'Began' in the Bible

Then the people of Jerusalem, all Judea, and the entire region along the Jordan began flocking to him,

So the Devil left him, and angels came and began ministering to him.

From then on, Jesus began to announce, "Repent, because the kingdom from heaven is near!"

and he began to teach them:

He touched her hand, and the fever left her. Then she got up and began serving him.

Suddenly, a violent storm came up on the sea, so that the boat began to be swamped by the waves. Yet Jesus kept sleeping.

So the demons began to plead with Jesus, saying, "If you drive us out, send us into that herd of pigs."

While he was having dinner at Matthew's home, many tax collectors and sinners arrived and began eating with Jesus and his disciples.

As soon as the demon had been driven out, the man began to speak. The crowds were amazed and said, "Nothing like this has ever been seen in Israel!"

Then Jesus began traveling throughout all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every disease and every illness.

As they were leaving, Jesus began to speak to the crowds about John. "What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?

Then Jesus began to denounce the cities in which most of his miracles had taken place, because they didn't repent.

At that time, Jesus walked through the grain fields on a Sabbath. His disciples became hungry and began picking heads of grain to eat.

Then he began to tell them many things in parables. He said, "Listen! A farmer went out to sow.

He went to his hometown and began teaching the people in their synagogue in such a way that they were amazed and asked, "Where did this man get this wisdom and these miracles?

But when he noticed the strong wind, he was frightened. As he began to sink, he shouted, "Lord, save me!"

Then the men in the boat began to worship Jesus, saying, "You certainly are the Son of God!"

Suddenly, a Canaanite woman from that territory came near and began to shout, "Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David! My daughter is severely demon-possessed!"

As they began to discuss this among themselves, they kept saying, "We didn't bring along any bread."

From that time on, Jesus began to show his disciples that he would have to go to Jerusalem and suffer a great deal because of the elders, the high priests, and the scribes. Then he would be killed, but on the third day he would be raised.

Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him, saying, "God be merciful to you, Lord! This must never happen to you!"

Then his fellow servant fell down and began begging him, "Be patient with me and I will repay you!'

When they received it, they began to complain to the landowner,

Many people in the crowd spread their own coats on the road, while others began cutting down branches from the trees and spreading them on the road.

They began discussing this among themselves: "If we say, "From heaven,' he will ask us, "Then why didn't you believe him?' But if we say, "From humans,' we are afraid of the crowd, because everyone regards John as a prophet."

and from then on he began to look for an opportunity to betray Jesus.

Feeling deeply distressed, each one began to ask him, "Surely I am not the one, Lord?"

Taking Peter and the two sons of Zebedee with him, he began to be grieved and troubled.

Then he began to curse violently. "I don't know the man!" he swore solemnly. Just then a rooster crowed.

Twisting some thorns into a victor's crown, they placed it on his head and put a stick in his right hand. They knelt down in front of him and began making fun of him, saying, "Long live the king of the Jews!"

Then they went to Capernaum. As soon as it was the Sabbaths, Jesus went into the synagogue and began to teach.

At once his fame began to spread throughout the surrounding region of Galilee.

He went up to her, took her by the hand, and helped her up. The fever left her, and she began serving them.

Then a leper came to Jesus and began pleading with him. He fell on his knees and told him, "If you want to, you can make me clean."

But when the man left, he began to proclaim it freely. He spread the news so widely that Jesus could no longer enter a town openly, but had to stay out in deserted places. Still, people kept coming to him from everywhere.

So the man got up, immediately picked up his mat, and went out in front of all of them. As a result, all of the people were amazed and began to glorify God as they kept on saying, "We have never seen anything like this!"

Jesus happened to be going through the grain fields on a Sabbath. As they made their way, his disciples began picking the heads of grain.

Immediately the Pharisees and Herodians went out and began to plot how to kill him.

So Jesus called them together and began to speak to them in parables. "How can Satan drive out Satan?

Then Jesus began to teach again beside the sea. Such a large crowd gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat in it, while the entire crowd remained beside the sea on the shore.

He began teaching them many things in parables. While he was teaching them he said,

When he was alone with the Twelve and those around him, they began to ask him about the parables.

A violent windstorm came up, and the waves began breaking into the boat, so that the boat was rapidly becoming swamped.

So they began to beg Jesus to leave their territory.

So the man left and began proclaiming in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him. And everyone was utterly amazed.

When the Sabbath came, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were utterly amazed. "Where did this man get all these things?" they asked. "What is this wisdom that has been given to him? What great miracles are being done by his hands!

He called the Twelve and began to send them out two by two, giving them authority over unclean spirits.

When he got out of the boat, he saw a large crowd. He had compassion for them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd, and he began to teach them many things.

but when they saw him walking on the sea, they thought it was a ghost and began to scream.

