do you say about the one whom the Father set apart and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?

I knew that you always listen to me, but I said this for the sake of the crowd standing around here, that they may believe that you sent me.”

Now this is eternal life – that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you sent.

Righteous Father, even if the world does not know you, I know you, and these men know that you sent me.

So Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. Just as the Father has sent me, I also send you.”

God raised up his servant and sent him first to you, to bless you by turning each one of you from your iniquities.”

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

At that very moment, three men sent to me from Caesarea approached the house where we were staying.

The jailer reported these words to Paul, saying, “The magistrates have sent orders to release you. So come out now and go in peace.”

So after sending two of his assistants, Timothy and Erastus, to Macedonia, he himself stayed on for a while in the province of Asia.

But regarding the Gentiles who have believed, we have written a letter, having decided that they should avoid meat that has been sacrificed to idols and blood and what has been strangled and sexual immorality.”

For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel – and not with clever speech, so that the cross of Christ would not become useless.

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.’

Again he sent other slaves, saying, ‘Tell those who have been invited, “Look! The feast I have prepared for you is ready. My oxen and fattened cattle have been slaughtered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.”’

“For this reason I am sending you prophets and wise men and experts in the law, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from town to town,

“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you! How often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would have none of it!

And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet blast, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

As he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent a message to him: “Have nothing to do with that innocent man; I have suffered greatly as a result of a dream about him today.”

For Herod himself had sent men, arrested John, and bound him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, because Herod had married her.

“Whoever welcomes one of these little children in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me does not welcome me but the one who sent me.”