'Began' in the Bible

After this, Jesus and his disciples went into the Judean countryside. He spent some time there with them and began baptizing.

So the disciples began to say to one another, "No one has brought him anything to eat, have they?"

So the Jewish leaders began persecuting Jesus, because he kept doing such things on the Sabbath.

Then the Jewish leaders began grumbling about him because he said, "I am the bread that came down from heaven."

Halfway through the festival, Jesus went up to the Temple and began teaching.

Then some of the people of Jerusalem began saying, "This is the man they are trying to kill, isn't it?

At daybreak he appeared again in the Temple, and all the people came to him. So he sat down and began to teach them.

They said this to test him, so that they might have a charge against him. But Jesus bent down and began to write on the ground with his finger.

So the Pharisees also began to ask him how he had gained his sight. He told them, "He put mud on my eyes, then I washed, and now I can see."

Some of the Pharisees began to remark, "This man is not from God because he does not keep the Sabbath." But others were saying, "How can a sinful man perform such signs?" And there was a division among them.

Then he poured some water into a basin and began to wash the disciples' feet and to dry them with the towel that was tied around his waist.

The disciples began looking at one another, completely mystified about whom he was speaking.

They kept coming up to him and saying, "Long live the king of the Jews!" Then they began to slap him on the face.