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

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

Then he said to me, ‘Go, because I will send you far away to the Gentiles.’”

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

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

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.

A report about them came to the attention of the church in Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas to Antioch.

Brothers, descendants of Abraham’s family, and those Gentiles among you who fear God, the message of this salvation has been sent to us.

Then the brothers sent Paul away to the coast at once, but Silas and Timothy remained in Berea.

But when the appropriate time had come, God sent out his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

And because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, who calls “Abba! Father!”

And look, I am sending you what my Father promised. But stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.”

When Peter came to himself, he said, “Now I know for certain that the Lord has sent his angel and rescued me from the hand of Herod and from everything the Jewish people were expecting to happen.”

They went out and proclaimed everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the word through the accompanying signs.]]