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

So the sisters sent a message to Jesus, “Lord, look, the one you love is sick.”

At daybreak the magistrates sent their police officers, saying, “Release those men.”

When the people there recognized him, they sent word into all the surrounding area, and they brought all their sick to him.

Then Jesus’ mother and his brothers came. Standing outside, they sent word to him, to summon him.

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

The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things about Jesus, so the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.

Now when the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them.

Then they watched him carefully and sent spies who pretended to be sincere. They wanted to take advantage of what he might say so that they could deliver him up to the authority and jurisdiction of the governor.

Now this was John’s testimony when the Jewish leaders sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?”

Because Lydda was near Joppa, when the disciples heard that Peter was there, they sent two men to him and urged him, “Come to us without delay.”

After the reading from the law and the prophets, the leaders of the synagogue sent them a message, saying, “Brothers, if you have any message of exhortation for the people, speak it.”

When they heard this, they entered the temple courts at daybreak and began teaching. Now when the high priest and those who were with him arrived, they summoned the Sanhedrin – that is, the whole high council of the Israelites – and sent to the jail to have the apostles brought before them.