As You sent Me into the world, I have also sent them into the world.
Parallel translations
- WEB As you sent me into the world, even so I have sent them into the world.
- KJV As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.
- NKJV As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world.
- NASB Just as You sent Me into the world, I also sent them into the world.
- NLT Just as you sent me into the world, I am sending them into the world.
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Quick answer
As the Father sent Jesus into the world, Jesus sends his disciples into the world. Believers are commissioned to continue his mission.
Overview
This verse grounds Christian mission in the sending of the Son. Just as Jesus came on the Father's errand, so he sends his disciples to bear witness to the truth. It anticipates the Great Commission and the apostolic ministry, and reminds the church that its task in the world flows directly from, and is patterned after, Christ's own sending by the Father.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 12
- John 20:21Again Jesus said to them, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent Me, so also I am sending you.”
- 2 Cor 5:20Therefore we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making His appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ: Be reconciled to God.
- John 17:3Now this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.
- Matt 10:5These twelve Jesus sent out with the following instructions: “Do not go onto the road of the Gentiles or enter any town of the Samaritans.
- Eph 3:7I became a servant of this gospel by the gift of God’s grace, given me through the working of His power.
- John 4:38I sent you to reap what you have not worked for; others have done the hard work, and now you have taken up their labor.”
- Matt 23:34Because of this, I am sending you prophets and wise men and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and others you will flog in your synagogues and persecute in town after town.
- Isa 61:1–3The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners,
- John 17:8For I have given them the words You gave Me, and they have received them. They knew with certainty that I came from You, and they believed that You sent Me.
- John 17:21that all of them may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I am in You. May they also be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.
- John 17:23I in them and You in Me—that they may be perfectly united, so that the world may know that You sent Me and have loved them just as You have loved Me.
- John 17:25Righteous Father, although the world has not known You, I know You, and they know that You sent Me.
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