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The angel said to him, “I am Gabriel. I stand in the presence of God, and I have been sent to speak to you and to tell you this good news.
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The Birth of Jesus Foretold
In the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee,
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He has filled the hungry with good things but has sent the rich away empty.
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“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free,
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Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to a widow in Zarephath in the region of Sidon.
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But he said, “I must proclaim the good news of the kingdom of God to the other towns also, because that is why I was sent.”
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The centurion heard of Jesus and sent some elders of the Jews to him, asking him to come and heal his servant.
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So Jesus went with them. He was not far from the house when the centurion sent friends to say to him: “Lord, don’t trouble yourself, for I do not deserve to have you come under my roof.
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Then the men who had been sent returned to the house and found the servant well.
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he sent them to the Lord to ask, “Are you the one who is to come, or should we expect someone else?”
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When the men came to Jesus, they said, “John the Baptist sent us to you to ask, ‘Are you the one who is to come, or should we expect someone else?’”
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This is the one about whom it is written: “‘I will send my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way before you.’
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The man from whom the demons had gone out begged to go with him, but Jesus sent him away, saying,
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Jesus Sends Out the Twelve
When Jesus had called the Twelve together, he gave them power and authority to drive out all demons and to cure diseases,
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and he sent them out to proclaim the kingdom of God and to heal the sick.
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Late in the afternoon the Twelve came to him and said, “Send the crowd away so they can go to the surrounding villages and countryside and find food and lodging, because we are in a remote place here.”
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Then he said to them, “Whoever welcomes this little child in my name welcomes me; and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me. For it is the one who is least among you all who is the greatest.”
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And he sent messengers on ahead, who went into a Samaritan village to get things ready for him;
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Jesus Sends Out the Seventy-Two
After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them two by two ahead of him to every town and place where he was about to go.
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He told them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.
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Go! I am sending you out like lambs among wolves.
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“Whoever listens to you listens to me; whoever rejects you rejects me; but whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me.”
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Because of this, God in his wisdom said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles, some of whom they will kill and others they will persecute.’
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“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing.
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But they remained silent. So taking hold of the man, he healed him and sent him on his way.
