Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Even so send I you (kagw pempw umav). Jesus has often spoken of the Father's sending him using both apostellw and pempw. Here he employs both words in practically the same sense. Jesus still bears the Commission of the Father (perfect active indicative). For this balanced contention (as ... so) see John 6:57; John 10:15. This is the first of the three commissions given by the Risen Christ (another on the mountain in Galilee (Matthew 28:16-20; I Corinthians 15:6), another on the Mount of Olives (Luke 24:44-51; Acts 1:3-11).
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing John 20:21:
Mark 16:15
John 14:27
John 17:18
John 20:19
Acts 1:2
Acts 1:3
3 John 1:14
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