'Kept' in the Bible

and told him, "Everyone serves the best wine first, and the cheap kind when people are drunk. But you have kept the best wine until now!"

John was also baptizing in Aenon, near Salim, because there was plenty of water there. People kept coming and were being baptized,

They kept telling the woman, "It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, because now we have heard him ourselves, and we know that he really is the Savior of the world."

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

A large crowd kept following him because they had seen the signs that he was performing by healing the sick.

When the people saw the sign that he had done, they kept saying, "Truly this is the Prophet who was to come into the world!"

They kept saying, "This is Jesus, the son of Joseph, isn't it, whose father and mother we know? So how can he say, "I have come down from heaven'?"

The Jewish leaders kept looking for him at the festival, asking, "Where is that man?"

However, many in the crowd believed in him. They kept saying, "When the Messiah comes, he won't do more signs than this man has done, will he?"

Some were saying, "It's him," while others were saying, "No, but it's someone like him." But he himself kept saying, "It's me!"

Many people came to him and kept saying, "John never performed a sign, but everything that John said about this man is true!"

But some of them said, "Surely the one who opened the eyes of the blind man could have kept this man from dying, couldn't he?"

They kept looking for Jesus and saying to one another as they stood in the Temple, "What do you think? Surely he won't come to the festival, will he?"

One of his disciples, the one whom Jesus kept loving, had been sitting very close to him.

If you keep my commandments, you'll abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.

Remember what I told you: "A servant is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.

They kept saying, "What is this "in a little while' that he keeps talking about? We don't know what he means."

I have made your name known to these men whom you gave me from the world. They were yours, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.

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

From then on, Pilate tried to release him, but the Jewish leaders kept shouting, "If you release this fellow, you're not a friend of Caesar! Anyone who claims to be a king is defying Caesar!"

When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he kept loving standing there, he told his mother, "Dear lady, here is your son."

So she ran off and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, whom Jesus kept loving. She told them, "They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don't know where they have put him!"

So the other disciples kept telling him, "We've seen the Lord!" But he told them, "Unless I see the nail marks in his hands, put my finger into them, and put my hand into his side, I'll never believe!"

That disciple whom Jesus kept loving told Peter, "It's the Lord!" When Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he put his clothes back on, because he was practically naked, and jumped into the sea.

Peter turned around and noticed the disciple whom Jesus kept loving following them. He was the one who had put his head on Jesus' chest at the supper and had asked, "Lord, who is the one who is going to betray you?"