'Happened' in the Bible

Now the birth of Jesus Christ happened this way. While his mother Mary was engaged to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit.

This all happened so that what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet would be fulfilled:

The herdsmen ran off, went into the town, and told everything that had happened to the demon-possessed men.

When his fellow slaves saw what had happened, they were very upset and went and told their lord everything that had taken place.

For then there will be great suffering unlike anything that has happened from the beginning of the world until now, or ever will happen.

But this has happened so that the scriptures of the prophets would be fulfilled." Then all the disciples left him and fled.

While they were going, some of the guard went into the city and told the chief priests everything that had happened.

Now the herdsmen ran off and spread the news in the town and countryside, and the people went out to see what had happened.

Those who had seen what had happened to the demon-possessed man reported it, and they also told about the pigs.

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

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

For in those days there will be suffering unlike anything that has happened from the beginning of the creation that God created until now, or ever will happen.

Day after day I was with you, teaching in the temple courts, yet you did not arrest me. But this has happened so that the scriptures would be fulfilled."

When the herdsmen saw what had happened, they ran off and spread the news in the town and countryside.

So the people went out to see what had happened, and they came to Jesus. They found the man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting at Jesus' feet, clothed and in his right mind, and they were afraid.

Her parents were astonished, but he ordered them to tell no one what had happened.

When he learned that he was from Herod's jurisdiction, he sent him over to Herod, who also happened to be in Jerusalem at that time.

Now when the centurion saw what had happened, he praised God and said, "Certainly this man was innocent!"

But Peter got up and ran to the tomb. He bent down and saw only the strips of linen cloth; then he went home, wondering what had happened.

They were talking to each other about all the things that had happened.

Then one of them, named Cleopas, answered him, "Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem who doesn't know the things that have happened there in these days?"

But we had hoped that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel. Not only this, but it is now the third day since these things happened.

Then they told what had happened on the road, and how they recognized him when he broke the bread.

These things happened in Bethany across the Jordan River where John was baptizing.

(His disciples did not understand these things when they first happened, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him and that these things had happened to him.)

"Lord," Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said, "what has happened that you are going to reveal yourself to us and not to the world?"

Now this happened to fulfill the word that is written in their law, 'They hated me without reason.'

(This happened to fulfill the word Jesus had spoken when he indicated what kind of death he was going to die.)

For these things happened so that the scripture would be fulfilled, "Not a bone of his will be broken."

and they recognized him as the man who used to sit and ask for donations at the Beautiful Gate of the temple, and they were filled with astonishment and amazement at what had happened to him.

After threatening them further, they released them, for they could not find how to punish them on account of the people, because they were all praising God for what had happened.

After an interval of about three hours, his wife came in, but she did not know what had happened.

saying to Aaron, 'Make us gods who will go in front of us, for this Moses, who led us out of the land of Egypt -- we do not know what has happened to him!'

This happened three times, and immediately the object was taken up into heaven.

you know what happened throughout Judea, beginning from Galilee after the baptism that John announced:

This happened three times, and then everything was pulled up to heaven again.

Then when the proconsul saw what had happened, he believed, because he was greatly astounded at the teaching about the Lord.

The same thing happened in Iconium when Paul and Barnabas went into the Jewish synagogue and spoke in such a way that a large group of both Jews and Greeks believed.

So he was addressing the Jews and the God-fearing Gentiles in the synagogue, and in the marketplace every day those who happened to be there.

serving the Lord with all humility and with tears, and with the trials that happened to me because of the plots of the Jews.

After this had happened, many of the people on the island who were sick also came and were healed.

For I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be conceited: A partial hardening has happened to Israel until the full number of the Gentiles has come in.

These things happened as examples for us, so that we will not crave evil things as they did.

These things happened to them as examples and were written for our instruction, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

For we do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, regarding the affliction that happened to us in the province of Asia, that we were burdened excessively, beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of living.

For in fact when we were with you, we were telling you in advance that we would suffer affliction, and so it has happened, as you well know.

as well as the persecutions and sufferings that happened to me in Antioch, in Iconium, and in Lystra. I endured these persecutions and the Lord delivered me from them all.