we have unanimously decided to choose men to send to you along with our dear friends Barnabas and Paul,

For it seems unreasonable to me to send a prisoner without clearly indicating the charges against him.”

Then, when I arrive, I will send those whom you approve with letters of explanation to carry your gift to Jerusalem.

Now I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, so that I too may be encouraged by hearing news about you.

Therefore I am all the more eager to send him, so that when you see him again you can rejoice and I can be free from anxiety.

Consequently God sends on them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false.

When I send Artemas or Tychicus to you, do your best to come to me at Nicopolis, for I have decided to spend the winter there.

The king was furious! He sent his soldiers, and they put those murderers to death and set their city on fire.

So he went and worked for one of the citizens of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs.

Then the owner of the vineyard said, ‘What should I do? I will send my one dear son; perhaps they will respect him.’

Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of the one who sent me and to complete his work.

And the Father who sent me has himself testified about me. You people have never heard his voice nor seen his form at any time,

For I have come down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of the one who sent me.

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.

So Jesus replied, “My teaching is not from me, but from the one who sent me.

But if I judge, my evaluation is accurate, because I am not alone when I judge, but I and the Father who sent me do so together.

And the one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, because I always do those things that please him.”

We must perform the deeds of the one who sent me as long as it is daytime. Night is coming when no one can work.

But Jesus shouted out, “The one who believes in me does not believe in me, but in the one who sent me,

For I have not spoken from my own authority, but the Father himself who sent me has commanded me what I should say and what I should speak.