They were Pharisees who had been sent.

I did not yet know Him, but He who sent me to baptize in water said to me, "'The One on whom you see the Spirit coming down, and remaining, He it is who baptizes in the Holy Spirit.'

The wind blows where it chooses, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it is going. So is it with every one who has been born of the Spirit."

For God did not send His Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.

For He whom God has sent speaks God's words; for God does not give the Spirit with limitations."

"My food," said Jesus, "is to be obedient to Him who sent me, and fully to accomplish His work.

I sent you to reap a harvest which is not the result of your own labours. Others have laboured, and you are getting benefit from their labours."

that all may honour the Son even as they honour the Father. The man who withholds honour from the Son withholds honour from the Father who sent Him.

"In most solemn truth I tell you that he who listens to my teaching and believes Him who sent me, has the Life of the Ages, and does not come under judgement, but has passed over out of death into Life.

"I can of my own self do nothing. As I am bidden, so I judge; and mine is a just judgement, because it is not my own will that guides me, but the will of Him who sent me.

"You sent to John, and he both was and still is a witness to the truth.

"But the testimony which I have is weightier than that of John; for the work the Father has assigned to me for me to bring it to completion--the very work which I am doing--affords testimony concerning me that the Father has sent me.

And the Father who sent me, *He* has given testimony concerning me. None of you have ever either heard His voice or seen what He is like.

Nor have you His word dwelling within you, for you refuse to believe Him whom *He* has sent.

"This," replied Jesus, "is above all the thing that God requires--that you should be believers in Him whom He has sent."

For I have left Heaven and have come down to earth not to seek my own pleasure, but to do the will of Him who sent me.

And this is the will of Him who sent me, that of all that He has given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it to life on the last day.

"no one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him; then I will raise him to life on the last day.

As the ever-living Father has sent me, and I live because of the Father, so also he who eats me will live because of me.

Jesus answered their question by saying, "My teaching does not belong to me, but comes from Him who sent me.

The man whose teaching originates with himself aims at his own glory. He who aims at the glory of Him who sent him teaches the truth, and there is no deception in him.

Jesus therefore, while teaching in the Temple, cried aloud, and said, "Yes, you know me, and you know where I am from. And yet I have not come of my own accord; but there is One who has sent me, an Authority indeed, of whom you have no knowledge.

I know Him, because I came from Him, and He sent me."

The Pharisees heard the people thus expressing their various doubts about Him, and the High Priests and the Pharisees sent some officers to apprehend Him.

So Jesus said, "Still for a short time I am with you, and then I go my way to Him who sent me.

And even if I do judge, my judgement is just; for I am not alone, but the Father who sent me is with me.

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

"Many things I have to speak and to judge concerning you. But He who sent me is true, and the things which I have heard from Him are those which I have come into the world to speak."

And He who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone: for I do always what is pleasing to Him."

"If God were your Father," said Jesus, "you would love me; for it is from God that I came and I am now here. I have not come of myself, but *He* sent me.

We must do the works of Him who sent me while there is daylight. Night is coming on, when no one can work.

"Go and wash in the pool of Siloam" --the name means 'Sent.' So he went and washed his eyes, and returned able to see.

how is it that you say to one 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 to say, "Master, he whom you hold dear is ill."

I know that Thou always hearest me; but for the sake of the crowd standing round I have said this--that they may believe that Thou didst send me."

But Jesus cried aloud, "He who believes in me, believes not so much in me, as in Him who sent me;

and he who sees me sees Him who sent me.

Because I have not spoken on my own authority; but the Father who sent me, Himself gave me a command what to say and in what words to speak.

In most solemn truth I tell you that a servant is not superior to his master, nor is a messenger superior to him who sent him.

In most solemn truth I tell you that he who receives whoever I send receives me, and that he who receives me receives Him who sent me."

He who has no love for me does not obey my teaching; and yet the teaching to which you are listening is not mine, but is the teaching of the Father who sent me.

But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send at my request, will teach you everything, and will bring to your memories all that I have said to you.

But they will inflict all this suffering upon you on account of your bearing my name--because they do not know Him who sent me.

"When the Advocate is come whom I will send to you from the Father's presence--the Spirit of Truth who comes forth from the Father's presence--He will be a witness concerning me.

But now I an returning to Him who sent me; and not one of you asks me where I am going.

"Yet it is the truth that I am telling you--it is to your advantage that I go away. For unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you.

And in this consists the Life of the Ages--in knowing Thee the only true God and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent.

For the truths which Thou didst teach me I have taught them. And they have received them, and have known for certain that I came out from Thy presence, and have believed that Thou didst send me.

Just as Thou didst send me into the world, I also have sent them;

that they may all be one, even as Thou art in me, O Father, and I am in Thee; that they also may be in us; that the world may believe that Thou didst send me.

I in them and Thou in me; that they may stand perfected in one; that the world may come to understand that Thou didst send me and hast loved them with the same love as that with which Thou hast loved me.

And, righteous Father, though the world has failed to recognize Thee, I have known Thee, and these have perceived that Thou didst send me.

So Judas, followed by the battalion and by a detachment of the Temple police sent by the High Priests and Pharisees, came there with torches and lamps and weapons.

So Annas sent Him bound to Caiaphas the High Priest.

