Quotes About Mission

So Jesusí brothers said to Him, “Leave here and go to Judea, so that Your disciples there may see the works You are doing.

Therefore Jesus told them, “Although your time is always at hand, My time has not yet come.

but I know Him, because I am from Him and He sent Me.”

So Jesus said, “I am with you only a little while longer, and then I am going to the One who sent Me.

At this, the Jews said to one another, “Where does He intend to go that we will not find Him? Will He go where the Jews are dispersed among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?

He who sent Me is with Me. He has not left Me alone, because I always do what pleases Him.”

While it is daytime, we must do the works of Him who sent Me. Night is coming, when no one can work.

I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them in as well, and they will listen to My voice. Then there will be one flock and one shepherd.

and then He said to the disciples, “Let us go back to Judea.”

“Rabbi,” they replied, “the Jews just tried to stone You, and You are going back there?”

Now My soul is troubled, and what shall I say? ëFather, save Me from this hourí? No, it is for this purpose that I have come to this hour.

Jesus knew that the Father had delivered all things into His hands, and that He had come from God and was returning to God.

Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever receives the one I send receives Me, and whoever receives Me receives the One who sent Me.”

But I do exactly what the Father has commanded Me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Get up! Let us go on from here.

You did not choose Me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will remain—so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.

But they will treat you like this because of My name, since they do not know the One who sent Me.

Now, however, I am going to Him who sent Me; yet none of you asks Me, ëWhere are You going?í

When Jesus had spoken these things, He lifted up His eyes to heaven and said, “Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son may glorify You.

For You granted Him authority over all people, so that He may give eternal life to all those You have given Him.

I have glorified You on earth by accomplishing the work You gave Me to do.

I have revealed Your name to those You have given Me out of the world. They were Yours; You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word.

For 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.

As You sent Me into the world, I have also sent them into the world.

that 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.