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Then, as they had been divinely warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they went back to their own country by a different road.

Verse ConceptsGod, Revelation OfVisions And Dreams In ScriptureWarning IndividualsDifferent ThingsNot going home directlyepiphany

Then it says, 'I will go back to the house I left,' and when it comes it finds the house vacant, clean, and all in order.

Verse ConceptsPutting In OrderEmpty PeopleMetaphorical HousesSoliloquySweepingIndividuals going homespaceorderDemonic Influence

but, as great crowds gathered to him, he entered a boat and sat down, while all the crowd stood on the beach.

Verse ConceptsMultitudesCrowdsBoatsPopularitySittingPopularity Of ChristBeachesSitting To Teachgathering

In the morning as he came back to the city he felt hungry,

Verse ConceptsBody Of Christ, Physical Body

Well then, you should have handed my money to the bankers and I would have got my capital with interest when I came back.

Verse ConceptsCreditTalentsDepositsInterestMoney, Stewardship OfMoney, Uses OfPossessingBanksGifts And Talentsinvestinglent

So he left them and went back for the third time, praying in the same words as before.

Verse ConceptsCommunicating Three TimesSaying RepeatedlyJesus Praying

Then Jesus said to him, "Put your sword back into its place; all who draw the sword shall die by the sword.

Verse ConceptsAggressionResistanceRetributionSelf DefenceUnreliabilityJudgement On Murderers

but once sown it springs up to be larger than any plant, throwing out such big branches that the wild birds can roost under its shadow."

Verse ConceptsShadowsBig ThingsPlants Growing Up

She answered him, "No, sir, but under the table the dogs do pick up the children's crumbs."

Verse ConceptsTablesFrugalityRemaining FoodNoting What Animals EatPets

"And how many basketfuls of fragments did you pick up when I broke the seven loaves for the four thousand?" They said, "Seven."

Verse ConceptsSeven ThingsFour ThousandRemaining Food

If anyone asks you, 'Why are you doing that?' say, 'The Lord needs it,' and he will send it back immediately."

Verse ConceptsLendingGod's NeedsWhy Do Others Do This?

As for the dead being raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, at the passage on the Bush, how God said to him, I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob?

Verse ConceptsBurning bushReading The ScripturesBook of the Law

and a man in the field must not turn back to get his coat.

Verse ConceptsCloaksOuter Garments

Then the shepherds went away back, glorifying and extolling God for all they had heard and seen as they had been told they would.

Verse ConceptsGlorifying GodPraise, Examples OfGroups going homeSpecific Praising Of GodStock Keeping

After spending the full number of days they came back, but the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. His parents did not know of this;

Verse ConceptsStaying PutNot Knowing About Christparenthood

Then, as they failed to find him, they came back to Jerusalem in search of him.

Verse ConceptsNot Finding

and he went into all the Jordan-district preaching a baptism of repentance for the remission of sins ??4 as it is written in the book of the sayings of the prophet Isaiah, The voice of one who cries in the desert, 'Make the way ready for the Lord, level the paths for him.

Verse Conceptsevangelists, identity ofJohn's BaptismRemission Of SinBaptism, in the GospelsJohn The BaptistMissionaries, Task OfRepentance, Importance OfIn Order Of RankForgiveness Through RepentanceSigns Of RepentanceThe Region Of Jordan

and was handed the book of the prophet Isaiah; on opening the book he came upon the place where it was written,

Verse ConceptsScrollsThe Act Of OpeningOpening DocumentsFinding ThingsWritten In The ProphetsBooks Of Prophecy

Then, folding up the book, he handed it back to the attendant and sat down. The eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on him,

Verse ConceptsCongregationSealing The MessageSitting To TeachWatching ChristBooks Of Prophecy

give to anyone who asks you, and do not ask your goods back from anyone who has taken them.

Verse ConceptsBeggarsInterestRobbing PeopleGivingPropertyGiving Without Expecting ReturnGiving Back

give, and you will have ample measure given you ??they will pour into your lap measure pressed down, shaken together, and running over; for the measure you deal out to others will be dealt back to yourselves."

