"Who are you?" they asked him. "We must give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?"

Now those men had been sent from the Pharisees.

I didn't recognize him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water told me, "The person on whom you see the Spirit descending and remaining is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.'

Because God sent the Son into the world, not to condemn the world, but that the world would be saved through him.

You yourselves are my witnesses that I said, "I am not the Messiah, but I have been sent ahead of him.'

The one whom God sent speaks the words of God, because God does not give the Spirit in limited measure to him.

Jesus told them, "My food is doing the will of the one who sent me and completing his work.

I have sent you to harvest what you have not worked for. Others have worked, and you have adopted their work as your own."

so that everyone may honor the Son as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.

"Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, whoever hears what I say and believes in the one who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged, but has passed from death to life.

I can do nothing on my own accord. I judge according to what I hear, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will but the will of the one who sent me."

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

"But I have a greater testimony than John's, because the actions that the Father has given me to complete the very actions that I am doing testify on my behalf that the Father has sent me.

Moreover, the Father who sent me has himself testified on my behalf. You have never heard his voice or seen what he looks like,

nor do you have his word at work in you, because you do not believe in the one whom he sent.

Jesus answered them, "This is God's work: to believe in the one whom he has sent."

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

And this is the will of the one who sent me, that I should not lose anything that he has given me, but should raise it to life on the last day.

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him to life on the last day.

Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will also live because of me.

Jesus replied to them, "My teaching is not mine but comes from the one who sent me.

The one who speaks on his own seeks his own praise. But the one who seeks the praise of him who sent him is genuine, and there's nothing false in him.

At this point Jesus, still teaching in the Temple, shouted, "So you know me and know where I've come from? I haven't come on my own accord. But the one who sent me is true, and he's the one you don't know.

I know him because I've come from him, and he sent me."

The Pharisees heard the crowd debating these things about him, so the high priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest Jesus.

Then Jesus said, "I'll be with you only a little while longer, and then I'm going back to the one who sent me.

Yet even if I should judge, my judgment would be valid, because it is not I alone who judges, but I and the one who sent me.

I'm testifying about myself, and the Father who sent me is testifying about me."

Jesus told them, "What have I been telling you all along? I have much to say about you and to condemn you for. But the one who sent me is truthful, and what I've heard from him I declare to the world."

Moreover, the one who sent me is with me. He has never left me alone, because I always do what pleases him."

Jesus told them, "If God were your Father, you would've loved me, because I came from God and am here. I haven't come on my own accord, but he sent me.

I must do the work of the one who sent me while it is day. Night is approaching, when no one can work.

and told him, "Go and wash in the pool of Siloam" (which is translated "Sent One"). So he went off, washed, and came back seeing.

how can you say to the one whom the Father has consecrated and sent into the world, "You're blaspheming,' because I said, "I'm the Son of God'?

So the sisters sent word to Jesus and told him, "Lord, the one whom you love is ill."

Then Jesus looked upward and said, "Father, I thank you for hearing me. I know that you always hear me, but I have said this for the sake of the crowd standing here, so that they may believe that you sent me."

Then Jesus said loudly, "The one who believes in me does not believe in me only, but also in the one who sent me.

The one who sees me sees the one who sent me.

because I haven't spoken on my own authority. Instead, the Father who sent me has himself commanded me what to say and how to speak.

Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, a servant isn't greater than his master, and a messenger isn't greater than the one who sent him.

Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, the one who receives whomever I send receives me, and the one who receives me receives the one who sent me."

The one who doesn't love me doesn't keep my words. The words that you're hearing me say are not mine, but come from the Father who sent me.

But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and remind you of everything that I have told you.

They will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me.

"When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father the Spirit of Truth, who comes from the Father he will testify on my behalf.

"But now I am going to the one who sent me. Yet none of you asks me, "Where are you going?'

However, I'm telling you the truth. It's for your advantage that I'm going away, because if I don't go away, the Helper won't come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.

And this is eternal life: to know you, the only true God, and the one whom you sent Jesus the Messiah.

because the words that you gave me I passed on to them. They have received them and know for sure that I came from you. They have believed that you sent me.

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

so that they may all be one. Just as you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be one in us, so that the world may believe that you sent me.

I am in them, and you are in me. May they be completely one, so that the world may know that you sent me and that you have loved them as you loved me.

"Righteous Father, the world has never known you. Yet I have known you, and these men have known that you sent me.

Then Annas sent him, with his hands tied, to Caiaphas the high priest.

Jesus told them again, "Peace be with you. Just as the Father has sent me, so I am sending you."

so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord and so that he may send you Jesus, whom he appointed long ago to be the Messiah.