A second time, therefore, He said to them, "Peace be to you! As the Father sent me, I also now send you."

when suddenly there came from the sky a sound as of a strong rushing blast of wind. This filled the whole house where they were sitting;

It is His name-- faith in that name being the condition--which has strengthened this man whom you behold and know; and the faith which He has given has made this man sound and strong again, as you can all see.

and that He may send the Christ appointed beforehand for you--even Jesus.

It is to you first that God, after raising His Servant from the grave, has sent Him to bless you, by causing every one of you to turn from your wickedness."

Having received that command they went into the Temple, just before daybreak, and began to teach: So when the High Priest and his party came, and had called together the Sanhedrin as well as all the Elders of the descendants of Israel, they sent to the jail to fetch the Apostles.

But a Pharisee of the name of Gamaliel, a teacher of the Law, held in honour by all the people, rose from his seat and requested that they should be sent outside the court for a few minutes.

When, however, Jacob heard that there was wheat to be had, he sent our forefathers into Egypt; that was the first time.

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

I have seen, yes, I have seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt and have heard their groans, and I have come down to deliver them. And now I will send you to Egypt.'

When the Apostles in Jerusalem heard that the Samaritans had accepted God's Message, they sent Peter and John to visit them.

Meanwhile the men who travelled with Saul were standing dumb with amazement, hearing a sound, but seeing no one.

So Ananias went and entered the house; and, laying his two hands upon Saul, said, "Saul, brother, the Lord--even Jesus who appeared to you on your journey--has sent me, that you may recover your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit."

But they kept trying to take his life. On learning this, the brethren brought him down to Caesarea, and then sent him by sea to Tarsus.

Lud, however, being near Jaffa, the disciples, who had heard that Peter was at Lud, sent two men to him with an urgent request that he would come across to them without delay.

And now send to Jaffa and fetch Simon, surnamed Peter.

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

While Peter was greatly perplexed as to the meaning of the vision which he had seen, just then the men sent by Cornelius, having by inquiry found out Simon's house,

Rise, go down, and go with them without any misgivings; for it is I who have sent them to you."

Their reply was, "Cornelius, a Captain, an upright and God-fearing man, of whom the whole Jewish nation speaks well, has been divinely instructed by a holy angel to send for you to come to his house and listen to what you have to say."

So for this reason, when sent for, I came without raising any objection. I therefore ask why you sent for me."

Send therefore to Jaffa, and invite Simon, surnamed Peter, to come here. He is staying as a guest in the house of Simon, a tanner, close to the sea.'

"Immediately, therefore, I sent to you, and I thank you heartily for having come. That is why all of us are now assembled here in God's presence, to listen to what the Lord has commanded you to say."

The Message which He sent to the descendants of Israel, when He announced the Good News of peace through Jesus Christ--He is Lord of all--that Message you cannot but know;

"Now at that very moment three men came to the house where we were, having been sent from Caesarea to find me.

Then he described to us how he had seen the angel come and enter his house and say, "'Send to Jaffa and fetch Simon, surnamed Peter.

When tidings of this reached the ears of the Church in Jerusalem, they sent Barnabas as far as Antioch.

So the disciples decided to send relief, every one in proportion to his means, to the brethren living in Judaea.

Peter coming to himself said, "Now I know for certain that the Lord has sent His angel and has rescued me from the power of Herod and from all that the Jewish people were anticipating."

Now the people of Tyre and Sidon had incurred Herod's violent displeasure. So they sent a large deputation to wait on him; and having secured the good will of Blastus, his treasurer, they begged the king to be friendly with them again, because their country was dependent on his for its food supply.

They therefore, being thus sent out by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleuceia, and from there sailed to Cyprus.

who was a friend of the Proconsul Sergius Paulus. The Proconsul was a man of keen intelligence. He sent for Barnabas and Saul, and asked to be told God's Message.

After the reading of the Law and the Prophets, the Wardens of the synagogue sent word to them. "Brethren," they said, "if you have anything encouraging to say to the people, speak."

"Brethren, descendants of the family of Abraham, and all among you who fear God, to us has this Message of salvation been sent.

Yet let us send them written instructions to abstain from things polluted by connexion with idolatry, from fornication, from meat killed by strangling, and from blood.

Thereupon it was decided by the Apostles and Elders, with the approval of the whole Church, to choose suitable persons from among themselves and send them to Antioch, with Paul and Barnabas. Judas, called Bar-sabbas, and Silas, leading men among the brethren, were selected,

and they took with them the following letter: "The Apostles and the elder brethren send greeting to the Gentile brethren throughout Antioch, Syria and Cilicia.

we have unanimously decided to select certain men and send them to you in company with our dear friends Barnabas and Paul,

We have therefore sent Judas and Silas, who are themselves bringing you the same message by word of mouth.

They, therefore, having been solemnly sent, came down to Antioch, where they called together the whole assembly and delivered the letter.

After spending some time there they received an affectionate farewell from the brethren to return to those who had sent them.

In the morning the praetors sent their lictors with the order, "Release those men."

So the jailer brought Paul word, saying, "The praetors have sent orders for you to be released. Now therefore you can go, and proceed on your way in peace."

But Paul said to them, "After cruelly beating us in public, without trial, Roman citizens though we are, they have thrown us into prison, and are they now going to send us away privately? No, indeed! Let them come in person and fetch us out."

The brethren at once sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea, and they, on their arrival, went to the synagogue of the Jews.

Then the brethren promptly sent Paul down to the sea-coast, but Silas and Timothy remained behind.