'Back' in the Bible

Jesus told him, "If it's my will for him to remain until I come back, how does that concern you? You must keep following me!"

So the rumor spread among the brothers that this disciple wasn't going to die. Yet Jesus didn't say to Peter that he wasn't going to die, but, "If it's my will for him to remain until I come back, how does that concern you?"

So, when they were together, they said to him, Lord, will you at this time give back the kingdom to Israel?

They asked, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up toward heaven? This same Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you saw him go up into heaven."

Then the disciples returned to Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet (Olive Grove), which is near Jerusalem, [only] a Sabbath day’s journey (less than one mile) away.

Starting from the baptism of John till he went up from us, one will have to be a witness with us of his coming back from death.

But God gave him back to life, having made him free from the pains of death because it was not possible for him to be overcome by it.

This Jesus God has given back to life, of which we all are witnesses.

And put to death the Lord of life; whom God gave back from the dead; of which fact we are witnesses.

Therefore repent and turn back, so that your sins may be wiped out, that seasons of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,

God, [after he] had raised up his servant, sent him to you first, to bless you by turning each [of you] back from your wickedness!"

Being greatly troubled because they were teaching the people and preaching Jesus as an example of the coming back from the dead.

Take note, all of you, and all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you put to death on the cross, whom God gave back from the dead, even through him is this man now before you completely well.

So they called Peter and John back in and ordered them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus.

And when they had been made free, they came back to their friends, and gave an account of all the things which the chief priests and the authorities had said to them.

And with great power the Apostles gave witness of the coming back of the Lord Jesus from the dead; and grace was on them all.

There was not a needy person among them, because those who were owners of land or houses were selling them, and bringing the proceeds of the sales

And kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles' feet.

But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?

The others, in fear, kept back from joining them: but the people made much of them;

When the Temple police got there, they did not find them in the prison. They came back and reported,

So the commander of the Temple guards went with his men to bring them back without force, because they were afraid of being stoned to death by the people.

When they brought them back, they made them stand before the Council, and the high priest began to question them.

The God of our fathers gave Jesus back to life, whom you had put to death, hanging him on a tree.

were carried back to Shechem, and were placed in the tomb that Abraham had bought for a sum of silver from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.

I have most certainly seen the oppression of My people in Egypt and have heard their groaning, and I have come down to rescue them. Now come, and I will send you to Egypt [as My messenger].’

To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,

Then, after they had testified and spoken the message of the Lord, they traveled back to Jerusalem, evangelizing many villages of the Samaritans.

He was going back, seated in his carriage, and was reading the book of the prophet Isaiah.

And when he had taken food his strength came back. And for some days he kept with the disciples who were in Damascus.

He extended his hand and helped her get up. Then he called the saints, including the widows, and gave her back to them alive.

This happened three times. Then the sheet was quickly taken back into heaven.

On the third day God gave him back to life, and let him be seen,

Not by all the people, but by witnesses marked out before by God, even by us, who took food and drink with him after he came back from the dead.

This happened three times. Then everything was pulled back up to heaven.

and when he found him, he brought him back to Antioch. For an entire year they met [with others] in the church and instructed large numbers; and it was in Antioch that the disciples were first called Christians.

On recognizing Peter's voice, she was so overjoyed that she didn't open the gate but ran back inside and announced that Peter was standing at the gate.

and Barnabas and Saul did turn back out of Jerusalem, having fulfilled the ministration, having taken also with them John, who was surnamed Mark.

Paul and his companions set sail from Paphos and came to Perga in Pamphylia. John, however, left them and went back to Jerusalem.

But God gave him back from the dead:

And about his coming back from the dead, never again to go to destruction, he has said these words, I will give you the holy and certain mercies of David.

But the disciples formed a circle around him, and he got up and went back to town. The next day, he went on with Barnabas to Derbe.

As they were proclaiming the good news in that city, they discipled a large number of people. Then they went back to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch,

From there they sailed back to Antioch where they had been entrusted to the grace of God for the work they had now completed.

And when there had been much discussion, Peter got up and said to them, My brothers, you have knowledge that some time back it was God's pleasure that by my mouth the good news might be given to the Gentiles so that they might have faith.

""After this, I will come back and set up David's fallen tent again. I will restore its ruined places and set it up again

wherefore I judge: not to trouble those who from the nations do turn back to God,

After spending some time there, they were sent back in peace by the brothers to those who had sent them. But Paul and Barnabas, along with many others, remained in Antioch teaching and proclaiming the message of the Lord. After some time had passed, Paul said to Barnabas, “Let’s go back and visit the brothers in every town where we have preached the message of the Lord and see how they’re doing.” Barnabas wanted to take along John Mark. But Paul did not think it appropriate to take along this man who had deserted them in Pamphylia and had not gone on with them to the work. There was such a sharp disagreement that they parted company, and Barnabas took Mark with him and sailed off to Cyprus. Then Paul chose Silas and departed, after being commended to the grace of the Lord by the brothers. He traveled through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches.

After some time had passed, Paul said to Barnabas, “Let’s go back and visit the brothers in every town where we have preached the message of the Lord and see how they’re doing.”

but Paul thought it not well to take with them him who had abandoned them, going back from Pamphylia, and had not gone with them to the work.

This answer the lictors took back to the praetors, who were alarmed when they were told that Paul and Silas were Roman citizens.

Saying to them clearly and openly that Christ had to be put to death and come back to life again; and that this Jesus, whom, he said, I am preaching to you, is the Christ.

