'Began' in the Bible

Then the Devil left Him, and immediately angels came and began to serve Him.

From then on Jesus began to preach, “Repent, because the kingdom of heaven has come near!”

Then He began to teach them, saying:

So He touched her hand, and the fever left her. Then she got up and began to serve Him.

As these men went away, Jesus began to speak to the crowds about John: “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed swaying in the wind?

At that time Jesus passed through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick and eat some heads of grain.

He went to His hometown and began to teach them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished and said, “How did this wisdom and these miracles come to Him?

From then on Jesus began to point out to His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders, chief priests, and scribes, be killed, and be raised the third day.

Then Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him, “Oh no, Lord! This will never happen to You!”

When he began to settle accounts, one who owed 10,000 talents was brought before him.

“At this, his fellow slave fell down and began begging him, ‘Be patient with me, and I will pay you back.’

When they received it, they began to complain to the landowner:

Where did John’s baptism come from? From heaven or from men?”They began to argue among themselves, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ He will say to us, ‘Then why didn’t you believe him?’

Deeply distressed, each one began to say to Him, “Surely not I, Lord?”

Taking along Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, He began to be sorrowful and deeply distressed.