Isaiah 48:16
48:16 Approach me! Listen to this!
From the very first I have not spoken in secret;
when it happens, I am there.”
So now, the sovereign Lord has sent me, accompanied by his spirit.
Zechariah 2:8-11
2:8 For the
Lord who rules over all says to me that for his own glory
he has sent me to the nations that plundered you – for anyone who touches you touches the pupil
of his
eye.
2:9 “I am about to punish them
in such a way,” he says, “that they will be looted by their own slaves.” Then you will know that the
Lord who rules over all has sent me.
2:10 “Sing out and be happy, Zion my daughter! For look, I have come; I will settle in your midst,” says the Lord.
2:11 “Many nations will join themselves to the Lord on the day of salvation, and they will also be my people. Indeed, I will settle in the midst of you all.” Then you will know that the Lord who rules over all has sent me to you.
John 3:16
3:16 For this is the way God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.
John 6:38
6:38 For I have come down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of the one who sent me.
John 8:42
8:42 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.
John 10:36
10:36 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’?
John 10:1
Jesus as the Good Shepherd
10:1 “I tell you the solemn truth, the one who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a robber.
John 4:9-10
4:9 So the Samaritan woman said to him, “How can you – a Jew
– ask me, a Samaritan woman, for water
to drink?” (For Jews use nothing in common
with Samaritans.)
4:10 Jesus answered her, “If you had known the gift of God and who it is who said to you, ‘Give me some water to drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”
John 4:14
4:14 But whoever drinks some of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again,
but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain
of water springing up
to eternal life.”