Verse ConceptsGiving, Of PossessionsGenerosity, HumanAbundant LifeBad LeadershipEquality In PaymentGiving To OthersBeing BlessedGod, The ProviderProfitsStewardshipPressingPeople ShakingPlenty Through GodGood ReboundingRight MeasuresEconomicsGivingTreating OthersGiving Backmeasurement

Then the messengers went back to the house and found the sick servant was quite well.

Verse ConceptsGroups going homeHealth Achieved

Then the corpse sat up and began to speak; and Jesus gave him back to his mother.

Verse ConceptsPowers Of SpeechDeath Of A Motherluck

On catching sight of Jesus he shrieked aloud and prayed him with a loud cry, "Jesus, son of God most High, what business have you with me? Do not torture me, I beg of you."

Verse ConceptsExorcismsBeggarsShoutingTortureJesus Christ, Son Of GodIndividuals ShoutingThe First Sight Of ChristWhat Have We In Common?Bowing Before MessiahGod Troubling

and then all the inhabitants of the surrounding country of the Gergesenes asked him to leave them, they were so seized with terror. He embarked in the boat and went back.

Verse ConceptsCowardicedefeatFear, Of UnknownBoatsFear Of Christ

Then the apostles came back and described all they had done to Jesus. He took them and retired in private to a town called Bethsaida,

Verse ConceptsApostles, During Jesus Earthly MinistryRetirementTelling What People DidThe Apostles In Actionfeedback

"Teacher," shouted a man from the crowd, "look at my son, I beg of you, for he is my only boy,

Verse ConceptsSatan, Character OfThe Only ChildOnly Child Of People

Before the boy could reach Jesus, the daemon dashed him down and convulsed him, but Jesus checked the unclean spirit, cured the boy, and handed him back to his father.

Verse ConceptsRebukeSpiritsSatan, Work OfConvulsionsThose Jesus HealedSigns Of Possible Demon Possession

Then, if there is a soul there breathing peace, your peace will rest on him; otherwise it will come back to you.

Verse ConceptsReversion Of ThingsMen Of Peace

Next morning he took out a couple of shillings and gave them to the innkeeper, saying, 'Attend to him, and if you are put to any extra expense I will refund you on my way back.'

Verse ConceptsDenariusSecurityAlmsgivingAltruismCharityPaying For Goods

When an unclean spirit leaves a man, it roams through dry places in search of refreshment. As it finds none, then it says, 'I will go back to the house I left,'

Verse ConceptsEvil SpiritsRestlessnessDry PlacesComing Out Of PeopleRestCasting Out Demons

He also said to his host, "When you give a dinner or supper, do not ask your friends or your brothers or your relatives or your rich neighbours, in case they invite you back again and you get repaid.

Verse ConceptsSocial FellowshipSeparating From RelativesGood ReboundingSettling AccountsWealthy PeopleGiving Without Expecting ReturnFriendsFamily And FriendsGiving Backfriendliness

The servant told him, 'Your brother has arrived, and your father has killed the fatted calf because he has got him back safe and sound.'

Verse ConceptsFat AnimalsKilling Domesticated AnimalsEating Cattle

The factor said to himself, 'What am I to do, now that my master is taking the factorship away from me? I am too weak to dig, I am ashamed to beg.

Verse ConceptsDestitutesBeggarsLordship, Human And DivinePoverty, Causes OfBeggingWorldly DilemmasExcavationSoliloquyShame Of Bad ConductWithout StrengthDeposingMoney Management

Besides all that, a great gulf yawns between us and you, to keep back those who want to cross from us to you and also those who want to pass from you to us.'

Verse ConceptsHell, As An ExperienceGehennaProbation PeriodGapsUnable To Do Other ThingsOccupants Of HellPurgatorybridges

Then he said, 'Well, father, I beg you to send him to my father's house,

Verse ConceptsBeggarslazarus

On that day, if a man is on the housetop and his goods inside the house, he must not go down to fetch them out; nor must a man in the field turn back

Verse ConceptsRoofRooftopMan Going DownPeople not returning

Why then did you not put my money into the bank, so that I could have got it with interest when I came back?'

