'First' in the Bible

He first found his own brother Simon and told him, "We have found the Messiah!" (which is translated Christ).

and said to him, "Everyone serves the good wine first, and then the cheaper wine when the guests are drunk. You have kept the good wine until now!"

Jesus did this as the first of his miraculous signs, in Cana of Galilee. In this way he revealed his glory, and his disciples believed in him.

"Our law doesn't condemn a man unless it first hears from him and learns what he is doing, does it?"

When they persisted in asking him, he stood up straight and replied, "Whoever among you is guiltless may be the first to throw a stone at her."

(His disciples did not understand these things when they first happened, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him and that these things had happened to him.)

"If the world hates you, be aware that it hated me first.

They brought him first to Annas, for he was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.

So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the two men who had been crucified with Jesus, first the one and then the other.

Now very early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been moved away from the entrance.

The two were running together, but the other disciple ran faster than Peter and reached the tomb first.

Then the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, came in, and he saw and believed.

On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the disciples had gathered together and locked the doors of the place because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders. Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, "Peace be with you."