'Back' in the Bible

He will bring many of Israel's descendants back to the Lord their God.

Now Mary stayed with Elizabeth about three months and then went back home.

When the angels had left them and gone back to heaven, the shepherds told one another, "Let's go to Bethlehem and see what has taken place that the Lord has told us about."

Then he went back with them, returning to Nazareth and remaining in submission to them. His mother continued to treasure all these things in her heart.

Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. While the eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fixed on him,

If someone strikes you on the cheek, offer him the other one as well, and if someone takes your coat, don't keep back your shirt, either.

Keep on giving to everyone who asks you for something, and if anyone takes what is yours, do not insist on getting it back.

If you lend to those from whom you expect to get something back, what thanks do you deserve? Even sinners lend to sinners to get back what they lend.

The man who had been dead sat up and began to speak, and Jesus gave him back to his mother.

When they couldn't pay it back, he generously canceled the debts for both of them. Now which of them will love him more?"

Then all the people from the region surrounding the Gerasenes asked Jesus to leave them, because they were terrified. So he got into a boat and started back.

When Jesus came back, the crowd welcomed him, because everyone was expecting him.

by others that Elijah had appeared, and by still others that one of the ancient prophets had come back to life.

The apostles came back and told Jesus everything they had done. Then he took them away with him privately to a city called Bethsaida.

They answered, "Some say John the Baptist, others Elijah, and still others one of the ancient prophets who has come back to life."

Even while the boy was coming, the demon knocked him to the ground and threw him into convulsions. But Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, healed the boy, and gave him back to his father.

Jesus told him, "No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God."

If a peaceful person lives there, your greeting of peace will remain with him. But if that's not the case, your greeting will come back to you.

The 70 disciples came back and joyously reported, "Lord, even the demons are submitting to us in your name!"

The next day, he took out two denarii and gave them to the innkeeper, saying, "Take good care of him. If you spend more than that, I'll repay you when I come back.'

"Whenever an unclean spirit goes out of a person, it wanders through dry places looking for a place to rest but doesn't find any. So it says, "I will go back to my home that I left.'

When it gets back home, it finds it swept clean and put in order.

But God told him, "You fool! This very night your life will be demanded back from you. Now who will get the things you've accumulated?'

But if that servant says to himself, "My master is taking a long time to come back,' and begins to beat the other servants and to eat, drink, and get drunk,

I tell you, you will never get out of there until you pay back the last penny!"

"So the servant went back and reported all this to his master. Then the master of the house became angry and told his servant, "Go quickly into the streets and alleys of the town and bring back the poor, the crippled, the blind, and the lame.'

Because my son was dead and has come back to life. He was lost and has been found.' And they began to celebrate.

"Now the father's older son was in the field. As he was coming back to the house, he heard music and dancing.

The servant told him, "Your brother has come home, and your father has killed the fattened calf because he got him back safely.'

But this son of yours spent your money on prostitutes, and when he came back, you killed the fattened calf for him!'

But we had to celebrate and rejoice, because this brother of yours was dead and has come back to life. He was lost and has been found.'"

Even if he sins against you seven times in a day and comes back to you seven times and says, "I repent,' you must forgive him."

But one of them, when he saw that he had been healed, came back and praised God with a loud voice.

"The person who is on the housetop that day must not come down to get his belongings out of his house. The person in the field, too, must not turn back to what's left behind.

When Jesus heard this, he told him, "You still need to do one thing. Sell everything you have and give the money to the destitute, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come back and follow me."

He called ten of his servants and gave them ten coins. He told them, "Invest this money until I come back.'

"After he was appointed king, the prince came back. He ordered the servants to whom he had given the money to be called so he could find out what they had earned by investing.

At the right time he sent a servant to the farmers in order to get his share of the produce of the vineyard. But the farmers beat him and sent him back empty-handed.

He sent another servant, and they beat him, too, treated him shamefully, and sent him back empty-handed.

So he told them, "Then 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 own faith may not fail. When you have come back, you must strengthen your brothers."

Even Herod and his soldiers treated him with contempt and made fun of him. He put a magnificent robe on Jesus and sent him back to Pilate.

Neither does Herod, because he sent him back to us! Indeed, this man has done nothing to deserve death.

Then they went back and prepared spices and perfumes, and on the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.

and didn't find his body there, so they came back and told us that they had seen a vision of angels, who were saying that he was alive.

They got up right away, went back to Jerusalem, and found the eleven disciples and their companions all together.