'Around' in the Bible

John wore a camel-hair garment with a leather belt around his waist and ate locusts and wild honey.

And his fame went out straightway into the whole region of Galilee around.

So many people gathered together that there was no longer room [for them], not even near the door; and Jesus was discussing with them the word [of God].

After looking around at them with anger and sorrow at the hardness of their hearts, He told the man, “Stretch out your hand.” So he stretched it out, and his hand was restored.

Jerusalem, Idumea, beyond the Jordan, and around Tyre and Sidon. The large crowd came to Him because they heard about everything He was doing.

Then his mother and his brothers arrived. Milling around outside, they sent for him, continuously summoning him.

A crowd was sitting around Him and told Him, “Look, Your mother, Your brothers, and Your sisters are outside asking for You.”

And looking about at those who were sitting in a circle around Him, He said, “Here are My mother and My brothers!

Again He began to teach by the sea, and a very large crowd gathered around Him. So He got into a boat on the sea and sat down, while the whole crowd was on the shore facing the sea.

When He was alone with the Twelve, those who were around Him asked Him about the parables.

so that "they may see clearly but not perceive, and they may hear clearly but not understand, otherwise they might turn around and be forgiven.'"

When Jesus had crossed over again by boat to the other side, a large crowd gathered around Him while He was by the sea.

Jesus went with him, and a large crowd followed and pressed around him.

At once Jesus realized in Himself that power had gone out from Him. He turned around in the crowd and said, “Who touched My robes?”

His disciples said to Him, “You see the crowd pressing in around You [from all sides], and You ask, ‘Who touched Me?’”

So He was looking around to see who had done this.

The girl got up at once and began to walk around (she was twelve years old). They were completely astonished at this.

And He was amazed at their unbelief.Now He was going around the villages in a circuit, teaching.

The apostles gathered around Jesus and reported to Him all that they had done and taught.

send them away that they may go into the country and villages around, and buy themselves bread, for they have not anything they can eat.

He saw them being battered as they rowed, because the wind was against them. Around three in the morning He came toward them walking on the sea and wanted to pass by them.

they ran through that whole country around, and began to carry about those that were ill on couches, where they heard that he was.

The Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around Him.

The man looked up and said, "I see people, but they look like trees walking around."

Then Jesus and his disciples set out for the villages around Caesarea Philippi. On the way he was asking his disciples, "Who do people say I am?"

But turning around and looking at His disciples, He rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind Me, Satan, because you’re not thinking about God’s concerns, but man’s!”

Then suddenly, looking around, they no longer saw anyone with them except Jesus alone.

When they came to the disciples, they saw a large crowd around them and scribes disputing with them.

So they brought him to Him. When the spirit saw Him, it immediately convulsed the boy. He fell to the ground and rolled around, foaming at the mouth.

“But whoever causes the downfall of one of these little ones who believe in Me—it would be better for him if a heavy millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea.

Then Jesus left that place and went into the territory of Judea on the other side of the Jordan. Crowds gathered around him as usual, and he began to teach them again as was his custom.

Jesus looked around and said to His disciples, “How hard it is for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God!”

Looking at them, Jesus said, “With people [as far as it depends on them] it is impossible, but not with God; for all things are possible with God.”

And He went into Jerusalem and into the temple complex. After looking around at everything, since it was already late, He went out to Bethany with the Twelve.

Then He began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug out a pit for a winepress, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and went away.

He also said in His teaching, “Beware of the scribes, who want to go around in long robes, and who want greetings in the marketplaces,

Now a certain young man, having a linen cloth wrapped around his naked body, was following Him. They caught hold of him,

Some of them began to spit on him. They blindfolded him and kept hitting him with their fists and telling him, "Prophesy!" Even the servants took him and slapped him around.

The servant girl saw him and again told those who were standing around, "This man is one of them!"

Around three o'clock Jesus cried out with a loud voice, "Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?" which means, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"