'First' in the Bible

In my first book, Theophilus, I wrote about everything Jesus did and taught from the beginning,

When God raised up his servant, he sent him first to you to bless you by turning every one of you from your evil ways."

But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our ancestors on their first trip.

"When I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them just as he was first given to us.

When he found him, he brought him to Antioch, and for a whole year they were guests of the church and taught many people. It was in Antioch that the disciples were first called Christians.

They passed the first guard, then the second, and came to the iron gate that led into the city. It opened by itself for them, and they went outside and proceeded one block when the angel suddenly left him.

Then Paul and Barnabas boldly declared, "We had to speak God's word to you first, but since you reject it and consider yourselves unworthy of eternal life, we are now going to turn to the gentiles.

Simeon has explained how God first showed his concern for the gentiles by taking from among them a people for his name.

On the first day of the week, when we had met to break bread, Paul began to address the people. Since he intended to leave the next day, he went on speaking until midnight.

When they came to him, he told them, "You know how I lived among you the entire time from the first day I set foot in Asia.

Instead, I first told the people in Damascus and Jerusalem, then all the people in Judea and after that the gentiles to repent, turn to God, and perform deeds that are consistent with such repentance.

that the Messiah would suffer and be the first to rise from the dead and would bring light both to our people and to the gentiles."

but the centurion wanted to save Paul, so he prevented them from carrying out their plan. He ordered those who could swim to jump overboard first and get to land.