As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world.
Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.”
Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.
I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”
These twelve Jesus sent out, instructing them, “Go nowhere among the Gentiles and enter no town of the Samaritans,
Of this gospel I was made a minister according to the gift of God's grace, which was given me by the working of his power.
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.
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.
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.
Therefore I send you prophets and wise men and scribes, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from town to town,
The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound; to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn; to grant to those who mourn in Zion— to give them a beautiful headdress instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, the garment of praise instead of a faint spirit; that they may be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he may be glorified.
O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me.
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