He also sent them to Bethlehem, telling them, "Go and make a careful search for the child, and when you have found him report to me, so that I may go and worship him too."

Then Herod saw the magicians had trifled with him, and he was furiously angry; he sent and slew all the male children in Bethlehem and in all the neighbourhood who were two years old or under, calculating by the time he had ascertained from the magicians.

every good tree bears sound fruit, but a rotten tree bears bad fruit;

a good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a rotten tree cannot bear sound fruit.

[Relocated to follow vs 20] Any tree that does not produce sound fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.

And everyone who listens to these words of mine and does not act upon them will be like a stupid man who built his house on sand.

so the daemons begged him saying, "If you are going to cast us out, send us into that drove of swine."

so pray the Lord of the harvest to send labourers to gather his harvest."

He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives Him who sent me.

Now when John heard in prison what the Christ was doing, he sent his disciples

This is he of whom it is written, Here I send my messenger before your face to prepare the way for you.

Then he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out, and it was quite restored, as sound as the other.

he sent and had John beheaded in the prison,

When evening fell, the disciples came up to him and said, "It is a desert place and the day is now gone; send off the crowds to buy food for themselves in the villages."

The men of that place recognized him and sent all over the surrounding country, bringing him all who were ill

But he made no answer to her. Then his disciples came up and pressed him, saying, "Send her away, she is wailing behind us."

He replied, "It was only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel that I was sent."

Then Jesus called his disciples and said, "I am sorry for the crowd; they have been three days with me now, and they have nothing to eat. I will not send them away starving, in case they faint on the road."

Then he sent the crowd away, got into the boat and went to the territory of Magadan.

and after agreeing with the labourers to pay them a shilling a day he sent them into his vineyard.

When the fruit-season was near, he sent his servants to the vinedressers to collect his fruit;

Once more he sent some other servants, more than he had sent at first, and they did the same to them.

Afterwards he sent them his son; 'They will respect my son,' he said.

He sent his servants to summon the invited guests to the feast, but they would not come.

Once more he sent some other servants, saying, 'Tell the invited guests, here is my supper all prepared, my oxen and fat cattle are killed, everything is ready; come to the marriage-banquet.'

The king was enraged; he sent his troops and destroyed those murderers and burned up their city.

They sent him their disciples with the Herodians, who said, "Teacher, we know you are sincere and that you teach the Way of God honestly and fearlessly; you do not court human favour.

This is why I will send you prophets, wise men, and scribes, some of whom you will kill and crucify, some of whom you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from town to town;

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem! slaying the prophets and stoning those who have been sent to you! How often I would fain have gathered your children as a fowl gathers her brood under her wings! But you would not have it!

Besides, when he was seated on the tribunal, his wife had sent to tell him, "Do nothing with that innocent man, for I have suffered greatly to-day in a dream about him.")

As it is written in the prophet Isaiah, Here I send my messenger before your face to prepare the way for you:

Then he sent him off at once with the stern charge,

Then came his brothers and his mother, and standing outside they sent to call him;

And they begged him earnestly not to send them out of the country.

so the spirits begged him saying, "Send us into the swine, that we may enter them,"

And summoning the twelve he proceeded to send them out two by two; he gave them power over the unclean spirits,

For this Herod had sent and arrested John and bound him in prison on account of his marriage to Herodias the wife of his brother Philip;

so the king at once sent one of the guard with orders to bring his head. The man went and beheaded him in the prison,

send them off to the farms and villages round about to buy some food for themselves."

If I send them home without food they will faint on the road. Besides, some of them have come a long way."

(There were about four thousand of them.) Then he sent them away,

And Jesus sent him home, saying, "Do not go even into the village."

"Whoever receives one of these little ones in my name receives me, and whoever receives me receives not me but him who sent me."

If anyone asks you, 'Why are you doing that?' say, 'The Lord needs it,' and he will send it back immediately."

When the season came round he sent a servant to the vine dressers to collect from the vine dressers some of the produce of the vineyard,

but they took and flogged him and sent him off with nothing.

Once more he sent them another servant; him they knocked on the head and insulted.

He sent another, but they killed him. And so they treated many others; some they flogged and some they killed.

He had still one left, a beloved son; he sent him to them last, saying, 'They will respect my son.'

But they sent some of the Pharisees and Herodians to him for the purpose of catching him with a question.

while they went out and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming the word by the miracles that endorsed it. (b) But they gave Peter and his companions a brief account of all these injunctions. And, after that, Jesus himself sent out by means of them from east to west the sacred and imperishable message of eternal salvation.

The angel replied, "I am Gabriel, I stand before God; I have been sent to speak to you and to tell you this good news.

In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazaret,

Why, as soon as the sound of your salutation reached my ears, the babe leapt for joy within my womb.

he has satisfied the hungry with good things and sent the rich away empty.

