'Back' in the Bible

He sent them to Bethlehem and said, “Go and search carefully for the child. When you find Him, report back to me so that I too can go and worship Him.”

And being warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, they returned to their own country by another route.

Then it says, ‘I’ll go back to my house that I came from.’ And returning, it finds the house vacant, swept, and put in order.

For this people’s heart has grown callous;their ears are hard of hearing,and they have shut their eyes;otherwise they might see with their eyesand hear with their ears,understand with their heartsand turn back—and I would cure them.

Since he had no way to pay it back, his master commanded that he, his wife, his children, and everything he had be sold to pay the debt.

“At this, his fellow slave fell down and began begging him, ‘Be patient with me, and I will pay you back.’

“Caesar’s,” they said to Him.Then He said to them, “Therefore give back to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”

And a man in the field must not go back to get his clothes.

then you should have deposited my money with the bankers. And when I returned I would have received my money back with interest.

Then Jesus told him, “Put your sword back in its place because all who take up a sword will perish by a sword.

Suddenly there was a violent earthquake, because an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and approached the tomb. He rolled back the stone and was sitting on it.

so thatthey may look and look,yet not perceive;they may listen and listen,yet not understand;otherwise, they might turn back—and be forgiven.”

But He would not let him; instead, He told him, “Go back home to your own people, and report to them how much the Lord has done for you and how He has had mercy on you.”

When she went back to her home, she found her child lying on the bed, and the demon was gone.

If anyone says to you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ say, ‘The Lord needs it and will send it back here right away.’”

Then Jesus told them, “Give back to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” And they were amazed at Him.

And a man in the field must not go back to get his clothes.

When the days of his ministry were completed, he went back home.

He then rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. And the eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fixed on Him.

If anyone hits you on the cheek, offer the other also. And if anyone takes away your coat, don’t hold back your shirt either.

Give to everyone who asks you, and from one who takes your things, don’t ask for them back.

Give, and it will be given to you; a good measure—pressed down, shaken together, and running over—will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.”

Since they could not pay it back, he graciously forgave them both. So, which of them will love him more?”

“Go back to your home, and tell all that God has done for you.” And off he went, proclaiming throughout the town all that Jesus had done for him.

They answered, “John the Baptist; others, Elijah; still others, that one of the ancient prophets has come back.”

As the boy was still approaching, the demon knocked him down and threw him into severe convulsions. But Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, cured the boy, and gave him back to his father.

But Jesus said to him, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”

The next day he took out two denarii, gave them to the innkeeper, and said, ‘Take care of him. When I come back I’ll reimburse you for whatever extra you spend.’

“When an unclean spirit comes out of a man, it roams through waterless places looking for rest, and not finding rest, it then says, ‘I’ll go back to my house where I came from.’

He also said to the one who had invited Him, “When you give a lunch or a dinner, don’t invite your friends, your brothers, your relatives, or your rich neighbors, because they might invite you back, and you would be repaid.

“So the slave came back and reported these things to his master. Then in anger, the master of the house told his slave, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the city, and bring in here the poor, maimed, blind, and lame!’

‘Your brother is here,’ he told him, ‘and your father has slaughtered the fattened calf because he has him back safe and sound.’

And if he sins against you seven times in a day, and comes back to you seven times, saying, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.”

On that day, a man on the housetop, whose belongings are in the house, must not come down to get them. Likewise the man who is in the field must not turn back.

But Zacchaeus stood there and said to the Lord, “Look, I’ll give half of my possessions to the poor, Lord! And if I have extorted anything from anyone, I’ll pay back four times as much!”

He called 10 of his slaves, gave them 10 minas, and told them, ‘Engage in business until I come back.’

“Well then,” He told them, “give back to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and to God the things that are God’s.”

But I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail. And you, when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.”

Then Herod, with his soldiers, treated Him with contempt, mocked Him, dressed Him in a brilliant robe, and sent Him back to Pilate.

Neither has Herod, because he sent Him back to us. Clearly, He has done nothing to deserve death.

We are punished justly, because we’re getting back what we deserve for the things we did, but this man has done nothing wrong.”

“Go call your husband,” He told her, “and come back here.”

From that moment many of His disciples turned back and no longer accompanied Him.

“Go,” He told him, “wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means “Sent”). So he left, washed, and came back seeing.

Having said this, she went back and called her sister Mary, saying in private, “The Teacher is here and is calling for you.”

Jesus knew that the Father had given everything into His hands, that He had come from God, and that He was going back to God.

So he leaned back against Jesus and asked Him, “Lord, who is it?”

If I go away and prepare a place for you, I will come back and receive you to Myself, so that where I am you may be also.

When He told them, “I am He,” they stepped back and fell to the ground.

Then Pilate went back into the headquarters, summoned Jesus, and said to Him, “Are You the King of the Jews?”

They shouted back, “Not this man, but Barabbas!” Now Barabbas was a revolutionary.

He went back into the headquarters and asked Jesus, “Where are You from?” But Jesus did not give him an answer.

So Peter turned around and saw the disciple Jesus loved following them. That disciple was the one who had leaned back against Jesus at the supper and asked, “Lord, who is the one that’s going to betray You?”

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,

However, he kept back part of the proceeds with his wife’s knowledge, and brought a portion of it and laid it at the apostles’ feet.

Then Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back part of the proceeds from the field?

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.

Our ancestors were unwilling to obey him, but pushed him away, and in their hearts turned back to Egypt.

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

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

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

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 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.

and that I did not shrink back from proclaiming to you anything that was profitable or from teaching it to you in public and from house to house.

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

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

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!”

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?”

I did not go up to Jerusalem to those who had become apostles before me; instead I went to Arabia and came back to Damascus.

But now, since you know God, or rather have become known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and bankrupt elemental forces? Do you want to be enslaved to them all over again?

knowing that whatever good each one does, slave or free, he will receive this back from the Lord.

For the wrongdoer will be paid back for whatever wrong he has done, and there is no favoritism. >

Slaves are to be submissive to their masters in everything, and to be well-pleasing, not talking back

I am sending him back to you as a part of myself.

For perhaps this is why he was separated from you for a brief time, so that you might get him back permanently,

But My righteous one will live by faith;and if he draws back,I have no pleasure in him.

But we are not those who draw back and are destroyed, but those who have faith and obtain life.

He considered God to be able even to raise someone from the dead, and as an illustration, he received him back.

My brothers, if any among you strays from the truth, and someone turns him back,

not paying back evil for evil or insult for insult but, on the contrary, giving a blessing, since you were called for this, so that you can inherit a blessing.

For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy command delivered to them.

Something like a sea of glass, similar to crystal, was also before the throne. Four living creatures covered with eyes in front and in back were in the middle and around the throne.

Then I saw in the right hand of the One seated on the throne a scroll with writing on the inside and on the back, sealed with seven seals.

Pay her back the way she also paid,and double it according to her works.In the cup in which she mixed,mix a double portion for her.