As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.
As thou hast sent ('sentest') me into the world, even so have I also sent ('sent I also') them into the world. As their mission was designed for no other end than to carry into effect the purpose of His own mission into the world, so He speaks of the authority by which He was sending them into the world as but an extension of the same authority by which Himself was sent of the Father. As He was the Father's Ambassador and Agent, so were they to be His. Nay, He represents them as already sent, just as He represents His own personal work on earth as already at an end; and what His soul is now filled with and looking forward to is the coming fruit of that work, the travail of His soul, and His satisfaction therein.