And he sent them to Bethlehem, saying, “Go and search diligently for the child, and when you have found him, bring me word, that I too may come and worship him.”

Herod Kills the Children

Then Herod, when he saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, became furious, and he sent and killed all the male children in Bethlehem and in all that region who were two years old or under, according to the time that he had ascertained from the wise men.

Jesus Sends Out the Twelve Apostles

These twelve Jesus sent out, instructing them, “Go nowhere among the Gentiles and enter no town of the Samaritans,

Rewards

“Whoever receives you receives me, and whoever receives me receives him who sent me.

Now when John heard in prison about the deeds of the Christ, he sent word by his disciples

He sent and had John beheaded in the prison,

And when the men of that place recognized him, they sent around to all that region and brought to him all who were sick

He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”

After agreeing with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard.

The Triumphal Entry

Now when they drew near to Jerusalem and came to Bethphage, to the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples,

When the season for fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants to get his fruit.

Again he sent other servants, more than the first. And they did the same to them.

Finally he sent his son to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’

and sent his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding feast, but they would not come.

Again he sent other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who are invited, “See, I have prepared my dinner, my oxen and my fat calves have been slaughtered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding feast.”’

The king was angry, and he sent his troops and destroyed those murderers and burned their city.

And they sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are true and teach the way of God truthfully, and you do not care about anyone's opinion, for you are not swayed by appearances.

Lament over Jerusalem

“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!

Besides, while he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent word to him, “Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered much because of him today in a dream.”

And Jesus sternly charged him and sent him away at once,

Jesus' Mother and Brothers

And his mother and his brothers came, and standing outside they sent to him and called him.

For it was Herod who had sent and seized John and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, because he had married her.

And immediately the king sent an executioner with orders to bring John's head. He went and beheaded him in the prison

And there were about four thousand people. And he sent them away.

And he sent him to his home, saying, “Do not even enter the village.”

“Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, and whoever receives me, receives not me but him who sent me.”

The Triumphal Entry

Now when they drew near to Jerusalem, to Bethphage and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of his disciples

When the season came, he sent a servant to the tenants to get from them some of the fruit of the vineyard.

And they took him and beat him and sent him away empty-handed.

Again he sent to them another servant, and they struck him on the head and treated him shamefully.

And he sent another, and him they killed. And so with many others: some they beat, and some they killed.

He had still one other, a beloved son. Finally he sent him to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’

Paying Taxes to Caesar

And they sent to him some of the Pharisees and some of the Herodians, to trap him in his talk.

And he sent two of his disciples and said to them, “Go into the city, and a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him,

And the angel answered him, “I am Gabriel. I stand in the presence of God, and I was sent to speak to you and to bring you this good news.

Birth of Jesus Foretold

In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth,

he has filled the hungry with good things, and the rich he has sent away empty.

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed,

and Elijah was sent to none of them but only to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.

but he said to them, “I must preach the good news of the kingdom of God to the other towns as well; for I was sent for this purpose.”

When the centurion heard about Jesus, he sent to him elders of the Jews, asking him to come and heal his servant.

And Jesus went with them. When he was not far from the house, the centurion sent friends, saying to him, “Lord, do not trouble yourself, for I am not worthy to have you come under my roof.

And when those who had been sent returned to the house, they found the servant well.

calling two of his disciples to him, sent them to the Lord, saying, “Are you the one who is to come, or shall we look for another?”

And when the men had come to him, they said, “John the Baptist has sent us to you, saying, ‘Are you the one who is to come, or shall we look for another?’”

The man from whom the demons had gone begged that he might be with him, but Jesus sent him away, saying,

and he sent them out to proclaim the kingdom of God and to heal.

and said to them, “Whoever receives this child in my name receives me, and whoever receives me receives him who sent me. For he who is least among you all is the one who is great.”

And he sent messengers ahead of him, who went and entered a village of the Samaritans, to make preparations for him.

Jesus Sends Out the Seventy-Two

After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them on ahead of him, two by two, into every town and place where he himself was about to go.

“The one who hears you hears me, and the one who rejects you rejects me, and the one who rejects me rejects him who sent me.”

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!

But they remained silent. Then he took him and healed him and sent him away.

And at the time for the banquet he sent his servant to say to those who had been invited, ‘Come, for everything is now ready.’

So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed pigs.

But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to reign over us.’

When he drew near to Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount that is called Olivet, he sent two of the disciples,

So those who were sent went away and found it just as he had told them.

When the time came, he sent a servant to the tenants, so that they would give him some of the fruit of the vineyard. But the tenants beat him and sent him away empty-handed.

