A better search for the Father sending the Son

William McFarland

I wanted to do a search in the gospels for all the instances where it references the Father sending the Son. I used the search 

<Person God> AND <Person Jesus> INTERSECTS <LouwNida ~ 15.66> in NKJV

restricted to the Gospels and got 33 hits. But I think there is a better way to write this as identifying God as the actor and the Son as the recipient of the action but I don't know the right way to structure that. Since the Son doesn't send the Father I don't think I got any incorrect results but still, I'd like to learn to do it better.

Thanks

Graham Criddle

I wanted to do a search in the gospels for all the instances where it references the Father sending the Son.

I would use a Clause Search - either with Subject:God / Object:Jesus or Agent:God / Theme (or Patient):Jesus

But note that different words have different glosses and you need to use each one in turn (I found you needed to use the first three to get the complete set)

EDIT: And on a more general note I was studying this earlier in the year and found it fascinating to look at instances of one member of the Trinity "acting" on another - so "subject:God / object:Jesus" or "subject:Jesus / object:God" etc.