'First' in the Bible

He first found his own brother Simon, and said to him, "We have found the Messiah!" --that is to say, the Anointed One.

and said to him, "It is usual to put on the good wine first, and when people have drunk freely, then that which is inferior. But you have kept the good wine till now."

This, the first of His miracles, Jesus performed at Cana in Galilee, and thus displayed His glorious power; and His disciples believed in Him.

"Does our Law," he asked, "judge a man without first hearing what he has to say and ascertaining what his conduct is?"

When however they persisted with their question, He raised His head and said to them, "Let the sinless man among you be the first to throw a stone at her."

Then He went away again to the other side of the Jordan, to the place where John had been baptizing at first; and there He stayed.

If the world hates you, remember that it has first had me as the fixed object of its hatred.

And you also are witnesses, because you have been with me from the first.

But I have spoken these things to you in order that when the time for their accomplishment comes you may remember them, and may recollect that I told you. I did not, however, tell you all this at first, because I was still with you.

They then brought Him to Annas first; for Annas was the father-in-law of Caiaphas who was High Priest that year.

Accordingly the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first man and also of the other who had been crucified with Jesus.

Nicodemus too--he who at first had visited Jesus by night--came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, in weight about seventy or eighty pounds.

On the first day of the week, very early, while it was still dark, Mary of Magdala came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from it.

Then the other disciple, who had been the first to come to the tomb, also went in and saw and was convinced.

On that same first day of the week, when it was evening and, for fear of the Jews, the doors of the house where the disciples were, were locked, Jesus came and stood in their midst, and said to them, "Peace be to you!"