Verse ConceptsCreditBanksDepositsInterestMoney, Stewardship OfMoney, Uses Of

Why, David himself says in the book of psalms, The Lord said to my Lord, 'Sit at my right hand,

Verse ConceptsRight Hand Of GodSittingRight SidesComposersChrist Is Lord

he left Judaea and went back to Galilee.

Jesus said to her, "Go and call your husband, then come back here."

Verse ConceptsOthers SummoningA Good Husband

Then the attendants went back to the high priests and Pharisees, who asked them, "Why have you not brought him with you?"

Verse ConceptsHanding Over ChristThe Chief Priests Condemning Christ

Whereupon the neighbours and those to whom he had been a familiar sight as a beggar, said, "Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?"

Verse ConceptsBeggingBeggarsIs It Really?

and went across the Jordan, back to the spot where John had baptized at first. There he stayed;

Verse ConceptsJohn The Baptist

after that, he said to the disciples, "Let us go back to Judaea."

Verse ConceptsChrist Speaking To Disciples

"Rabbi," said the disciples, "the Jews were trying to stone you only the other day; are you going back there?"

Verse ConceptsRabbiChrist Would Be KilledFear Of Stoning

The disciple just leant back on the breast of Jesus and said, "Lord, who is it?"

Verse ConceptsReclining To EatWho Is The One?breasts

So Pilate went back inside the praetorium and called Jesus, saying, "Then you are king of the Jews?"

Verse ConceptsJews, TheRoyal HousesChrist Is King Of Israel

Now at break of day Jesus was standing on the beach (though the disciples did not know it was Jesus).

Verse ConceptsLack Of InsightDaybreakSeashoresNot Knowing About ChristAt Daybreakrecognition

Jesus replied, "If I choose that he should survive till I come back, what does that matter to you? Follow me yourself."

Verse ConceptsHow Disciples Are CalledThe I Will's of ChristUnrelated ThingsInstructions About FollowingWorrying About The Futurefollowing

This started the report among the brotherhood that the said disciple was not to die. Jesus, however, did not say he was not to die; what he said was, "If I choose that he should survive till I come back, what does that matter to you?"

Verse ConceptsRumoursNot DyingUnrelated ThingsMisunderstandingsDyingDiscipleshipDeath Of Loved OnePositive ThinkingSpreading The GospelJesus Deathrumors

who said, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up to heaven? This Jesus who has been taken from you into heaven will come back, just as you have seen him depart to heaven."

Verse ConceptsFutureGospel, Essence OfLast ThingsAngel, AnnouncementsChrist And HeavenChrist Coming AgainGoing To Heaven

Then they made their way back to Jerusalem from the hill called 'The Olive-Orchard'; it is close to Jerusalem, only a sabbath day's journey from it.

Verse ConceptsSabbath, In NtWeights And Measures, DistancesSabbath Observedzealotswellness

Now it is written in the book of psalms, Desolate be his residence, may no one dwell in it: also, let another man take over his charge.

Verse ConceptsGod Is UnchangeableEmpty PlacesExchanging Of LeadersBooks Of ProphecyHomestead

and when they recognized this was the very man who used to sit and beg at the Gate Beautiful, they were lost in awe and amazement at what had happened to him.

Verse ConceptsGatesMiracles, Responses ToAlmsgivingAltruismCharitySitting In The GatewayNamed GatesRecognising Peoplesurprises

But as the attendants did not find them when they got to the prison, they came back to report,

Verse ConceptsOfficersNot Findingjail

I have indeed seen the oppression of my people in Egypt, I have heard their groans, and I have come down to rescue them. Come now, I will send you back to Egypt.'

Verse ConceptsAnswered PrayerOppression, God's Attitude ToRescueAnswered PromisesGod Seeing Their AfflictionGod Saving From EnemiesOppressorsGod Sending His SonGod Sending Prophets

So God turned from them, abandoning them to the worship of the starry Host ??as it is written in the book of the prophets, Did you offer me victims and sacrifices during the forty years in the desert, O house of Israel?

