But while he was thinking of doing this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, and said, "Joseph, descendant of David, do not fear to take Mary, your wife, to your home, for it is through the influence of the holy Spirit that she is to become a mother.

Be quick and come to terms with your opponent while you are on the way to court with him, or he may hand you over to the judge, and the judge may hand you over to the officer, and you will be thrown into prison.

while the heirs to the kingdom will be driven into the darkness outside, there to weep and grind their teeth!"

While Jesus was at home at table, a number of tax-collectors and irreligious people came in and joined Jesus and his disciples at table.

Then the disciples of John came up to him and said, "Why is it that we and the Pharisees are keeping the fast, while your disciples are not keeping it?"

While he was still speaking, his mother and his brothers came up and stood outside the crowd, wanting to speak to him.

And such great crowds gathered about him that he got into a boat and sat down in it, while all the people stood on the shore.

but it takes no real root in him, and lasts only a little while, and when trouble or persecution comes because of the message, he gives it up at once.

but while people were asleep his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and went away.

And while he wanted him killed, he was afraid of the people; for they considered him a prophet.

And he immediately made his disciples get into the boat and cross before him to the other side while he dismissed the crowds.

"But if your brother wrongs you go to him and show him his fault while you are alone with him. If he listens to you, you have won back your brother.

While the Pharisees were still gathered there, Jesus asked them,

But while they were gone to buy it, the bridegroom arrived, and the ones that were ready went in with him to the wedding banquet, and the door was closed.

a woman came up to him with an alabaster flask of very expensive perfume and poured it upon his head, while he was at table.

Then Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to the disciples, "Sit down here while I go over yonder and pray."

A little while after the bystanders came up to Peter and said, "You are certainly one of them too, for your accent shows it!"

And while the high priests and elders were making their charges against him, he made no answer.

Now while he was on the bench his wife sent to him to say, "Do not have anything to do with that upright man, for I have just had a painful experience in a dream about him."

While they were on their way, some of the guard went into the city and reported to the high priests all that had happened.

and said to them, "Tell people that his disciples came in the night and stole him away while you were asleep.

and such a crowd gathered that after a while there was no room even around the door, and he was telling them his message.

Jesus said to them, "Can wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them they cannot fast.

Then he began again to teach by the seashore. And a crowd gathered around him so great that he got into a boat and sat in it, a little way from the shore, while all the people were on the land close to the water.

but it takes no real root in them and they last only a little while; then when trouble or persecution comes because of the message they give it up at once.

and then sleeping at night and getting up by day, while the seed sprouts and comes up, without his knowing it.

And he said to them, "Come away by yourselves to some quiet place, and rest a little while." For people were coming and going in large numbers, and they had no time even for meals.

He immediately had his disciples get into the boat and cross before him to the other side toward Bethsaida, while he was dismissing the crowd.

They came to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to his disciples, "Sit down here while I pray."

Just at that moment, while he was still speaking, Judas, who was one of the Twelve, came up, and with him a crowd of men with swords and clubs, from the high priests, scribes, and elders.

for while many gave false testimony against him their evidence did not agree.

While Peter was down in the courtyard, one of the high priest's maids came up,

But he denied it again. And again a little while after, the bystanders said to Peter, "You certainly are one of them, for you are a Galilean!"

She went and told it to his old companions, while they were mourning and weeping.

And they went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed their message by the signs that attended it.

while all the throng of people was outside, praying at the hour of the incense offering.

While they were there, the time came for her child to be born,

In the fifteenth year of the reign of the Emperor Tiberius, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod governor of Galilee, while his brother Philip was governor of the territory of Iturea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias was the governor of Abilene,

Jesus said to them, "Can you make wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them?

The ones on the rock are those who receive the message joyfully when they first hear it, but it takes no real root. They believe for a little while, and then in the time of trial they draw back.

Even while the boy was coming, the demon threw him down and convulsed him, but Jesus reproved the foul spirit and cured the boy and gave him back to his father.

And they were all amazed at the power of God. While everybody was full of wonder at all that he was doing, he said to his disciples,

There you will weep and gnash your teeth when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the Kingdom of God, while you are put outside.

And if he cannot, while the other is still far away, he sends envoys to him and asks on what terms he will make peace.

And he got up and went to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him, and pitied him, and ran and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

And Abraham said, 'My child, remember that you received your blessings in your lifetime, and Lazarus had his misfortunes in his; and now he is being comforted here, while you are in anguish.

instead of saying to him, 'Get my supper ready, and dress yourself, and wait on me while I eat and drink, and you can eat and drink afterward'?

And he called in ten of his slaves and gave them each twenty dollars and told them to trade with it while he was gone.

While all the people were listening, he said to his disciples,

While he was still speaking, a crowd of people came up, with the man called Judas, one of the Twelve, at their head, and he stepped up to Jesus to kiss him.

while the people stood looking on. Even the leading councilors jeered at him, and said, "He has saved others, let him save himself, if he is really God's Christ, his Chosen One!"

