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

I have sent you to reap a harvest which you have not labored to make. Other men have labored, but you have reaped the results of their labors."

that all men may honor the Son as they do the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.

"I most solemnly say to you, whoever listens to me and believes Him who has sent me possesses eternal life, and will never come under condemnation, but has already passed out of death into life.

I cannot do anything by myself. As I get orders, so I judge, and my judgment is a just one, for I am not trying to do my own will but the will of Him who has sent me.

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

But I have testimony that is higher than John's, for the works which my Father has committed to me to finish, the very works that I am doing, testify to me that the Father has sent me;

yes, the Father who has sent me has testified to me Himself. You have never heard His voice nor seen His form;

and you do not keep His message living in you, because you do not believe in the messenger whom He has sent.

Jesus answered them, "The work that God demands of you is this, to believe in the messenger whom He has sent."

because I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of Him who sent me.

Now the will of Him who sent me is this, that I should lose none 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 whoever keeps on eating me will live because of me.

Jesus answered them, "My teaching is not my own, but it comes from Him who sent me.

Whoever utters merely his own ideas is seeking his own honor, but whoever seeks the honor of him who sent him is sincere, and there is no dishonesty in him.

So Jesus, as He was teaching in the temple, cried out, "Yes, you do know me and you do know where I come from, and I have not come on my own authority, but the One who has sent me exists as the Real One, whom you do not know.

I know Him myself, because I have come from Him, and He has sent me."

The Pharisees heard the people whispering this about Him, and so the high priests and Pharisees sent some officers to arrest Him.

Then Jesus said to them, "Just a little while longer I am to be with you, and then I am going back to Him who has sent me.

Even if I should judge, my decision is fair, because I am not alone, but there are two of us, I and the Father who has sent me.

I do testify to myself, and the Father who has sent me testifies to me."

I have much to say about you and much to condemn in you, but He who sent me is truthful, and I am telling the world only what I have learned from Him."

Yes, He who sent me is ever with me; I am not alone, because I always practice what pleases Him."

Then Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and now am here. No, indeed, I have not come on my own authority, but He has sent me.

We must continue to do the works of Him who sent me while it is daylight. Night is coming when no one can do any work.

and said, "Go and wash them in the pool of Siloam" (which means One who has been sent). So he went and washed them and went home seeing.

do you now say to me whom my Father has set apart to it and sent into the world, 'You are a blasphemer,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God'?

So the sisters sent this message to Jesus, "Lord, listen! the one you love so well is sick."

yes, I knew that you always listen to me. But I have said this for the sake of the crowd that is standing by, that they may come to believe that you have sent me."

But Jesus cried aloud, "Whoever believes in me believes not merely in me but in Him who has sent me;

and whoever sees me sees Him who has sent me.

This is because I have not spoken on my own authority, but the Father who has sent me has given me orders Himself what to say and what to tell.

I most solemnly say to you, whoever welcomes any messenger I send welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes Him who has sent me."

Whoever does not really love me does not observe my teaching; and yet the teaching which you are listening to is not mine but comes from the Father who has sent me.

But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send to represent me, will teach you everything Himself, and cause you to remember everything that I have told you.

They will do all this to you on account of me, because they do not know Him who has sent me.

"When the Helper comes whom I will send from the Father to you, the Spirit of truth that comes from the Father, He will testify to me.

But now I am going away to Him who has sent me, and not one of you is asking me where I am going,

Yet it is nothing but the truth I now tell you, that it is better for you that I should go away. For if I do not go away, the Helper will not come into close fellowship with you, but if I do go away, I will send Him to be in close fellowship with you.

for I have given them the teachings that you gave me, and they have accepted them, and they have come to know in reality that I did come from you, and so they are convinced that you did send me.

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

for them all to be one, just as you, Father, are in union with me and I in union with you, for them to be in union with us, so that the world may be convinced that you have sent me.

I in union with them and you in union with me, so that they may be perfectly united, and the world may be sure that you sent me and that you have loved them just as you have loved me.

Righteous Father, although the world did not know you, I did know you, and these men have come to know that you sent me,

So Annas sent Him over, still in handcuffs, to Caiaphas the high priest.

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

and He may send back Jesus, the Christ who long ago was appointed for you.

It was to you first that He sent His Servant, after raising Him from the dead, to bless you by causing every one of you to turn from his wicked ways."

So they obeyed, and about the break of day they went into the temple square and began to teach. The high priest and his party arrived and called a meeting of the council and the whole senate of the sons of Israel, and sent to the prison to have the men brought in.

