Quotes About Mission

But if you enter a town and they do not welcome you, go into the streets and declare,

The seventy-two returned with joy and said, “Lord, even the demons submit to us in Your name.”

I have come to ignite a fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled!

But I have a baptism to undergo, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!

At that very hour, some Pharisees came to Jesus and told Him, “Leave this place and get away, because Herod wants to kill You.”

But Jesus replied, “Go tell that fox, ëLook, I will keep driving out demons and healing people today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will reach My goal.í

Nevertheless, I must keep going today and tomorrow and the next day, for it is not admissible for a prophet to perish outside of Jerusalem.

So the master told his servant, ëGo out to the highways and hedges and compel them to come in, so that my house will be full.

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”

As He approached Bethphage and Bethany at the Mount of Olives, He sent out two of His disciples,

So those who were sent went out and found it just as Jesus had told them.

“The Lord needs it,” they answered.

“Where do You want us to prepare it?” they asked.

Then Jesus asked them, “When I sent you out without purse or bag or sandals, did you lack anything?” “Nothing,” they answered.

And they worshiped Him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy,

There came a man who was sent from God. His name was John.

You yourselves can testify that I said, ëI am not the Christ, but am sent ahead of Him.í

Now He had to pass through Samaria.

(His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)

Jesus explained, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work.

One of His disciples, Andrew, Simon Peterís brother, said to Him,

Jesus replied, “The work of God is this: to believe in the One He has sent.”

For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but to do the will of Him who sent Me.

After this, Jesus traveled throughout Galilee. He did not want to travel in Judea, because the Jews there were trying to kill Him.