and said to them, "Whoever welcomes this child in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me, for the one who is least among you all is the one who is great."

He sent messengers on ahead of him. As they went along, they entered a Samaritan village to make things ready in advance for him,

After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them on ahead of him two by two into every town and place where he himself was about to go.

He said to them, "The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Therefore ask the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into his harvest.

"The one who listens to you listens to me, and the one who rejects you rejects me, and the one who rejects me rejects the one who sent me."

For this reason also the wisdom of God said, 'I will send them prophets and apostles, some of whom they will kill and persecute,'

I tell you, you will never get out of there until you have paid the very last cent!"

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you! How often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would have none of it!

But they remained silent. So Jesus took hold of the man, healed him, and sent him away.

At the time for the banquet he sent his slave to tell those who had been invited, 'Come, because everything is now ready.'

If he cannot succeed, he will send a representative while the other is still a long way off and ask for terms of peace.

So he went and worked for one of the citizens of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs.

The slave replied, 'Your brother has returned, and your father has killed the fattened calf because he got his son back safe and sound.'

So he called out, 'Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in anguish in this fire.'

So the rich man said, 'Then I beg you, father -- send Lazarus to my father's house

But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, 'We do not want this man to be king over us!'

Now when he approached Bethphage and Bethany, at the place called the Mount of Olives, he sent two of the disciples,

So those who were sent ahead found it exactly as he had told them.

When harvest time came, he sent a slave to the tenants so that they would give him his portion of the crop. However, the tenants beat his slave and sent him away empty-handed.

So he sent another slave. They beat this one too, treated him outrageously, and sent him away empty-handed.

So he sent still a third. They even wounded this one, and threw him out.

Then the owner of the vineyard said, 'What should I do? I will send my one dear son; perhaps they will respect him.'

Then they watched him carefully and sent spies who pretended to be sincere. They wanted to take advantage of what he might say so that they could deliver him up to the authority and jurisdiction of the governor.

Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, "Go and prepare the Passover for us to eat."

Then Jesus said to them, "When I sent you out with no money bag, or traveler's bag, or sandals, you didn't lack anything, did you?" They replied, "Nothing."

When he learned that he was from Herod's jurisdiction, he sent him over to Herod, who also happened to be in Jerusalem at that time.

Even Herod with his soldiers treated him with contempt and mocked him. Then, dressing him in elegant clothes, Herod sent him back to Pilate.

Neither did Herod, for he sent him back to us. Look, he has done nothing deserving death.

A man came, sent from God, whose name was John.

Now this was John's testimony when the Jewish leaders sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, "Who are you?"

Then they said to him, "Who are you? Tell us so that we can give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?"

(Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.)

And I did not recognize him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water said to me, 'The one on whom you see the Spirit descending and remaining -- this is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.'

The wind blows wherever it will, and you hear the sound it makes, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit."

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

You yourselves can testify that I said, 'I am not the Christ,' but rather, 'I have been sent before him.'

For the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for he does not give the Spirit sparingly.

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

I sent you to reap what you did not work for; others have labored and you have entered into their labor."

so that all people will honor the Son just as they honor the Father. The one who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.

"I tell you the solemn truth, the one who hears my message and believes the one who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned, but has crossed over from death to life.

I can do nothing on my own initiative. Just as I hear, I judge, 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 to John, and he has testified to the truth.

"But I have a testimony greater than that from John. For the deeds that the Father has assigned me to complete -- the deeds I am now doing -- testify about me that the Father has sent me.

And the Father who sent me has himself testified about me. You people have never heard his voice nor seen his form at any time,

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

Jesus replied, "This is the deed God requires -- to believe in the one whom he sent."

Everyone whom the Father gives me will come to me, and the one who comes to me I will never send away.

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

Now this is the will of the one who sent me -- that I should not lose one person of every one he has given me, but raise them all up at the last day.

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

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

So Jesus replied, "My teaching is not from me, but from the one who sent me.

