¹⁸ As you have sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world.^(A)

²¹ Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.”^(A)

²⁰ So we are ambassadors for Christ, since God is making his appeal through us; we entreat you on behalf of Christ: be reconciled to God.^(A)

³ And this is eternal life, that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.^(A)

³⁸ I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”

The Mission of the Twelve

⁵ These twelve Jesus sent out with the following instructions: “Do not take a road leading to gentiles, and do not enter a Samaritan town,^(A)

⁷ Of this gospel I have become a servant according to the gift of God’s grace that was given me by the working of his power.

²³ I in them and you in me, that they may become completely one, so that the world may know that you have sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.

²¹ that they may all be one. As you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be in us,^[a] so that the world may believe that you have sent me.^(A)

⁸ for the words that you gave to me I have given to them, and they have received them and know in truth that I came from you, and they have believed that you sent me.^(A)