'Began' in the Bible

When the Sabbath came, he began to teach in the synagogue. Many who heard him were astonished, saying, "Where did he get these ideas? And what is this wisdom that has been given to him? What are these miracles that are done through his hands?

Jesus called the twelve and began to send them out two by two. He gave them authority over the unclean spirits.

They ran through that whole region and began to bring the sick on mats to wherever he was rumored to be.

Then he directed the crowd to sit down on the ground. After he took the seven loaves and gave thanks, he broke them and began giving them to the disciples to serve. So they served the crowd.

Then the Pharisees came and began to argue with Jesus, asking for a sign from heaven to test him.

So they began to discuss with one another about having no bread.

Then Jesus began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and experts in the law, and be killed, and after three days rise again.

He spoke openly about this. So Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him.

Peter began to speak to him, "Look, we have left everything to follow you!"

They were on the way, going up to Jerusalem. Jesus was going ahead of them, and they were amazed, but those who followed were afraid. He took the twelve aside again and began to tell them what was going to happen to him.

When he heard that it was Jesus the Nazarene, he began to shout, "Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!"

Then they came to Jerusalem. Jesus entered the temple area and began to drive out those who were selling and buying in the temple courts. He turned over the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those selling doves,

Then he began to teach them and said, "Is it not written: 'My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations'? But you have turned it into a den of robbers!"

Then he began to speak to them in parables: "A man planted a vineyard. He put a fence around it, dug a pit for its winepress, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and went on a journey.

Jesus began to say to them, "Watch out that no one misleads you.

When they heard this, they were delighted and promised to give him money. So Judas began looking for an opportunity to betray him.

Then some began to spit on him, and to blindfold him, and to strike him with their fists, saying, "Prophesy!" The guards also took him and beat him.

When the slave girl saw him, she began again to say to the bystanders, "This man is one of them."

Then he began to curse, and he swore with an oath, "I do not know this man you are talking about!"

Then the chief priests began to accuse him repeatedly.

Then the crowd came up and began to ask Pilate to release a prisoner for them, as was his custom.

They began to salute him: "Hail, king of the Jews!"

Now the people were waiting for Zechariah, and they began to wonder why he was delayed in the holy place.

But she was greatly troubled by his words and began to wonder about the meaning of this greeting.

At that moment, she came up to them and began to give thanks to God and to speak about the child to all who were waiting for the redemption of Jerusalem.

but (because they assumed that he was in their group of travelers) they went a day's journey. Then they began to look for him among their relatives and acquaintances.

So Jesus, when he began his ministry, was about thirty years old. He was the son (as was supposed) of Joseph, the son of Heli,

He began to teach in their synagogues and was praised by all.

Then he began to tell them, "Today this scripture has been fulfilled even as you heard it being read."

So he went down to Capernaum, a town in Galilee, and on the Sabbath he began to teach the people.

They were all amazed and began to say to one another, "What's happening here? For with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out!"

So he stood over her, commanded the fever, and it left her. Immediately she got up and began to serve them.

Then the experts in the law and the Pharisees began to think to themselves, "Who is this man who is uttering blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God alone?"

But they were filled with mindless rage and began debating with one another what they would do to Jesus.

So the dead man sat up and began to speak, and Jesus gave him back to his mother.

Fear seized them all, and they began to glorify God, saying, "A great prophet has appeared among us!" and "God has come to help his people!"

When John's messengers had gone, 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?

As she stood behind him at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears. She wiped them with her hair, kissed them, and anointed them with the perfumed oil.

But those who were at the table with him began to say among themselves, "Who is this, who even forgives sins?"

And they began to beg him not to order them to depart into the abyss.

And they began making fun of him, because they knew that she was dead.

Now the day began to draw to a close, so the twelve came and said to Jesus, "Send the crowd away, so they can go into the surrounding villages and countryside and find lodging and food, because we are in an isolated place."

Then two men, Moses and Elijah, began talking with him.

Now he was casting out a demon that was mute. When the demon had gone out, the man who had been mute began to speak, and the crowds were amazed.

Others, to test him, began asking for a sign from heaven.

As the crowds were increasing, Jesus began to say, "This generation is a wicked generation; it looks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah.

When he went out from there, the experts in the law and the Pharisees began to oppose him bitterly, and to ask him hostile questions about many things,

Meanwhile, when many thousands of the crowd had gathered so that they were trampling on one another, Jesus began to speak first to his disciples, "Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

But one after another they all began to make excuses. The first said to him, 'I have bought a field, and I must go out and see it. Please excuse me.'