They ran all over the countryside and began carrying the sick on their mats to any place where they heard he was.

When he had left the crowd and gone home, his disciples began asking him about the parable.

The man's hearing and speech were restored at once, and he began to talk normally.

The Pharisees arrived and began arguing with Jesus. They tested him by demanding from him a sign from heaven.

Then he began to ask them, "But who do you say I am?"

Then he began to teach them that the Son of Man would have to suffer a great deal and be rejected by the elders, the high priests, and the scribes. Then he would be killed, but after three days he would rise again.

Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. But turning and looking at his disciples, Jesus rebuked Peter, saying, "Get behind me, Satan, because you're not thinking God's thoughts, but human thoughts!"

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.

Then Peter began to say to him, "See, we have left everything and followed you."

Once again, Jesus took the Twelve aside and began to tell them what was going to happen to him. "Pay attention! We're going up to Jerusalem. The Son of Man will be handed over to the high priests and the scribes, and they'll condemn him to death. Then they'll hand him over to the unbelievers,

When the ten other disciples heard this, they began to be furious with James and John.

When he heard that Jesus of Nazareth was there, he began to shout, "Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!"

Jesus told him, "Go. Your faith has made you well." At once the man could see again, and he began to follow Jesus down the road.

When they came to Jerusalem, he went into the Temple and began to throw out those who were selling and those who were buying in the Temple. He overturned the moneychangers' tables and the chairs of those who sold doves.

Then he began to teach them: "It is written, is it not, "My house is to be called a house of prayer for all nations'? But you've turned it into a hideout for bandits!"

When the high priests and elders heard this, they began to look for a way to kill him, because they were afraid of him, since the whole crowd was amazed at his teaching.

They began discussing this among themselves. "If we say, "From heaven,' he'll say, "Then why didn't you believe him?'

Then Jesus began to speak to them in parables. "A man planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a pit for the wine press, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and went abroad.

Jesus began to say to them, "See to it that no one deceives you.

After they had listened to him, they were delighted and promised to give him money. So he began to look for a good opportunity to betray him.

They began to be very sad and asked him, one after the other, "Surely I am not the one, am I?"

He took Peter, James, and John along with him, and he began to feel distressed and troubled.

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.

Again he denied it. After a little while, the people who were standing there began to say to Peter again, "Obviously you're one of them, because you are a Galilean!"

Then he began to invoke a divine curse and to swear with an oath, "I don't know this man you're talking about!"

So the crowd came and began to request that Pilate do for them what he always did.

They began to greet him, "Long live the king of the Jews!"

Suddenly, Zechariah could open his mouth, his tongue was set free, and he began to speak and to praise God.

Just then she came forward and began to thank God and to speak about Jesus to everyone who was waiting for the redemption of Jerusalem.

Jesus himself was about 30 years old when he began his ministry. He was (as legally calculated) the son of Joseph, the son of Heli,

He began to teach in their synagogues and was continuously receiving praise from everyone.

he began to say to them, "Today this Scripture has been fulfilled, as you've heard it read aloud."

All the people began to speak well of him and to wonder at the gracious words that flowed from his mouth. They said, "This is Joseph's son, isn't it?"

Then Jesus went down to Capernaum, a city in Galilee, and began teaching the people on Sabbath days.

He bent over her, rebuked the fever, and it left her. She got up at once and began serving them.

When the sun was setting, everyone who had any friends suffering from various diseases brought them to him. He placed his hands on each of them and began healing them.

So Jesus got into one of the boats (the one that belonged to Simon) and asked him to push out a little from the shore. Then he sat down and began to teach the crowds from the boat.

After the men had done this, they caught so many fish that the nets began to tear.

So they signaled to their partners in the other boat to come and help them. They came and filled both boats until the boats began to sink.

But the news about Jesus spread even more, and many crowds began gathering to hear him and to be healed of their diseases.

The scribes and the Pharisees began to argue among themselves, saying, "Who is this man who is uttering blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God alone?"

Amazement seized all the people, and they began to praise God. They were filled with fear and declared, "We have seen wonderful things today!"

Once, on another Sabbath, Jesus went into a synagogue and began teaching. A man whose right hand was paralyzed was there.

The others were furious and began to discuss with each other what they could do to Jesus.

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

Fear gripped everyone, and they began to praise God. "A great prophet has appeared among us," they said, and "God has helped his people."

When John's messengers had gone, Jesus began to ask the crowds about John. "What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?

and knelt at his feet behind him. She was crying and began to wash his feet with her tears and dry them with her hair. Then she kissed his feet over and over again, anointing them constantly with the perfume.

Those who were at the table with them began to say among themselves, "Who is this man who even forgives sins?"

Then his disciples began to ask him what this parable meant.

He answered, "Legion," because many demons had gone into him. Then the demons began begging Jesus not to order them to go into the bottomless pit.