“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,

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.

He sent messengers on ahead of him. As they went along, they entered a Samaritan village to make things ready in advance for him,

Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, “Go and prepare the Passover for us to eat.”

In the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy, the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town of Galilee called Nazareth,

But Jesus said to them, “I must proclaim the good news of the kingdom of God to the other towns too, for that is what I was sent to do.”

When the centurion heard about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders to him, asking him to come and heal his slave.

This is the one about whom it is written, ‘Look, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way before you.’

“The one who listens to you listens to me, and the one who rejects you rejects me, and the one who rejects me rejects the one who sent me.”

For this reason also the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles, some of whom they will kill and persecute,’

At the time for the banquet he sent his slave to tell those who had been invited, ‘Come, because everything is now ready.’

But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to be king over us!’

Now when he approached Bethphage and Bethany, at the place called the Mount of Olives, he sent two of the disciples,

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.

Then Jesus said to them, “When I sent you out with no money bag, or traveler’s bag, or sandals, you didn’t lack anything, did you?” They replied, “Nothing.”

The angel answered him, “I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God, and I was sent to speak to you and to bring you this good news.

When the men came to Jesus, they said, “John the Baptist has sent us to you to ask, ‘Are you the one who is to come, or should we look for another?’”