They will say, 'This man began to build and was not able to finish!'

Then after he had spent everything, a severe famine took place in that country, and he began to be in need.

because this son of mine was dead, and is alive again -- he was lost and is found!' So they began to celebrate.

Now people were even bringing their babies to him for him to touch. But when the disciples saw it, they began to scold those who brought them.

As he approached the road leading down from the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of his disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works they had seen:

Then Jesus entered the temple courts and began to drive out those who were selling things there,

Then he began to tell the people this parable: "A man planted a vineyard, leased it to tenant farmers, and went on a journey for a long time.

So Judas agreed and began looking for an opportunity to betray Jesus when no crowd was present.

So they began to question one another as to which of them it could possibly be who would do this.

Now the men who were holding Jesus under guard began to mock him and beat him.

They began to accuse him, saying, "We found this man subverting our nation, forbidding us to pay the tribute tax to Caesar and claiming that he himself is Christ, a king."

While they were talking and debating these things, Jesus himself approached and began to accompany them

So they left the town and began coming to him.

So the disciples began to say to one another, "No one brought him anything to eat, did they?"

So when the Samaritans came to him, they began asking him to stay with them. He stayed there two days,

So he asked them the time when his condition began to improve, and they told him, "Yesterday at one o'clock in the afternoon the fever left him."

Now because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began persecuting him.

Now when the people saw the miraculous sign that Jesus performed, they began to say to one another, "This is certainly the Prophet who is to come into the world."

Then the Jews who were hostile to Jesus began complaining about him because he said, "I am the bread that came down from heaven,"

Then the Jews who were hostile to Jesus began to argue with one another, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"

When the feast was half over, Jesus went up to the temple courts and began to teach.

Then some of the residents of Jerusalem began to say, "Isn't this the man they are trying to kill?

When they heard these words, some of the crowd began to say, "This really is the Prophet!"

Early in the morning he came to the temple courts again. All the people came to him, and he sat down and began to teach them.

Now when they heard this, they began to drift away one at a time, starting with the older ones, until Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him.

Then they began asking him, "Who is your father?" Jesus answered, "You do not know either me or my Father. If you knew me you would know my Father too."

So the Jewish leaders began to say, "Perhaps he is going to kill himself, because he says, 'Where I am going you cannot come.'"

Then the neighbors and the people who had seen him previously as a beggar began saying, "Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?"

Then some of the Pharisees began to say, "This man is not from God, because he does not observe the Sabbath." But others said, "How can a man who is a sinner perform such miraculous signs?" Thus there was a division among them.

Many came to him and began to say, "John performed no miraculous sign, but everything John said about this man was true!"

So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him. They began to shout, "Hosanna! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord! Blessed is the king of Israel!"

He poured water into the washbasin and began to wash the disciples' feet and to dry them with the towel he had wrapped around himself.

The disciples began to look at one another, worried and perplexed to know which of them he was talking about.

I wrote the former account, Theophilus, about all that Jesus began to do and teach

So when they had gathered together, they began to ask him, "Lord, is this the time when you are restoring the kingdom to Israel?"

All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit, and they began to speak in other languages as the Spirit enabled them.

and they began selling their property and possessions and distributing the proceeds to everyone, as anyone had need.

He jumped up, stood and began walking around, and he entered the temple courts with them, walking and leaping and praising God.

After making Peter and John stand in their midst, they began to inquire, "By what power or by what name did you do this?"

But when they had ordered them to go outside the council, they began to confer with one another,

When they had prayed, the place where they were assembled together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak the word of God courageously.

When they heard this, they entered the temple courts at daybreak and began teaching. Now when the high priest and those who were with him arrived, they summoned the Sanhedrin -- that is, the whole high council of the Israelites -- and sent to the jail to have the apostles brought before them.

I am the God of your forefathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.' Moses began to tremble and did not dare to look more closely.

At that time they made an idol in the form of a calf, brought a sacrifice to the idol, and began rejoicing in the works of their hands.

When they had driven him out of the city, they began to stone him, and the witnesses laid their cloaks at the feet of a young man named Saul.

And Saul agreed completely with killing. Now on that day a great persecution began against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were forced to scatter throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria.

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

But when they believed Philip as he was proclaiming the good news about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they began to be baptized, both men and women.

and immediately he began to proclaim Jesus in the synagogues, saying, "This man is the Son of God."

But Peter began and explained it to them point by point, saying,

Then as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them just as he did on us at the beginning.