'Sent' in the Bible
There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
He himself was not the light: he was sent to give witness about the light.
And this is the witness of John when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to him with the question, Who are you?
So they said to him, Who are you then? We have to give some answer to those who sent us. What have you to say about yourself?
Those who had been sent came from the Pharisees.
I had no knowledge who he was, but he who sent me to give baptism with water said to me, The one on whom you see the Spirit coming down and resting, it is he who gives baptism with the Holy Spirit.
After tasting the water which had now become wine, the master of the feast (having no idea where it came from, though it was clear to the servants who took the water out) sent for the newly-married man,
God did not send his Son into the world to be judge of the world; he sent him so that the world might have salvation through him.
You yourselves give witness that I said, I am not the Christ. What I said was, I am sent before the Christ.
For he whom God has sent says God's words; and God does not give him the Spirit by measure.
Jesus said, My food is to do the pleasure of him who sent me and to make his work complete.
I sent you to get in grain which you had no hand in planting: other men did that work, and you take the reward.
So that all men may give honour to the Son even as they give honour to the Father. He who gives no honour to the Son gives no honour to the Father who sent him.
Truly I say to you, The man whose ears are open to my word and who has faith in him who sent me, has eternal life; he will not be judged, but has come from death into life.
Of myself I am unable to do anything: as the voice comes to me so I give a decision: and my decision is right because I have no desire to do what is pleasing to myself, but only what is pleasing to him who sent me.
But the witness which I have is greater than that of John: the work which the Father has given me to do, the very work which I am now doing, is a witness that the Father has sent me.
And the Father himself who sent me has given witness about me. Not one of you has ever given ear to his voice; his form you have not seen.
And you have not kept his word in your hearts, because you have not faith in him whom he has sent.
Jesus, answering, said to them, This is to do the work of God: to have faith in him whom God has sent.
For I have come down from heaven, not to do my pleasure, but the pleasure of him who sent me.
And this is the pleasure of him who sent me, that I am not to let out of my hands anything which he has given me, but I am to give it new life on the last day.
No man is able to come to me if the Father who sent me does not give him the desire to come: and I will take him up from the dead on the last day.
As the living Father has sent me, and I have life because of the Father, even so he who takes me for his food will have life because of me.
Jesus gave them this answer: It is not my teaching, but his who sent me.
The man whose words come from himself is looking for glory for himself, but he who is looking for the glory of him who sent him--that man is true and there is no evil in him.
Then, when he was teaching in the Temple, Jesus said with a loud voice, You have knowledge of me and you have knowledge of where I come from; and I have not come of myself; but there is One who has sent me; he is true, but you have no knowledge of him.
I have knowledge of him because I came from him and he sent me.
This discussion of the people came to the ears of the Pharisees; and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent servants to take him.
Then Jesus said, I will be with you a little longer and then I go to him who sent me.
Even if I am judging, my decision is right, because I am not by myself--with me is the Father who sent me.
I give witness about myself and the Father who sent me gives witness about me.
I have much to say about you and against you: but he who sent me is true and what he has said to me I say to the world.
He who sent me is with me; he has not gone from me, because at all times I do the things which are pleasing to him.
Jesus said to them, If God was your Father you would have love for me, because it was from God I came and am here. I did not come of myself, but he sent me.
While it is day we have to do the works of him who sent me: the night comes when no work may be done.
And said to him, Go and make yourself clean in the bath of Siloam (the sense of the name is, Sent). So he went away and, after washing, came back able to see.
Now the Jews had no belief in the statement that he had been blind and was now able to see, till they sent for the father and mother of the man whose eyes had been made open,
So they sent a second time for the man who had been blind and they said to him, Give glory to God: it is clear to us that this man is a sinner.
Do you say of him whom the Father made holy and sent into the world, Your words are evil; because I said, I am God's Son?
So the sisters sent to him, saying, Lord, your dear friend is ill.
And having said this, she went away and said secretly to her sister Mary, The Master is here and has sent for you.
I was certain that your ears are at all times open to me, but I said it because of these who are here, so that they may see that you sent me.
Now is this world to be judged: now will the ruler of this world be sent out.
Then Jesus said with a loud voice, He who has faith in me, has faith not in me, but in him who sent me.
And he who sees me, sees him who sent me.
For I have not said it on my authority, but the Father who sent me gave me orders what to say and how to say it.
Truly I say to you, A servant is not greater than his lord; and he who is sent is not greater than the one who sent him.
Truly I say to you, He who takes to his heart anyone whom I send, takes me to his heart; and he who so takes me, takes him who sent me.
He who has no love for me does not keep my words; and the word which you are hearing is not my word but the Father's who sent me.
They will do all this to you because of my name--because they have no knowledge of him who sent me.
But now I am going to him who sent me; and not one of you says to me, Where are you going?
And this is eternal life: to have knowledge of you, the only true God, and of him whom you have sent, even Jesus Christ.
Because I have given them the words which you gave to me; and they have taken them to heart, and have certain knowledge that I came from you, and they have faith that you sent me.
Even as you have sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world.
May they all be one! Even as you, Father, are in me and I am in you, so let them be in us, so that all men may come to have faith that you sent me.
I in them, and you in me, so that they may be made completely one, and so that it may become clear to all men that you have sent me and that they are loved by you as I am loved by you.
Father of righteousness, I have knowledge of you, though the world has not; and to these it is clear that you sent me;
Then Annas sent him chained to Caiaphas, the high priest.
Then Pilate went back into the Praetorium and sent for Jesus and said to him, Are you the King of the Jews?
And Jesus said to them again, May peace be with you! As the Father sent me, even so I now send you.
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