Remember what he told you while he was still in Galilee,

While they were still talking of these things, he himself stood among them.

So the Word became flesh and blood and lived for a while among us, abounding in blessing and truth, and we saw the honor God had given him, such honor as an only son receives from his father.

While he was on the way, his slaves met him and told him that his boy was going to live.

The sick man answered, "I have nobody, sir, to put me into the pool when the water stirs, but while I am getting down someone else steps in ahead of me."

He was the lamp that burned and shone, and you were ready to be gladdened for a while by his light.

Jesus said all this while he was teaching in the synagogue at Capernaum.

Jesus said, "I am to be with you a little while longer, and then I am going to him who has sent me.

We must carry on the work of him who has sent me while the daylight lasts. Night is coming, when no one can do any work.

They gave a dinner for him there, and Martha waited on them, while Lazarus was at the table with him.

Jesus said to them, "You will have the light only a little while longer. Go on while you still have the light, so that darkness may not overtake you, for those who go about in the dark do not know where they are going.

While you have the light believe in the light, that you may become sons of light." With these words Jesus went away, and disappeared from them.

In a little while the world will not see me any more, but you will still see me, because I shall live on, and you will live on too.

"I have told you this while I am still staying with you,

"In a little while you will not see me any longer, and a little while after, you will see me again."

Then some of his disciples said to one another, "What does he mean when he tells us, 'In a little while you will not see me any longer, and a little while after, you will see me again,' and 'Because I am going away to the Father'?"

So they kept saying "What does he mean by 'In a little while'? We do not know what he is talking about."

Jesus saw that they wanted to ask him a question, and he said to them, "Are you asking one another about my saying 'In a little while you will not see me any longer, and a little while after, you will see me again'?

I tell you, you will weep and wail while the world will be happy; you will grieve, but your grief will change to happiness.

Now I am to be no longer in this world, but they are to remain in the world, while I return to you. Holy Father, keep them by your power which you gave me, so that they may be one just as we are.

while Peter stood outside at the door. So this other disciple, the acquaintance of the high priest, went out and spoke to the woman at the door and brought Peter in.

On the day after the Sabbath, very early in the morning while it was still dark, Mary of Magdala went to the tomb, and she saw that the stone had been removed from it.

And while they were gazing after him into the sky, two men dressed in white suddenly stood beside them,

But a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the Law highly regarded by all the people, got up in the council and ordered the men to be removed for a while,

while we devote ourselves to prayer and to delivering the message."

while Philip found himself at Ashdod and went on telling the good news in all the towns all the way to Caesarea.

The next day, while they were still on their way, and were just getting near the town, Peter went up on the housetop about noon to pray.

He got very hungry, and wanted something to eat. While they were getting it ready, he fell into a trance,

While Peter was still wondering what the vision he had had could mean, the men whom Cornelius had sent had asked the way to Simon's house and reached the door,

"I was praying in the town of Joppa, and while in a trance I had a vision. Something like a great sheet came down out of the sky, lowered by its four corners. It came right down to me,

This quieted the whole meeting, and they listened while Barnabas and Paul told of the signs and wonders which God had done among the heathen through them.

He went to Derbe and Lystra also. At Lystra there was a disciple named Timothy whose mother was a Jewish Christian while his father was a Greek,

Then the brothers immediately sent Paul off to the coast, while Silas and Timothy stayed behind.

While Paul waited for them at Athens, he was exasperated to see how idolatrous the city was.

While God overlooked those times of ignorance, he now calls upon all men everywhere to repent,

While Gallio was governor of Greece the Jews made a concerted attack upon Paul, and brought him before the governor.

It was while Apollos was in Corinth that Paul, after passing through the interior, reached Ephesus. Finding some disciples there,

He sent two of his assistants, Timothy and Erastus, to Macedonia, while he stayed on for a while in Asia.

while we sailed from Philippi after the festival of Unleavened Bread, and joined them at Troas five days later. There we stayed a week.

For the Sadducees hold that there is no resurrection and that there are no angels or spirits, while the Pharisees believe in all three.

But they struck a shoal and ran the ship aground. The bow struck and could not be moved, while the stern began to break up under the strain.

For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if he dies, the marriage law no longer applies to her.

So if she marries another man while her husband is alive, she is called an adulteress, but if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and can marry someone else without being an adulteress.

while Israel, straining after a law that should bring uprightness, did not come up to it.

One man's faith allows him to eat anything, while the overscrupulous man eats nothing but vegetables.

One man thinks one day better than another, while another thinks them all alike. Everybody must be fully convinced in his own mind.

when I go to Spain I hope to see you on my way there, and to have you see me off on my journey, after I have enjoyed being with you for a while.

and there is no gift that you lack even while you are waiting for our Lord Jesus Christ to reappear,

for I resolved, while I was with you, to forget everything but Jesus Christ and his crucifixion.