Verse ConceptsBody40 To 50 YearsIsrael In The WildernessBooks Of ProphecyWorshiping Together

After bearing their testimony to the word of the Lord and preaching it, the apostles went back to Jerusalem, preaching the gospel to a number of the Samaritan villages;

Verse Conceptsevangelists, identity ofLordship, Human And DivineVillagesThe Gospel PreachedIndividuals going homeevangelizing

and he has seen a man called Ananias enter and lay his hands upon him to bring back his sight."

Verse ConceptsLaying On Hands To HealThose Who Saw Visions

When the disciples heard that Peter was at Lydda (for Joppa is not far from Lydda), they sent two men to beg him to "Come on to us without delay."

Verse ConceptsTwo Disciples

A second time the voice came back to him, "What God has cleansed, you must not regard as common."

Verse ConceptsAbolish, Temporary ThingsAcceptance, Of One AnotherSpeaking AgainLack Of HolinessGod's Callpork

This happened three times, and then the whole thing was drawn back into heaven.

Verse ConceptsCommunicating Three TimesThings Lifted Up

Setting sail from Paphos, Paul and his companions reached Perga in Pamphylia; John left them and went back to Jerusalem,

Verse ConceptsSeafaringProvincesInstabilityPeople Abandoning PeopleMissionaries

and after preaching the gospel to that town and making a number of disciples, they turned back to Lystra, Iconium and Antioch,

Verse ConceptsNewsMany In The ChurchMinistering To The UnsavedevangelizingChristians Are Called Disciples

Some days later, Paul said to Barnabas, "Come and let us go back to visit the brothers in every town where we have proclaimed the word of the Lord. Let us see how they are doing."

Verse ConceptsLordship, Human And DivineConverts To ChristianityMissionariesChristians Being Called Brothers

he said goodbye to them, telling them, "I will come back to you, if it is the will of God." Then, sailing from Ephesus,

Verse ConceptsGod, Sovereignty OfGuidance, God's Promises OfSeafaringFarewellsSea TravelGod's Will Be Donesailinggoodbyes

Some of the Asiarchs, who were friends of his, also sent to beg him not to venture into the amphitheatre.)

Verse Conceptsrisk

but, when our time was up, we started on our journey, escorted by them, women and children and all, till we got outside the town. Then, kneeling on the beach, we prayed

Verse ConceptsBeachesKneelingPrayer, As Asking GodPrayer, In The ChurchPrayer, Practicalities OfPrayer MeetingsSeashoresAll PeopleI Pray For Yougoodbyes

as the high priest and all the council of elders can testify. It was from them that I got letters to the brotherhood at Damascus, and then journeyed thither to bind those who had gathered there and bring them back to Jerusalem for punishment.

Verse ConceptsLettersSanhedrin

I have no wish to weary you, but I beg of you to grant us in your courtesy a brief hearing.

Verse ConceptsPay Attention To People!graciousness

Take some food then, I beg of you; it will keep you alive. You are going to be saved! Not a hair of your heads will perish."

Verse ConceptsHairsHeadsHealthKept Alive By GodHairs ProtectedEncouragementHairpreservation

When day broke, they could not recognize what land it was; however, they noticed a creek with a sandy beach, and resolved to see if they could run the ship ashore there.

Verse ConceptsSandSeashoresNot Knowing Where

So the anchors were cut away and left in the sea, while the crew unlashed the ropes that tied the rudders, hoisted the foresail to the breeze, and headed for the beach.

Verse ConceptsAnchorsShipsAbandoning ThingsUndoing Fasteningssailing

But who are you, my man, to speak back to God? Is something a man has moulded to ask him who has moulded it, "Why did you make me like this?"

Verse ConceptsPresumptionStriving With GodAnswering GodOther Unimportant PeopleMan's Relationship With His CreatorQuestioning GodMan's Relation To God

Whereas, if everybody prophesies, and some unbeliever or outsider comes in, he is exposed by all, brought to book by all;

Verse ConceptsNot Believing The GospelProphesying In The Church

Get back to your sober senses and avoid sin, for some of you ??and I say this to your shame ??some of you are insensible to God.

Verse ConceptsConversion, God's demands forSin, Avoidance OfWakefulnessRighteousnessIgnorance of GodMoving OnKnowing Godignoranceawakeningshunning