The person who speaks on his own authority desires to receive honor for himself; the one who desires the honor of the one who sent him is a man of integrity, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

Then Jesus, while teaching in the temple courts, cried out, "You both know me and know where I come from! And I have not come on my own initiative, but the one who sent me is true. You do not know him,

but I know him, because I have come from him and he sent me."

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

Then Jesus said, "I will be with you for only a little while longer, and then I am going to the one who sent me.

But if I judge, my evaluation is accurate, because I am not alone when I judge, but I and the Father who sent me do so together.

I testify about myself and the Father who sent me testifies about me."

I have many things to say and to judge about you, but the Father who sent me is truthful, and the things I have heard from him I speak to the world."

And the one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, because I always do those things that please him."

Jesus replied, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come from God and am now here. I have not come on my own initiative, but he sent me.

We must perform the deeds of the one who sent me as long as it is daytime. Night is coming when no one can work.

and said to him, "Go wash in the pool of Siloam" (which is translated "sent"). So the blind man went away and washed, and came back seeing.

do you say about the one whom the Father set apart and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God'?

So the sisters sent a message to Jesus, "Lord, look, the one you love is sick."

I knew that you always listen to me, but I said this for the sake of the crowd standing around here, that they may believe that you sent me."

But Jesus shouted out, "The one who believes in me does not believe in me, but in the one who sent me,

and the one who sees me sees the one who sent me.

For I have not spoken from my own authority, but the Father himself who sent me has commanded me what I should say and what I should speak.

I tell you the solemn truth, the slave is not greater than his master, nor is the one who is sent as a messenger greater than the one who sent him.

I tell you the solemn truth, whoever accepts the one I send accepts me, and whoever accepts me accepts the one who sent me."

The person who does not love me does not obey my words. And the word you hear is not mine, but the Father's who sent me.

But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything, and will cause you to remember everything I said to you.

But 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 Advocate comes, whom I will send you from the Father -- the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father -- he will testify about me,

But now I am going to the one who sent me, and not one of you is asking me, 'Where are you going?'

But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I am going away. For if I do not go away, the Advocate will not come to you, but if I go, I will send him to you.

Now this is eternal life -- that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you sent.

because I have given them the words you have given me. They accepted them and really understand that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me.

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

that they will all be one, just as you, Father, are in me and I am in you. I pray that they will be in us, so that the world will believe that you sent me.

I in them and you in me -- that they may be completely one, so that the world will know that you sent me, and you have loved them just as you have loved me.

Righteous Father, even if the world does not know you, I know you, and these men know that you sent me.

Then Annas sent him, still tied up, to Caiaphas the high priest.

So Jesus said to them again, "Peace be with you. Just as the Father has sent me, I also send you."

Suddenly a sound like a violent wind blowing came from heaven and filled the entire house where they were sitting.

When this sound occurred, a crowd gathered and was in confusion, because each one heard them speaking in his own language.

so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and so that he may send the Messiah appointed for you -- that is, Jesus.

God raised up his servant and sent him first to you, to bless you by turning each one of you from your iniquities."

When they heard this, they entered the temple courts at daybreak and began teaching. Now when the high priest and those who were with him arrived, they summoned the Sanhedrin -- that is, the whole high council of the Israelites -- and sent to the jail to have the apostles brought before them.

So when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our ancestors there the first time.

So Joseph sent a message and invited his father Jacob and all his relatives to come, seventy-five people in all.

I have certainly seen the suffering of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their groaning, and I have come down to rescue them. Now come, I will send you to Egypt.'

This same Moses they had rejected, saying, 'Who made you a ruler and judge?' God sent as both ruler and deliverer through the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

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

So Ananias departed and entered the house, placed his hands on Saul and said, "Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road as you came here, has sent me so that you may see again and be filled with the Holy Spirit."

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

Because Lydda was near Joppa, when the disciples heard that Peter was there, they sent two men to him and urged him, "Come to us without delay."