'Engaged' in the Bible

All these were busily engaged with one mind in prayer, together with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus and with his brothers.

But after Paul and Barnabas had engaged them in serious argument and debate, the church arranged for Paul and Barnabas and some others of them to go up to the apostles and elders in Jerusalem concerning this controversy.

When they reached Ephesus he left them there, but he himself entered the synagogue and engaged in discussion with the Jews.

When he had assembled them, as well as the workers engaged in this type of business, he said: “Men, you know that our prosperity is derived from this business.

They found me in the temple presenting these offerings, after I had undergone [the rites of] purification, without any crowd or uproar. But there were some Jews from [the west coast province of] Asia [Minor],

And when, engaged in this, I was journeying to Damascus, with authority and power from the chief priests,