'Began' in the Bible

The first account I composed, Theophilus, about all that Jesus began to do and teach,

And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit was giving them utterance.

and they began selling their property and possessions and were sharing them with all, as anyone might have need.

When he saw Peter and John about to go into the temple, he began asking to receive alms.

And he began to give them his attention, expecting to receive something from them.

With a leap he stood upright and began to walk; and he entered the temple with them, walking and leaping and praising God.

When they had placed them in the center, they began to inquire, “By what power, or in what name, have you done this?”

Now as they observed the confidence of Peter and John and understood that they were uneducated and untrained men, they were amazed, and began to recognize them as having been with Jesus.

But when they had ordered them to leave the Council, they began to confer with one another,

And when they had prayed, the place where they had gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak the word of God with boldness.

Upon hearing this, they entered into the temple about daybreak and began to teach.Now when the high priest and his associates came, they called the Council together, even all the Senate of the sons of Israel, and sent orders to the prison house for them to be brought.

When Moses saw it, he marveled at the sight; and as he approached to look more closely, there came the voice of the Lord:

Now when they heard this, they were cut to the quick, and they began gnashing their teeth at him.

When they had driven him out of the city, they began stoning him; and the witnesses laid aside their robes at the feet of a young man named Saul.

But Saul began ravaging the church, entering house after house, and dragging off men and women, he would put them in prison.

Philip went down to the city of Samaria and began proclaiming Christ to them.

Then they began laying their hands on them, and they were receiving the Holy Spirit.

and immediately he began to proclaim Jesus in the synagogues, saying, “He is the Son of God.”

But Peter began speaking and proceeded to explain to them in orderly sequence, saying,

And as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them just as He did upon us at the beginning.

But there were some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who came to Antioch and began speaking to the Greeks also, preaching the Lord Jesus.

Then when he arrived and witnessed the grace of God, he rejoiced and began to encourage them all with resolute heart to remain true to the Lord;

One of them named Agabus stood up and began to indicate by the Spirit that there would certainly be a great famine all over the world. And this took place in the reign of Claudius.

On an appointed day Herod, having put on his royal apparel, took his seat on the rostrum and began delivering an address to them.

When they reached Salamis, they began to proclaim the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews; and they also had John as their helper.

But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and began contradicting the things spoken by Paul, and were blaspheming.

When the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord; and as many as had been appointed to eternal life believed.

said with a loud voice, “Stand upright on your feet.” And he leaped up and began to walk.

And they began calling Barnabas, Zeus, and Paul, Hermes, because he was the chief speaker.

When they had arrived and gathered the church together, they began to report all things that God had done with them and how He had opened a door of faith to the Gentiles.

Some men came down from Judea and began teaching the brethren, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.”

And on the Sabbath day we went outside the gate to a riverside, where we were supposing that there would be a place of prayer; and we sat down and began speaking to the women who had assembled.

When they did not find them, they began dragging Jason and some brethren before the city authorities, shouting, “These men who have upset the world have come here also;

Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some began to sneer, but others said, “We shall hear you again concerning this.”

But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul began devoting himself completely to the word, solemnly testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.

And they all took hold of Sosthenes, the leader of the synagogue, and began beating him in front of the judgment seat. But Gallio was not concerned about any of these things.

and he began to speak out boldly in the synagogue. But when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside and explained to him the way of God more accurately.

And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they began speaking with tongues and prophesying.

And many of those who practiced magic brought their books together and began burning them in the sight of everyone; and they counted up the price of them and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.

When they heard this and were filled with rage, they began crying out, saying, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”

On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul began talking to them, intending to leave the next day, and he prolonged his message until midnight.

And they began to weep aloud and embraced Paul, and repeatedly kissed him,

When we had heard this, we as well as the local residents began begging him not to go up to Jerusalem.

After he had greeted them, he began to relate one by one the things which God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry.

And when they heard it they began glorifying God; and they said to him, “You see, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed, and they are all zealous for the Law;

When the seven days were almost over, the Jews from Asia, upon seeing him in the temple, began to stir up all the crowd and laid hands on him,

Then the commander came up and took hold of him, and ordered him to be bound with two chains; and he began asking who he was and what he had done.

But perceiving that one group were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, Paul began crying out in the Council, “Brethren, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees; I am on trial for the hope and resurrection of the dead!”

And there occurred a great uproar; and some of the scribes of the Pharisaic party stood up and began to argue heatedly, saying, “We find nothing wrong with this man; suppose a spirit or an angel has spoken to him?”

The commander took him by the hand and stepping aside, began to inquire of him privately, “What is it that you have to report to me?”

After Paul had been summoned, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying to the governor,“Since we have through you attained much peace, and since by your providence reforms are being carried out for this nation,

When the accusers stood up, they began bringing charges against him not of such crimes as I was expecting,

and when they had gone aside, they began talking to one another, saying, “This man is not doing anything worthy of death or imprisonment.”

When considerable time had passed and the voyage was now dangerous, since even the fast was already over, Paul began to admonish them,

When a moderate south wind came up, supposing that they had attained their purpose, they weighed anchor and began sailing along Crete, close inshore.

The next day as we were being violently storm-tossed, they began to jettison the cargo;

But when the fourteenth night came, as we were being driven about in the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors began to surmise that they were approaching some land.

Having said this, he took bread and gave thanks to God in the presence of all, and he broke it and began to eat.

When they had eaten enough, they began to lighten the ship by throwing out the wheat into the sea.

But striking a reef where two seas met, they ran the vessel aground; and the prow stuck fast and remained immovable, but the stern began to be broken up by the force of the waves.

When the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they began saying to one another, “Undoubtedly this man is a murderer, and though he has been saved from the sea, justice has not allowed him to live.”

But they were expecting that he was about to swell up or suddenly fall down dead. But after they had waited a long time and had seen nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and began to say that he was a god.

After three days Paul called together those who were the leading men of the Jews, and when they came together, he began saying to them, “Brethren, though I had done nothing against our people or the customs of our fathers, yet I was delivered as a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.

And when they did not agree with one another, they began leaving after Paul had spoken one parting word, “The Holy Spirit rightly spoke through Isaiah the prophet to your fathers,