'First' in the Bible

I have given an earlier account, O Theophilus, of all the things which Jesus did, and of his teaching from the first,

(Now this man, with the reward of his evil-doing, got for himself a field, and falling head first, came to a sudden and violent end there.

And that he may send the Christ who was marked out for you from the first, even Jesus:

To you, first, God sent his servant, blessing you by turning every one of you from his sins.

But Jacob, hearing that there was grain in Egypt, sent out our fathers the first time.

And, while I was talking to them, the Holy Spirit came on them, as on us at first.

And when he had come across him, he took him to Antioch. And they were with the church there for a year, teaching the people; and the disciples were first given the name of Christians in Antioch.

And when they had gone past the first and second watchmen they came to the iron door into the town, which came open by itself: and they went out and down one street; and then the angel went away.

Then Paul and Barnabas without fear said, It was necessary for the word of God to be given to you first; but because you will have nothing to do with it, and have no desire for eternal life, it will now be offered to the Gentiles.

Symeon has given an account of how God was first pleased to take from among the Gentiles a people for himself.

And on the first day of the week, when we had come together for the holy meal, Paul gave them a talk, for it was his purpose to go away on the day after; and he went on talking till after the middle of the night.

And when they had come, he said to them, You yourselves have seen what my life has been like all the time from the day when I first came into Asia,

But I went about, first to those in Damascus and Jerusalem, and through all the country of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, preaching a change of heart, so that they, being turned to God, might give, in their works, the fruits of a changed heart.

That the Christ would go through pain, and being the first to come back from the dead, would give light to the people and to the Gentiles.

But the captain, desiring to keep Paul safe, kept them from their purpose, and gave orders that those who had knowledge of swimming were to go off the ship and get first to land: