<p class="otpoetry">&#8220;<b><i>The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,i>b>p> <p class="otpoetry"><b><i>because he has anointedi>b><n id="1" /> <b><i>me to proclaim good newsi>b><n id="2" /> <i><b>to the poorb>.i><n id="3" />p> <p class="otpoetry"><b><i>He has sent mei>b><n id="4" /> <b><i>to proclaim releasei>b><n id="5" /> <b><i>to the captivesi>b>p> <p class="otpoetry"><b><i>and the regaining of sighti>b><n id="6" /> <b><i>to the blind,i>b>p> <p class="otpoetry"><b><i>to set freei>b><n id="7" /> <b><i>those who are oppressed,i>b><n id="8" />p>

and he sent<n id="1" /> them out to proclaim<n id="2" /> the kingdom of God<n id="3" /> and to heal the sick.<n id="4" />

Go! I<n id="1" /> am sending you out like lambs<n id="2" /> surrounded by wolves.<n id="3" />

If he cannot succeed,<n id="1" /> he will send a representative<n id="2" /> while the other is still a long way off and ask for terms of peace.<n id="3" />

So those who were sent ahead found<n id="1" /> it exactly<n id="2" /> as he had told them.

He<n id="1" /> sent messengers on ahead of him.<n id="2" /> As they went along,<n id="3" /> they entered a Samaritan village to make things ready in advance<n id="4" /> for him,

Jesus<n id="1" /> sent Peter and John, saying, &#8220;Go and prepare the Passover<n id="2" /> for us to eat.&#8221;<n id="3" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">In the sixth month of Elizabeth&#8217;s pregnancy,<n id="1" /> the angel Gabriel<n id="2" /> was sent by<n id="3" /> God to a town of Galilee called Nazareth,<n id="4" />

But Jesus<n id="1" /> said to them, &#8220;I must<n id="2" /> proclaim the good news of the kingdom<n id="3" /> of God to the other towns<n id="4" /> too, for that is what I was sent<n id="5" /> to do.&#8221;<n id="6" />

When the centurion<n id="1" /> heard<n id="2" /> about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders<n id="3" /> to him, asking him to come<n id="4" /> and heal his slave.

This is the one about whom it is written, &#8216;<b><i>Look, I am sending my messenger ahead of you,i>b><n id="1" /> <b><i>who will prepare your way before youi>b>.&#8217;<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;The one who listens<n id="1" /> to you listens to me,<n id="2" /> and the one who rejects you rejects me, and the one who rejects me rejects<n id="3" /> the one who sent me.&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

For this reason also the wisdom<n id="1" /> of God said, &#8216;I will send them prophets and apostles, some of whom they will kill and persecute,&#8217;

At<n id="1" /> the time for the banquet<n id="2" /> he sent his slave<n id="3" /> to tell those who had been invited, &#8216;Come, because everything is now ready.&#8217;

But his citizens<n id="1" /> hated<n id="2" /> him and sent a delegation after him, saying, &#8216;We do not want this man<n id="3" /> to be king<n id="4" /> over us!&#8217;

Now<n id="1" /> when he approached Bethphage<n id="2" /> and Bethany, at the place called the Mount of Olives,<n id="3" /> he sent two of the disciples,

When harvest time came, he sent a slave<n id="1" /> to the tenants so that they would give<n id="2" /> him his portion of the crop.<n id="3" /> However, the tenants beat his slave<n id="4" /> and sent him away empty-handed.

<p class="bodytext">Then<n id="1" /> Jesus<n id="2" /> said to them, &#8220;When I sent you out with no money bag,<n id="3" /> or traveler&#8217;s bag,<n id="4" /> or sandals, you didn&#8217;t lack<n id="5" /> anything, did you?&#8221; They replied,<n id="6" /> &#8220;Nothing.&#8221;

The<n id="1" /> angel answered him, &#8220;I am Gabriel, who stands<n id="2" /> in the presence of God, and I was sent to speak to you and to bring<n id="3" /> you this good news.

When<n id="1" /> the men came to Jesus,<n id="2" /> they said, &#8220;John the Baptist has sent us to you to ask,<n id="3" /> &#8216;Are you the one who is to come, or should we look for another?&#8217;&#8221;<n id="4" />