And he sent another servant. But they also beat and treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty-handed.

And he sent yet a third. This one also they wounded and cast out.

So they watched him and sent spies, who pretended to be sincere, that they might catch him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the authority and jurisdiction of the governor.

So Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, “Go and prepare the Passover for us, that we may eat it.”

Scripture Must Be Fulfilled in Jesus

And he said to them, “When I sent you out with no moneybag or knapsack or sandals, did you lack anything?” They said, “Nothing.”

And when he learned that he belonged to Herod's jurisdiction, he sent him over to Herod, who was himself in Jerusalem at that time.

And Herod with his soldiers treated him with contempt and mocked him. Then, arraying him in splendid clothing, he sent him back to Pilate.

Neither did Herod, for he sent him back to us. Look, nothing deserving death has been done by him.

There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.

The Testimony of John the Baptist

And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?”

So they said to him, “Who are you? We need to give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?”

(Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.)

I myself did not know him, but he who sent me to baptize with water said to me, ‘He on whom you see the Spirit descend and remain, this is he who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’

You yourselves bear me witness, that I said, ‘I am not the Christ, but I have been sent before him.’

For he whom God has sent utters the words of God, for he gives the Spirit without measure.

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

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

that all may honor the Son, just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.

Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.

Witnesses to Jesus

“I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me.

You sent to John, and he has borne witness to the truth.

But the testimony that I have is greater than that of John. For the works that the Father has given me to accomplish, the very works that I am doing, bear witness about me that the Father has sent me.

And the Father who sent me has himself borne witness about me. His voice you have never heard, his form you have never seen,

and you do not have his word abiding in you, for you do not believe the one whom he has sent.

Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”

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

And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day.

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

As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me.

So Jesus answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.

The one who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory; but the one who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and in him there is no falsehood.

So Jesus proclaimed, as he taught in the temple, “You know me, and you know where I come from. But I have not come of my own accord. He who sent me is true, and him you do not know.

I know him, for I come from him, and he sent me.”

Officers Sent to Arrest Jesus

The Pharisees heard the crowd muttering these things about him, and the chief priests and Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.

Jesus then said, “I will be with you a little longer, and then I am going to him who sent me.

Yet even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for it is not I alone who judge, but I and the Father who sent me.

I am the one who bears witness about myself, and the Father who sent me bears witness about me.”

I have much to say about you and much to judge, but he who sent me is true, and I declare to the world what I have heard from him.”

And he who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him.”

Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and I am here. I came not of my own accord, but he sent me.

We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work.

and said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means Sent). So he went and washed and came back seeing.

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

So the sisters sent to him, saying, “Lord, he whom you love is ill.”

I knew that you always hear me, but I said this on account of the people standing around, that they may believe that you sent me.”

Jesus Came to Save the World

And Jesus cried out and said, “Whoever believes in me, believes not in me but in him who sent me.

And whoever sees me sees him who sent me.

For I have not spoken on my own authority, but the Father who sent me has himself given me a commandment—what to say and what to speak.

Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him.

Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever receives the one I send receives me, and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me.”

Whoever does not love me does not keep my words. And the word that you hear is not mine but the Father's who sent me.

But all these things they will do to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me.

But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’

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

For I have given them the words that you gave me, and they have received them and have come to know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me.

As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world.

that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.

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

O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me.

Annas then sent him bound to Caiaphas the high priest.

Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.”

God, having raised up his servant, sent him to you first, to bless you by turning every one of you from your wickedness.”

And when they heard this, they entered the temple at daybreak and began to teach. Now when the high priest came, and those who were with him, they called together the council, all the senate of the people of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.

But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers on their first visit.

And Joseph sent and summoned Jacob his father and all his kindred, seventy-five persons in all.

“This Moses, whom they rejected, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’—this man God sent as both ruler and redeemer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

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

So Ananias departed and entered the house. And laying his hands on him he said, “Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus who appeared to you on the road by which you came has sent me so that you may regain your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”

And when the brothers learned this, they brought him down to Caesarea and sent him off to Tarsus.

Since Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples, hearing that Peter was there, sent two men to him, urging him, “Please come to us without delay.”

and having related everything to them, he sent them to Joppa.

Now while Peter was inwardly perplexed as to what the vision that he had seen might mean, behold, the men who were sent by Cornelius, having made inquiry for Simon's house, stood at the gate

Rise and go down and accompany them without hesitation, for I have sent them.”

So when I was sent for, I came without objection. I ask then why you sent for me.”

