'Sent' in the Bible

There was a man named Johnwho was sent from God.

This is John’s testimony when the Jews from Jerusalem sent priests and Levites to ask him, “Who are you?”

“Who are you, then?” they asked. “We need to give an answer to those who sent us. What can you tell us about yourself?”

Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.

I didn’t know Him, but He who sent me to baptize with water told me, ‘The One you see the Spirit descending and resting on—He is the One who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’

You yourselves can testify that I said, ‘I am not the Messiah, but I’ve been sent ahead of Him.’

For God sent Him, and He speaks God’s words, since He gives the Spirit without measure.

“My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work,” Jesus told them.

I sent you to reap what you didn’t labor for; others have labored, and you have benefited from their labor.”

so that all people will honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Anyone who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.

“I assure you: Anyone who hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment but has passed from death to life.

“I can do nothing on My own. I judge only as I hear, and My judgment is righteous, because I do not seek My own will, but the will of Him 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 of the works that the Father has given Me to accomplish. These very works I am doing testify about Me that the Father has sent Me.

The Father who sent Me has Himself testified about Me. You have not heard His voice at any time, and you haven’t seen His form.

You don’t have His word living in you, because you don’t believe the One He sent.

Jesus replied, “This is the work of God—that you believe in the One He has sent.”

For I have come down from heaven, not to do My will, but the will of Him who sent Me.

This is the will of Him who sent Me: that I should lose none of those He has given Me but should raise them up on the last day.

No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him, and I will raise him up 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 live because of Me.

Jesus answered them, “My teaching isn’t Mine but is from the One who sent Me.

The one who speaks for himself seeks his own glory. But He who seeks the glory of the One who sent Him is true, and there is no unrighteousness in Him.

As He was teaching in the temple complex, Jesus cried out, “You know Me and you know where I am from. Yet I have not come on My own, but the One who sent Me is true. You don’t know Him;

I know Him because I am from Him, and He sent Me.”

The Pharisees heard the crowd muttering these things about Him, so the chief priests and the Pharisees sent temple police to arrest Him.

Then Jesus said, “I am only with you for a short time. Then I’m going to the One who sent Me.

And if I do judge, My judgment is true, because I am not alone, but I and the Father who sent Me judge together.

I am the One who testifies about Myself, and the Father who sent Me testifies about Me.”

“I have many things to say and to judge about you, but the One who sent Me is true, and what I have heard from Him—these things I tell the world.”

The One who sent Me is with Me. He has not left Me alone, because I always do what pleases Him.”

Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, because I came from God and I am here. For I didn’t come on My own, but He sent Me.

We must do the works of Him who sent Me while it is day. Night is coming when no one can work.

“Go,” He told him, “wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means “Sent”). So he left, washed, and came back seeing.

do you say, ‘You are blaspheming’ to the One the Father set apart and sent into the world, because I said: I am the Son of God?

So the sisters sent a message to Him: “Lord, the one You love is sick.”

I know that You always hear Me, but because of the crowd standing here I said this, so they may believe You sent Me.”

Then Jesus cried out, “The one who believes in Me believes not in Me, but in Him who sent Me.

And the one who sees Me sees Him who sent Me.

For I have not spoken on My own, but the Father Himself who sent Me has given Me a command as to what I should say and what I should speak.

“I assure you: A slave is not greater than his master, and a messenger is not greater than the one who sent him.

I assure you: Whoever receives anyone I send receives Me, and the one who receives Me receives Him who sent Me.”

The one who doesn’t love Me will not keep My words. The word that you hear is not Mine but is from the Father who sent Me.

But they will do all these things to you on account of My name, because they don’t know the One who sent Me.

“But now I am going away to Him who sent Me, and not one of you asks Me, ‘Where are You going?’

This is eternal life:that they may know You, the only true God,and the One You have sent—Jesus Christ.

because the words that You gave Me,I have given them.They have received themand have known for certainthat I came from You.They have believed that You sent Me.

As You sent Me into the world,I also have sent them into the world.

May they all be one,as You, Father, are in Me and I am in You.May they also be one in Us,so the world may believe You sent Me.

I am in them and You are in Me.May they be made completely one,so the world may know You have sent Meand have loved them as You have loved Me.

Righteous Father!The world has not known You.However, I have known You,and these have known that You sent Me.

Then Annas sent Him bound to Caiaphas the high priest.

Jesus said to them again, “Peace to you! As the Father has sent Me, I also send you.”