Just as You sent Me into the world, I 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.
- BSB As You sent Me into the world, I have also sent them into the world.
- NKJV As You sent Me into the world, I also have 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 20:21Jesus therefore said to them again, “Peace be to you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you.”
- 2 Cor 5:20We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
- John 17:3This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.
- Matt 10:5Jesus sent these twelve out, and commanded them, saying, “Don’t go among the Gentiles, and don’t enter into any city of the Samaritans.
- Eph 3:7of which I was made a servant, according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power.
- John 4:38I sent you to reap that for which you haven’t labored. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”
- Matt 23:34Therefore behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city;
- Isa 61:1–3The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me; because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to those who are bound;
- John 17:8for the words which you have given me I have given to them, and they received them, and knew for sure that I came from you, and they have believed that you sent me.
- John 17:21that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.
- John 17:23I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me, and loved them, even as you loved me.
- John 17:25Righteous Father, the world hasn’t known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me.
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