When God raised up his servant, he sent him first to you to bless you by turning every one of you from your evil ways."

After the apostles heard this, they went into the Temple at daybreak and began to teach. The high priest and those who were with him arrived, called the Council and all the elders of Israel together, and sent word to the prison to have the men brought in.

But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our ancestors on their first trip.

I have surely seen the oppression of my people in Egypt, I've heard their groans, and I've come down to rescue them. Now come, I'll send you to Egypt.'

"This same Moses whom they rejected by saying, "Who made you ruler and judge?' was the man whom God sent to be both their ruler and deliverer with the help of the angel who had appeared to him in the bush.

Now when the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaritans had accepted the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them.

So Ananias left and went to that house. He laid his hands on Saul and said, "Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road as you were traveling, has sent me so that you may see again and be filled with the Holy Spirit."

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

Since Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples heard that Peter was there and sent two men to him and begged him, "Come here quickly!"

The angel answered him, "Your prayers and your gifts to the poor have arisen as a reminder to God. Send men now to Joppa and summon Simon, who is called Peter.

He explained everything to them and sent them to Joppa.

While Peter was still at a loss to know what the vision he had seen could mean, the men sent by Cornelius asked for Simon's house and went to the gate.

Get up, go downstairs, and don't hesitate to go with them, for I have sent them."

The men replied, "Cornelius, a centurion and an upright and God-fearing man who is respected by the whole Jewish nation, was instructed by a holy angel to send for you to come to his home to hear what you have to say."

and that is why I didn't hesitate when I was sent for. Now may I ask why you sent for me?"

so send messengers to Joppa and summon Simon, who is called Peter, to come to you. He is a guest in the home of Simon, a leatherworker, by the sea.'

So I sent for you immediately, and it was good of you to come. All of us are here now in the presence of God to listen to everything the Lord has ordered you to say."

He has sent his word to the descendants of Israel and brought them the good news of peace through Jesus the Messiah. This man is the Lord of everyone.

"At that very moment three men arrived at the house where we were staying. They had been sent to me from Caesarea.

Then he told us how he had seen an angel standing in his home and saying, "Send messengers to Joppa and summon Simon, who is called Peter.

When the church in Jerusalem heard this news, they sent Barnabas all the way to Antioch.

So all of the disciples decided they would send a contribution to the brothers living in Judea, as they were able,

Then Peter came to himself and said, "Now I'm sure that the Lord has sent his angel and rescued me from Herod and from everything the Jewish people were expecting!"

After they had been sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went to Seleucia and from there sailed to Cyprus.

He was associated with the proconsul Sergius Paulus, who was an intelligent man. He sent for Barnabas and Saul because he wanted to hear the word of God.

"My brothers, descendants of Abraham's family, and those among you who fear God, it is to us that the message of this salvation has been sent.

They were sent on their way by the church, and as they were going through Phoenicia and Samaria they told of the conversion of the gentiles and brought great joy to all the brothers.

Then the apostles, the elders, and the whole church decided to choose some of their men to send with Paul and Barnabas to Antioch. These were Judas, who was called Barsabbas, and Silas, who were leaders among the brothers.

So we have unanimously decided to choose men and send them to you with our dear Barnabas and Paul,

We have therefore sent Judas and Silas to tell you the same things by word of mouth.

So the men were sent on their way and arrived in Antioch. They gathered the congregation together and delivered the letter.

After staying there for some time, they were sent back with a greeting from the brothers to those who had sent them.

When day came, the magistrates sent guards, who commanded, "Release those men."

The jailer reported these words to Paul, and added, "The magistrates have sent word to release you. So come out now and go in peace."

That night the brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away to Berea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue.

Then the brothers immediately sent Paul away to the coast, but Silas and Timothy stayed there.

Then he sent two of his helpers, Timothy and Erastus, to Macedonia, while he himself stayed in Asia a while longer.

Even some officials of the province of Asia who were his friends sent him a message urging him not to risk his life in the theater.

When the uproar was over, Paul sent for the disciples and encouraged them. Then he said goodbye to them and left to go to Macedonia.

From Miletus he sent messengers to Ephesus to ask the elders of the church to meet with him.

As for the gentiles who have become believers, we have sent a letter with our decision that they should keep away from food that has been sacrificed to idols, from blood, from anything strangled, and from sexual immorality."

"Then he told me, "Go, because I'll send you far away to the gentiles.'"

Some days later, Felix arrived with his wife Drusilla, who was Jewish. He sent for Paul and listened to him talk about faith in Jesus the Messiah.

As Paul talked about righteousness, self-control, and the coming judgment, Felix became afraid and said, "For the present you may go. When I get a chance, I will send for you again."