were anticipating."

Sent out thus by the holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia and from there they sailed to Cyprus.

and, after the reading of the Law and the prophets, the presidents of the synagogue sent to tell them, "Brothers, if you have any word of counsel for the people, say it."

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

Then the apostles and the presbyters, together with the whole church, decided to select some of their number and send them with Paul and Barnabas to Antioch. The men selected were Judas (called Bar-Sabbas) and Silas, prominent members of the brotherhood.

we have decided unanimously to select some of our number and send them to you along with our beloved Paul and Barnabas

We therefore send Judas and Silas with the following message, which they will also give to you orally.

Then after some time had passed the brothers let them go with a greeting of peace to those who had sent them.

When day broke, the praetors sent the lictors with the message, "Release these men."

The jailer repeated this to Paul. "The praetors," he said, "have sent to release you. So come out and go in peace?"

Then the brothers at once sent off Paul and Silas by night to Beroea. When they arrived there, they betook themselves to the Jewish synagogue,

The brothers then sent off Paul at once on his way to the sea, while Silas and Timotheus remained where they were.

Some of the Asiarchs, who were friends of his, also sent to beg him not to venture into the amphitheatre.)

When the tumult had ceased, Paul sent for the disciples and encouraged them; he then took leave of them and went his way to Macedonia.

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

But he said to me, 'Go; I will send you afar to the Gentiles ????'"

Some days later Felix arrived with his wife Drusilla, who was a Jewess. He sent for Paul and heard what he had to say about faith in Christ Jesus;

but when he argued about morality, self-mastery, and the future judgment, Felix grew uneasy. "You may go for the present," he said; "when I can find a moment, I will send for you"

(though at the same time he hoped Paul would give him a bribe). So he did send for him pretty frequently and conversed with him.

as a special favour, to send for him to Jerusalem, meaning to lay an ambush for him and murder him on the road.

I could not find he had done anything that deserved death, so I decided to send him, on his own appeal, to the emperor.

I will rescue you from the People and also from the Gentiles ??to whom I send you,

Be sure of this, then, that this salvation of God has been sent to the Gentiles; they will listen to it."

And how can men preach unless they are sent? ??as it is written, How pleasant is the coming of men with glad, good news!

Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel. And to preach it with no fine rhetoric, lest the cross of Christ should lose its power!

On my arrival I will furnish credentials for those whom you select, and send them to convey your bounty to Jerusalem;

I asked Titus to go, and with him I sent our brother. Titus did not make anything out of you, did he? And did not I act in the same spirit as he did? Did I not take the very same steps?

but when the time had fully expired, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the Law,

It is because you are sons that God has sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts crying 'Abba! Father!'

I hope in the Lord Jesus to send you Timotheus before long, that I may be heartened by news of you.

I hope to send him then, as soon as ever I see how it will go with me ??24 though I am confident in the Lord that I shall be coming myself before long.

As for Epaphroditus, however, my brother, my fellow-worker, my fellow-soldier, and your messenger to meet my wants, I think it necessary to send you him at once,

So I am specially eager to send him, that you may be glad when you see him again, and thus my own anxiety may be lightened.

even when I was in Thessalonica, you sent money more than once for my needs.

Your debt to me is fully paid and more than paid! I am amply supplied with what you have sent by Epaphroditus, a fragrant perfume, the sort of sacrifice that God approves and welcomes.

I sent Timotheus our brother, a minister of God in the gospel of Christ, for your strengthening and encouragement in the faith,

Well then, unable to bear it any longer, I sent to find out about your faith, in case the Tempter had tempted you and our labour had been thrown away.

(I have had to send Tychicus to Ephesus.)

Whenever I send Artemas or Tychicus to you, do your best to come to me at Nicopolis, for I have decided to winter there.

Give a hearty send-off to Zenas the jurist and Apollos; see that they want for nothing.

I send you this letter relying on your obedience; I know you will do even more than I tell you.

to them it was revealed that they got this intelligence not for themselves but for you, regarding all that has now been disclosed to you by those who preached the gospel to you through the holy Spirit sent from heaven. The very angels long to get a glimpse of this!

and we have seen, we can testify, that the Father has sent the Son as the Saviour of the world.

"Write your vision in a book, and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus and Smyrna and Pergamum and Thyatira and Sardis and Philadelphia and Laodicea."

Then I noticed a Lamb standing in the midst of the throne and the four living Creatures and the Presbyters; it seemed to have been slain, but it had seven horns and seven eyes (they are the seven Spirits of God sent out into all the earth),