'Happened' in the Bible

And it happened that in those days Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and was baptized in the Jordan by John.

And it happened that he {was dining} in his house, and many tax collectors and sinners {were dining with} Jesus and his disciples, for there were many and they were following him.

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.

And it happened that while [he] was sowing, {some seed} fell on the side of the path, and the birds came and devoured it.

The men who tended them ran off and reported it in the town and the countryside, and people went to see what had happened.

The eyewitnesses described to them what had happened to the demon-possessed man and told about the pigs.

Then the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came with fear and trembling, fell down before Him, and told Him the whole truth.

Now the woman happened to be a Greek, born in Phoenicia in Syria. She kept asking him to drive the demon out of her daughter.

He sent another, and that one they killed. This happened to many others, some of whom were beaten, others killed.

because those days will be a time of suffering, a kind that has not happened from the beginning of God's creation until now, and certainly will never happen again.

Every day I was with you in the temple teaching, and you did not seize Me; but this has taken place to fulfill the Scriptures.”

They forced a certain passer-by named Simon of Cyrene, the father of Alexander and Rufus, who happened to be coming in from the country, to carry Jesus' cross.