And some of those who were supporters of the theories of the Epicureans and the Stoics, had a meeting with him. And some said, What is this talker of foolish words saying? And others, He seems to be a preacher of strange gods: because he was preaching of Jesus and his coming back from the dead.

Because a day has been fixed in which all the world will be judged in righteousness by the man who has been marked out by him for this work; of which he has given a sign to all men by giving him back from the dead.

Now on hearing about the coming back from death, some of them made sport of it, but others said, Let us go more fully into this another time.

but he said good-bye and stated, “I’ll come back to you again, if God wills.” Then he set sail from Ephesus.

and stayed three months. When he was about to set sail for Syria, a plot was devised against him by the Jews, so a decision was made to go back through Macedonia.

Then he went back upstairs, broke bread, and ate. He talked with them for a long time, until dawn, and then left.

And how I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have shewed you, and have taught you publickly, and from house to house,

for I did not shrink back from declaring to you the whole plan of God.

and said goodbye to each other. Then we reboarded the ship, and they went back home.

Now they have been told about you, that you are teaching all the Jews who are living among the Gentiles to turn away from [the Law of] Moses, advising them not to circumcise their children or to live according to the [Mosaic] customs.

But some in the crowd were shouting one thing and others something else; and since he could not determine the facts because of the uproar, he ordered that Paul be taken to the barracks [in the tower of Antonia].

as the high priest and the whole council of elders can testify about me. I also received letters from them to the brothers in Damascus, and I was going there to tie up those who were there and bring them back to Jerusalem to be punished.

came to [see] me, and standing near, he said to me, ‘Brother Saul, receive your sight!’ And at that very moment I [recovered my sight and] looked up at him.

“After I came back to Jerusalem and was praying in the temple complex, I went into a visionary state

the commanding officer ordered Paul to be brought back into the barracks. He told them to interrogate Paul by beating him with a lash so that he could find out the reason the crowd was shouting at Paul in this way.

Paul said, "But I was born a citizen." Immediately those who were about to examine him stepped back, and the tribune was afraid when he found out that Paul was a Roman citizen and that he had tied him up.

But when Paul saw that half of them were Sadducees and the rest Pharisees, he said in the Sanhedrin, Brothers, I am a Pharisee, and the son of Pharisees: I am here to be judged on the question of the hope of the coming back from the dead.

For the Sadducees say that there is no coming back from the dead, and no angels or spirits: but the Pharisees have belief in all these.

And as the dissension became even greater, the commander, fearing that Paul would be torn to pieces by them, ordered the troops to go down and forcibly take him from them, and bring him to the barracks.

But on the day after, they sent the horsemen on with him, and went back to their place:

Hoping in God for that which they themselves are looking for, that there will be a coming back from the dead for upright men and wrongdoers.

After many years, I have come back to my people to bring gifts for the poor and to offer sacrifices.

But only this one thing which I said among them in a loud voice, I am this day being judged on the question of the coming back from the dead.

So after they came back here with me, I did not postpone the case, but the next day I sat on the judgment seat and ordered the man to be brought.

but to those in Damascus first, and to those in Jerusalem, to all the region also of Judea, and to the nations, I was preaching to reform, and to turn back unto God, doing works worthy of reformation;

That the Christ would go through pain, and being the first to come back from the dead, would give light to the people and to the Gentiles.

But when the fourteenth night had come, as we were driven back and forth in the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors surmised that they were drawing near to some land.

Then, fearing that by chance we might come on to the rocks, they let down four hooks from the back of the ship, and made prayers for the coming of day.

And coming to a point between two seas, they got the ship to land; and the front part was fixed in the sand and not able to be moved, but the back part was broken by the force of the waves.

for made gross was the heart of this people, and with the ears they heard heavily, and their eyes they did close, lest they may see with the eyes, and with the heart may understand, and be turned back, and I may heal them.

who "will pay back to everyone according to their works:"

But for us in addition, to whose account it will be put, if we have faith in him who made Jesus our Lord come back again from the dead,

Having knowledge that because Christ has come back from the dead, he will never again go down to the dead; death has no more power over him.

For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father!”

He who did not keep back his only Son, but gave him up for us all, will he not with him freely give us all things?

But who are you, a mere man, to talk back to God? Will what is formed say to the one who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”

or "Who will go down into the depths?' (that is, to bring the Messiah back from the dead)."

Because, if you say with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and have faith in your heart that God has made him come back from the dead, you will have salvation:

Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway.

For, if by their putting away, the rest of men have been made friends with God, what will their coming back again be, but life from the dead?

After all, if you were cut off from what is naturally a wild olive tree, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much easier it will be for these natural branches to be grafted back into their own olive tree!

Or who has given him something only to have him pay it back?"

Do not pay anyone back evil for evil, but focus your thoughts on what is right in the sight of all people.

Do not take revenge, dear friends, but leave room for God's wrath. For it is written, "Vengeance belongs to me. I will pay them back, declares the Lord."

And for this purpose Christ went into death and came back again, that he might be the Lord of the dead and of the living.

And God who made the Lord Jesus come back from the dead will do the same for us by his power.

Do not keep back from one another what is right, but only for a short time, and by agreement, so that you may give yourselves to prayer, and come together again; so that Satan may not get the better of you through your loss of self-control.

And he was put in the place of the dead; and on the third day he came back from the dead, as it says in the Writings;