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me: for he has consecrated me to preach the gospel to the poor, he has sent me to proclaim release for captives and recovery of sight for the blind, to set free the oppressed,

yet Elijah was not sent to any of these, but only to a widow woman at Zarephath in Sidon.

He answered them, "I must preach the glad news of the Reign of God to the other towns as well, for that is what I was sent to do."

No sound tree bears rotten fruit, nor again does a rotten tree bear sound fruit:

so, when the captain heard about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders to him, asking him to come and make his servant well.

So Jesus went with them. But he was not far from the house when the captain sent some friends to tell him, "Do not trouble yourself, sir, I am not fit to have you under my roof,

So John summoned two of his disciples and sent them to ask the Lord, "Are you the Coming One? Or are we to look out for someone else?"

When the men reached Jesus they said, "John the Baptist has sent us to you to ask if you are the Coming One or if we are to look out for someone else?"

This is he of whom it is written, Here I send my messenger before your face, to prepare the way for you.

some other seed fell on sound soil, and springing up bore a crop, a hundredfold." When he said this he called out, "He who has an ear, let him listen to this."

As for the seed in the good soil, that means those who hear and hold fast the word in a good and sound heart and so bear fruit stedfastly.

The man whom the daemons had left begged that he might accompany him. Jesus, however, sent him away, saying,

He sent them out to preach the Reign of God and to cure the sick.

Now as the day began to decline the twelve came up to him and said, "Send the crowd off to lodge in the villages and farms around and get provisions there, for here we are in a desert place."

then he said to them, "Whoever receives this little child in my name receives me, and whoever receives me receives him who sent me. For it is the lowliest of you all who is great."

He sent messengers in front of him. They went and entered a Samaritan village to make preparations for him,

He said to them, "The harvest is rich, but the labourers are few; so pray the Lord of the harvest to send labourers to gather his harvest.

He who listens to you listens to me, he who rejects you rejects me, and he who rejects me rejects him who sent me."

Your eye is the lamp of the body: when your eye is sound, then the whole of your body has light, but if your eye is diseased, then your body is darkened.

This is why the Wisdom of God said, 'I will send them prophets and apostles, some they will kill and some they will persecute';

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, slaying the prophets and stoning those who have been sent to you! How often I would fain have gathered your children as a fowl gathers her brood under her wings! But you would not have it!

They held their peace. Then Jesus took hold of the man and cured him and sent him off.

At the hour for supper he sent his servant to tell the guests, 'Come, things are all ready.'

If he cannot, when the other is still at a distance he will send an embassy to do homage to him.

so he went and attached himself to a citizen of that land, who sent him to his fields to feed swine.

The servant told him, 'Your brother has arrived, and your father has killed the fatted calf because he has got him back safe and sound.'

so he called out, 'Father Abraham, take pity on me, send Lazarus to dip his fingertip in water and cool my tongue, for I am in anguish in these flames.'

Then he said, 'Well, father, I beg you to send him to my father's house,

Now his people hated him and sent envoys after him to say, 'We object to him having royal power over us.'

When the season came round he sent a servant to the vine dressers to receive part of the produce of the vineyard, but the vinedressers flogged him and sent him off with nothing.

He proceeded to send another servant, and they flogged him too, insulted him and sent him off with nothing.

Then he sent still a third, but this one they wounded and threw outside.

Said the owner of the vineyard, 'What shall I do? I will send my beloved son; perhaps they will respect him.'

So watching their chance they sent spies who pretended to be honest persons, in order to seize on what he said and get him handed over to the authority and jurisdiction of the governor.

And he said to them, "When I sent you out with neither purse nor wallet nor sandals, did you want for anything?" "No," they said, "for nothing."

And I will send down on you what my Father has promised; wait in the city till you are endued with power from on high."

A man appeared, sent by God, whose name was John:

"Then who are you?" they said; "tell us, so that we can give some answer to those who sent us. What have you to say for yourself?"

Now it was some of the Pharisees who had been sent to him;

I myself did not recognize him, but He who sent me to baptize with water told me, 'He on whom you see the Spirit descending and resting, that is he who baptizes with the holy Spirit.'

The wind blows where it wills; you can hear its sound, but you never know where it has come from or where it goes: it is the same with everyone who is born of the Spirit."

God did not send his Son into the world to pass sentence on it, but to save the world by him.

You can bear me out, that I said, 'I am not the Christ'; what I said was, 'I have been sent in advance of him.'

He who has the bride is the bridegroom; the bridegroom's friend, who stands by and listens to him, is heartily glad at the sound of the bridegroom's voice. Such is my joy, and it is complete.

For he whom God has sent utters the words of God ??God gives him the Spirit in no sparing measure;