¹⁸ Just as you sent me into the world, I am sending them into the world.

²¹ Again he said, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I am sending you.”

²⁰ So we are Christ’s ambassadors; God is making his appeal through us. We speak for Christ when we plead, “Come back to God!”

³ And this is the way to have eternal life—to know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, the one you sent to earth.

³⁸ I sent you to harvest where you didn’t plant; others had already done the work, and now you will get to gather the harvest.”

⁵ Jesus sent out the twelve apostles with these instructions: “Don’t go to the Gentiles or the Samaritans,

⁷ By God’s grace and mighty power, I have been given the privilege of serving him by spreading this Good News.

²³ I am in them and you are in me. May they experience such perfect unity that the world will know that you sent me and that you love them as much as you love me.

²¹ I pray that they will all be one, just as you and I are one—as you are in me, Father, and I am in you. And may they be in us so that the world will believe you sent me.

⁸ for I have passed on to them the message you gave me. They accepted it and know that I came from you, and they believe you sent me.