Now I have sent Tychicus to Ephesus.

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

But those tenants seized his slave, beat him, and sent him away empty-handed.

(Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.)

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.

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and the regaining of sight to the blind, to set free those who are oppressed,

Again he sent other slaves, more than the first, and they treated them the same way.

He begged Jesus repeatedly not to send them out of the region.

So the king sent an executioner at once to bring John’s head, and he went and beheaded John in prison.

Jesus sent him home, saying, “Do not even go into the village.”

So he sent another slave to them again. This one they struck on the head and treated outrageously.

and he sent them out to proclaim the kingdom of God and to heal the sick.

Go! I am sending you out like lambs surrounded by wolves.

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

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

You have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth.

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

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

and when he had explained everything to them, he sent them to Joppa.