'First' in the Bible

The first thing Andrew did was to find his brother Simon and say to him, "We have found the Anointed One!" (which is translated "Messiah").

and told him, "Everyone serves the best wine first, and the cheap kind when people are drunk. But you have kept the best wine until now!"

Jesus did this, the first of his signs, in Cana of Galilee. He revealed his glory, and his disciples believed in him.

At certain times an angel of the Lord would go down into the pool and stir up the water, and whoever stepped in first after the stirring of the water was healed of whatever disease he had.

"Surely our Law does not condemn a person without first hearing from him and finding out what he is doing, does it?"

When they persisted in questioning him, he straightened up and told them, "Let the person among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her."

Then he went away again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing at first, and he remained there.

At first, his disciples didn't understand these things. However, when Jesus had been glorified, they remembered that these things had been written about him and that people had done these things to him.

First they brought him to Annas, because he was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, the high priest that year.

So the soldiers went and broke the legs of the first man and then of the other man who had been crucified with him.

Nicodemus, the man who had first come to Jesus at night, also arrived, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes weighing about 100 litra.

On the first day of the week, early in the morning and while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and noticed that the stone had been removed from the tomb.

The two of them were running together, but the other disciple ran faster than Peter and came to the tomb first.

Then the other disciple, who arrived at the tomb first, went inside, looked, and believed.

It was the evening of the first day of the week, and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders. Jesus came and stood among them. He told them, "Peace be with you."