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

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

Because I have seen the oppression of my people in Egypt and heard their groans, I have come down to deliver them. So come! I will send you back to Egypt as my messenger.'

That very Moses whom they refused, saying, 'Who made you our ruler and referee?' was the man whom God sent to be both their ruler and deliverer, by 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.

So Ananias left and went to that house, and there he laid his hands upon Saul, and said, "Saul, my. brother, the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road on which you were coming here, has sent me that you may regain your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit."

So when the brothers found this out, they took him down to Caesarea, and from there sent him back to Tarsus.

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

So now send men to Joppa and invite over a man named Simon, who is also called Peter.

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

Now while Peter was still at a loss to know what the vision he had seen could mean, the men who had been sent by Cornelius had asked for the way to Simon's house and had stopped at the gate;

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

They answered, "Cornelius, a colonel in the army, an upright man and one who reveres God, and a man of high reputation with the whole Jewish nation, was instructed by a holy angel to send for you to come to his house and to listen to a message you would bring."

so I have come, since I was sent for, without any hesitation."

So send to Joppa and invite Simon, who is called Peter, to come over. He is being entertained at the house of a tanner named Simon, by the seashore.'

So at once I sent for you, and you have been kind enough to come. So now we are all here in God's presence to listen to anything that the Lord has commanded you to say."

He has sent His message to the descendants of Israel, by telling them the good news of peace through Jesus Christ. He is Lord of all.

Just at that moment three men, who had been sent from Caesarea for me, stopped at the house where we were staying.

Then he told us how he had seen the angel stand in his house and say to him, 'Send to Joppa and invite Simon, who is called Peter, to come over;

Now the news about them came to the ears of the church at Jerusalem, and so they sent Barnabas all the way to Antioch.

So the disciples decided to send a contribution, each in proportion to his prosperity, to help the brothers who lived in Judea.

And this they did and sent it to the elders by Barnabas and Saul.

Then Peter came to himself and said, "Now I really know that the Lord has sent His angel and rescued me from the power of Herod and from all that the Jewish people were expecting to do to me."

So, as they were sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia, and from that port sailed away to Cyprus.

He was an intimate friend of the governor, Sergius Paulus, who was an intelligent man. The governor sent for Barnabas and Saul and in this way tried to hear God's message.

After the reading of the law and the prophets, the leaders of the synagogue worship sent to them and said, "Brothers, if you have any message of encouragement for the people, you may speak."

Brothers, descendants of the race of Abraham, and all among you who reverence God, it is to us that the message of this salvation has been sent.

So they were endorsed and sent on by the church, and as they passed through Phoenicia and Samaria, they told of the conversion of the heathen and brought great rejoicing to all the brothers.

Then the apostles and elders in cooperation with the whole church passed a resolution to select and send some men of their number with Paul and Barnabas to Antioch. These were Judas, who was called Barsabbas, and Silas, leading men among the brothers.

They sent this letter by them: "The apostles and elders as brothers send greeting to the brothers from among the heathen in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia.

we have passed a unanimous resolution to select and send messengers to you with our beloved brothers Barnabas and Paul,

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

So the messengers were sent out, and they went down to Antioch, called a meeting of the congregation, and delivered the letter.

After spending some time there, they were sent back with a greeting to those who sent them.

When day broke, the chiefs of the police court sent policemen with the message to let the men go.

The jailer reported this message to Paul, saying, "The chiefs of the police court have sent orders to let you go. So now you may come out and go in peace."

That night at once the brothers sent Paul and Silas away to Berea, and on arriving there they went to the Jewish synagogue.

Then the brothers at once sent Paul off to the coast, while Silas and Timothy stayed on there.

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

Some of the public officials in Asia, who were friendly to him, also sent word to him, begging him not to risk himself in the theatre.

When the uproar had ceased, Paul sent for the disciples and encouraged them. Then he bade them goodbye and started off for Macedonia.

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

As for the heathen who have become believers, we have sent them our resolution that they must avoid anything that is contaminated by idols, the tasting of blood, the meat of strangled animals, and sexual immorality."

Then He said to me, 'Go, because I am to send you out and far away among the heathen.'"

So the colonel sent the young man away, with strict directions not to tell anybody that he had notified him of this plot.

Some days later, Felix came with his wife Drusilla, who was a Jewess, and sent for Paul and heard him talk about faith in Christ Jesus.

But as he continued to talk about uprightness, self-control, and the coming judgment, Felix became alarmed, and said, "For the present you may go, but when I find a good opportunity, I will send for you."

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

But I found that he had not done anything for which he deserved to die; however, as he has himself appealed to his Majesty, I have decided to send him up.

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