So I sent for you at once, and you have been kind enough to come. Now therefore we are all here in the presence of God to hear all that you have been commanded by the Lord.”

As for the word that he sent to Israel, preaching good news of peace through Jesus Christ (he is Lord of all),

And behold, at that very moment three men arrived at the house in which we were, sent to me from Caesarea.

The report of this came to the ears of the church in Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas to Antioch.

When Peter came to himself, he said, “Now I am sure that the Lord has sent his angel and rescued me from the hand of Herod and from all that the Jewish people were expecting.”

Barnabas and Saul Sent Off

Now there were in the church at Antioch prophets and teachers, Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen a lifelong friend of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

Then after fasting and praying they laid their hands on them and sent them off.

Barnabas and Saul on Cyprus

So, being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia, and from there they sailed to Cyprus.

After the reading from the Law and the Prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent a message to them, saying, “Brothers, if you have any word of encouragement for the people, say it.”

“Brothers, sons of the family of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, to us has been sent the message of this salvation.

So, being sent on their way by the church, they passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, describing in detail the conversion of the Gentiles, and brought great joy to all the brothers.

The Council's Letter to Gentile Believers

Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole church, to choose men from among them and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. They sent Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, leading men among the brothers,

We have therefore sent Judas and Silas, who themselves will tell you the same things by word of mouth.

So when they were sent off, they went down to Antioch, and having gathered the congregation together, they delivered the letter.

And after they had spent some time, they were sent off in peace by the brothers to those who had sent them.

But when it was day, the magistrates sent the police, saying, “Let those men go.”

And the jailer reported these words to Paul, saying, “The magistrates have sent to let you go. Therefore come out now and go in peace.”

Paul and Silas in Berea

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue.

Then the brothers immediately sent Paul off on his way to the sea, but Silas and Timothy remained there.

And having sent into Macedonia two of his helpers, Timothy and Erastus, he himself stayed in Asia for a while.

And even some of the Asiarchs, who were friends of his, sent to him and were urging him not to venture into the theater.

Paul in Macedonia and Greece

After the uproar ceased, Paul sent for the disciples, and after encouraging them, he said farewell and departed for Macedonia.

Paul Speaks to the Ephesian Elders

Now from Miletus he sent to Ephesus and called the elders of the church to come to him.

But as for the Gentiles who have believed, we have sent a letter with our judgment that they should abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality.”

Paul Sent to Felix the Governor

Then he called two of the centurions and said, “Get ready two hundred soldiers, with seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen to go as far as Caesarea at the third hour of the night.

And when it was disclosed to me that there would be a plot against the man, I sent him to you at once, ordering his accusers also to state before you what they have against him.”

After some days Felix came with his wife Drusilla, who was Jewish, and he sent for Paul and heard him speak about faith in Christ Jesus.

At the same time he hoped that money would be given him by Paul. So he sent for him often and conversed with him.

Therefore let it be known to you that this salvation of God has been sent to the Gentiles; they will listen.”

And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!”

That is why I sent you Timothy, my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, to remind you of my ways in Christ, as I teach them everywhere in every church.

Did I take advantage of you through any of those whom I sent to you?

I urged Titus to go, and sent the brother with him. Did Titus take advantage of you? Did we not act in the same spirit? Did we not take the same steps?

But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law,

And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!”

I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know how we are, and that he may encourage your hearts.

Even in Thessalonica you sent me help for my needs once and again.

I have received full payment, and more. I am well supplied, having received from Epaphroditus the gifts you sent, a fragrant offering, a sacrifice acceptable and pleasing to God.

I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know how we are and that he may encourage your hearts,

and we sent Timothy, our brother and God's coworker in the gospel of Christ, to establish and exhort you in your faith,

For this reason, when I could bear it no longer, I sent to learn about your faith, for fear that somehow the tempter had tempted you and our labor would be in vain.

Tychicus I have sent to Ephesus.

Are they not all ministering spirits sent out to serve for the sake of those who are to inherit salvation?

And in the same way was not also Rahab the prostitute justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out by another way?

It was revealed to them that they were serving not themselves but you, in the things that have now been announced to you through those who preached the good news to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, things into which angels long to look.

or to governors as sent by him to punish those who do evil and to praise those who do good.

In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.

In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.

And between the throne and the four living creatures and among the elders I saw a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, with seven horns and with seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth.

Jesus Is Coming

And he said to me, “These words are trustworthy and true. And the Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, has sent his angel to show his servants what must soon take place.”

“I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify to you about these things for the churches. I am the root and the descendant of David, the bright morning star.”