'Began' in the Bible

Then they went to Capernaum. As soon as it was the Sabbaths, Jesus went into the synagogue and began to teach.

At once his fame began to spread throughout the surrounding region of Galilee.

He went up to her, took her by the hand, and helped her up. The fever left her, and she began serving them.

Then a leper came to Jesus and began pleading with him. He fell on his knees and told him, "If you want to, you can make me clean."

But when the man left, he began to proclaim it freely. He spread the news so widely that Jesus could no longer enter a town openly, but had to stay out in deserted places. Still, people kept coming to him from everywhere.

So the man got up, immediately picked up his mat, and went out in front of all of them. As a result, all of the people were amazed and began to glorify God as they kept on saying, "We have never seen anything like this!"

Jesus happened to be going through the grain fields on a Sabbath. As they made their way, his disciples began picking the heads of grain.

Immediately the Pharisees and Herodians went out and began to plot how to kill him.

So Jesus called them together and began to speak to them in parables. "How can Satan drive out Satan?

Then Jesus began to teach again beside the sea. Such a large crowd gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat in it, while the entire crowd remained beside the sea on the shore.

He began teaching them many things in parables. While he was teaching them he said,

When he was alone with the Twelve and those around him, they began to ask him about the parables.

A violent windstorm came up, and the waves began breaking into the boat, so that the boat was rapidly becoming swamped.

So they began to beg Jesus to leave their territory.

So the man left and began proclaiming in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him. And everyone was utterly amazed.

When the Sabbath came, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were utterly amazed. "Where did this man get all these things?" they asked. "What is this wisdom that has been given to him? What great miracles are being done by his hands!

He called the Twelve and began to send them out two by two, giving them authority over unclean spirits.

When he got out of the boat, he saw a large crowd. He had compassion for them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd, and he began to teach them many things.

but when they saw him walking on the sea, they thought it was a ghost and began to scream.

They ran all over the countryside and began carrying the sick on their mats to any place where they heard he was.

When he had left the crowd and gone home, his disciples began asking him about the parable.

The man's hearing and speech were restored at once, and he began to talk normally.

The Pharisees arrived and began arguing with Jesus. They tested him by demanding from him a sign from heaven.

Then he began to ask them, "But who do you say I am?"

Then he began to teach them that the Son of Man would have to suffer a great deal and be rejected by the elders, the high priests, and the scribes. Then he would be killed, but after three days he would rise again.

Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. But turning and looking at his disciples, Jesus rebuked Peter, saying, "Get behind me, Satan, because you're not thinking God's thoughts, but human thoughts!"

Then Jesus left that place and went into the territory of Judea on the other side of the Jordan. Crowds gathered around him as usual, and he began to teach them again as was his custom.

Then Peter began to say to him, "See, we have left everything and followed you."

Once again, Jesus took the Twelve aside and began to tell them what was going to happen to him. "Pay attention! We're going up to Jerusalem. The Son of Man will be handed over to the high priests and the scribes, and they'll condemn him to death. Then they'll hand him over to the unbelievers,

When the ten other disciples heard this, they began to be furious with James and John.

When he heard that Jesus of Nazareth was there, he began to shout, "Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!"

Jesus told him, "Go. Your faith has made you well." At once the man could see again, and he began to follow Jesus down the road.

When they came to Jerusalem, he went into the Temple and began to throw out those who were selling and those who were buying in the Temple. He overturned the moneychangers' tables and the chairs of those who sold doves.

Then he began to teach them: "It is written, is it not, "My house is to be called a house of prayer for all nations'? But you've turned it into a hideout for bandits!"

When the high priests and elders heard this, they began to look for a way to kill him, because they were afraid of him, since the whole crowd was amazed at his teaching.

They began discussing this among themselves. "If we say, "From heaven,' he'll say, "Then why didn't you believe him?'

Then Jesus began to speak to them in parables. "A man planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a pit for the wine press, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and went abroad.

Jesus began to say to them, "See to it that no one deceives you.

After they had listened to him, they were delighted and promised to give him money. So he began to look for a good opportunity to betray him.

They began to be very sad and asked him, one after the other, "Surely I am not the one, am I?"

He took Peter, James, and John along with him, and he began to feel distressed and troubled.

Some of them began to spit on him. They blindfolded him and kept hitting him with their fists and telling him, "Prophesy!" Even the servants took him and slapped him around.

Again he denied it. After a little while, the people who were standing there began to say to Peter again, "Obviously you're one of them, because you are a Galilean!"

Then he began to invoke a divine curse and to swear with an oath, "I don't know this man you're talking about!"

So the crowd came and began to request that Pilate do for them what he always did.

They began to greet him, "Long live the king of the Jews!"