Throughout these passages, Jesus refers to the Father as “the one who sent me”. John actually creates what I will call a “stylist word play” around two Greek verbs that mean “to send”. The first one is πέμπω (pempo). It occurs 4 times in our said passage. The second one is ἀποστέλλω (apostello). It occurs 3 times in our said passage. In one of those uses, it refers to John.
I should also say that this is a habitual word play as it occurs throughout John’s Gospel.
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