'Found' in the Bible

The circumstances of the birth of Jesus Christ were these. After his mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph, before they were united in marriage, she was found to be with child through the Holy Spirit.

He then directed them to go to Bethlehem, adding, "Go and make careful inquiry about the child, and when you have found him, bring me word, that I too may come and do him homage."

"Every one who hears these my teachings and acts upon them will be found to resemble a wise man who builds his house upon rock;

And every one who hears these my teachings and does not act upon them will be found to resemble a fool who builds his house upon sand.

Jesus listened to this reply, and was astonished, and said to the people following Him, "I solemnly tell you that in no Israelite have I found faith as great as this.

After this Jesus went to the house of Peter, whose mother-in-law he found ill in bed with fever.

But what did you go out to see? A man luxuriously dressed? Those who wear luxurious clothes are to be found in kings' palaces.

When the disciples arrived at the other side of the Lake, they found that they had forgotten to bring any bread;

And going out about five o'clock he found others loitering, and he asked them, "'Why have you been standing here all day long, doing nothing?'

and seeing a fig-tree on the road-side He went up to it, but found nothing on it but leaves. "On you," He said, "no fruit shall ever again grow." And immediately the fig-tree withered away.

"Then will the Kingdom of the Heavens be found to be like ten bridesmaids who took their torches and went out to meet the bridegroom.

Then He came to the disciples and found them asleep, and He said to Peter, "Alas, none of you could keep awake with me for even a single hour!

He came and again found them asleep, for they were very tired.

When they found Him they said, "Every one is looking for you."

for Herod stood in awe of John, knowing him to be an upright and holy man, and he protected him. After listening to him he was in great perplexity, and yet he found a pleasure in listening.

At length Herodias found her opportunity. Herod on his birthday gave a banquet to the nobles of his court and to the tribunes and the principal people in Galilee,

"How many loaves have you?" He inquired; "go and see." So they found out, and said, "Five; and a couple of fish."

So she went home, and found the child lying on the bed, and the demon gone.

About that time there was again an immense crowd, and they found themselves with nothing to eat. So He called His disciples to Him.

So they went and found a young ass tied up at the front door of a house. They were untying it,

But in the distance He saw a fig-tree in full leaf, and went to see whether perhaps He could find some figs on it. When however He came to it, He found nothing but leaves (for it was not fig time)

"David himself calls Him 'Lord:' how then can He be his son?" And the mass of people found pleasure in listening to Jesus.

So the disciples went out and came to the city, and found everything just as He had told them; and they got the Passover ready.

Then He came and found them asleep, and He said to Peter, "Simon, are you asleep? Had you not strength to keep awake a single hour?

When He returned He again found them asleep, for they were very tired; and they knew not how to answer Him.

But the angel said, "Do not be frightened, Mary, for you have found favour with God.

So they made haste and came and found Mary and Joseph, with the babe lying in the manger.

On the third day they found Him in the Temple sitting among the Rabbis, both listening to them and asking them questions,

And there was handed to Him the book of the Prophet Isaiah, and, opening the book, He found the place where it was written,

Jesus listened to the Captain's message and was astonished at him, and He turned and said to the crowd that followed Him, "I tell you that not even in Israel have I found faith like that."

And the friends who had been sent, on returning to the house, found the servant in perfect health.

But what did you go out to see? A man wearing luxurious clothes? People who are gorgeously dressed and live in luxury are found in palaces.

whereupon the people came out to see what had happened. They came to Jesus, and they found the man from whom the demons had gone out sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind; and they were terrified.

After this voice had spoken, Jesus was found alone. They kept it to themselves, and said not a word to any one at that time about what they had seen.

And when he has found it, he lifts it on his shoulder, glad at heart.

Then coming home he calls his friends and neighbours together, and says, 'Congratulate me, for I have found my sheep--the one I had lost.'

And when she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbours, and says, "'Congratulate me, for I have found the coin which I had lost.'

for my son here was dead and has come to life again: he was lost and has been found.' "And they began to be merry.

We are bound to make merry and rejoice, for this brother of yours was dead and has come back to life, he was lost and has been found.'"

Have none been found to come back and give glory to God except this foreigner?"

So those who were sent went and found things as He had told them.

So they went and found all as He had told them; and they got the Passover ready.

When He rose from his prayer and came to His disciples, He found them sleeping for sorrow.

"We have found this man," they said, "an agitator among our nation, forbidding the payment of tribute to Caesar, and claiming to be himself an anointed king."

But they found the stone rolled back from the tomb,

and on entering they found that the body of the Lord Jesus was not there.

Thereupon some of our party went to the tomb and found things just as the women had said; but Jesus Himself they did not see."

So they rose and without an hour's delay returned to Jerusalem, and found the Eleven and the rest met together, who said to them,

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

The next day, having decided to leave Bethany and go into Galilee, Jesus found Philip, and invited him to follow Him.

Then Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, "We have found him about whom Moses in the Law wrote, as well as the Prophets--Jesus, the son of Joseph, a man of Nazareth."

And He found in the Temple the dealers in cattle and sheep and in pigeons, and the money-changers sitting there.

Afterwards Jesus found him in the Temple and said to him, "You are now restored to health. Do not sin any more, or a worse thing may befall you."

Next morning the crowd who were still standing about on the other side of the Lake found that there had been but one small boat there, and they had seen that Jesus did not go on board with His disciples, but that His disciples went away without Him.

So when they had crossed the Lake and had found Him, they asked Him, "Rabbi, when did you come here?"

and was teaching them when the Scribes and the Pharisees brought to Him a woman who had been found committing adultery. They made her stand in the centre of the court, and they put the case to Him.

"Rabbi," they said, "this woman has been found in the very act of committing adultery.

Jesus heard that they had done this. So having found him, He asked him, "Do you believe in the Son of God?"

On His arrival Jesus found that Lazarus had already been three days in the tomb.

And in no other is the great salvation to be found; for, in fact, there is no second name under Heaven that has been given among men through which we are to be saved."

Instantly she fell down dead at his feet, and the young men came in and found her dead. So they carried her out and buried her by her husband's side.

saying, "The jail we found quite safely locked, and the warders were on guard at the doors, but upon going in we found no one there."

The next day, also, he came and found two of them fighting, and he endeavoured to make peace between them. "'Sirs,' he said, 'you are brothers. Why are you wronging one another?'

but Philip found himself at Ashdod. Then visiting town after town he everywhere made known the Good News until he reached Caesarea.

went to the High Priest and begged from him letters addressed to the synagogues in Damascus, in order that if he found any believers there, either men or women, he might bring them in chains to Jerusalem.

There he found a man of the name of Aeneas, who for eight years had kept his bed, through being paralysed.

While Peter was greatly perplexed as to the meaning of the vision which he had seen, just then the men sent by Cornelius, having by inquiry found out Simon's house,

So Peter went in and conversed with him, and found a large company assembled.

and, when Peter returned to Jerusalem, the champions of circumcision found fault with him.

After removing him, He raised up David to be their king, to whom He also bore witness when He said, "'I have found David the son of Jesse, a man I love, who will obey all My commands.'

Without having found Him guilty of any capital offence they urged Pilate to have Him put to death;

He also came to Derbe and to Lystra. At Lystra he found a disciple, Timothy by name--the son of a Christian Jewess, though he had a Greek father.

For as I passed along and observed the things you worship, I found also an altar bearing the inscription, 'TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.' "The Being, therefore, whom you, without knowing Him, revere, Him I now proclaim to you.

Here he found a Jew, a native of Pontus, of the name of Aquila. He and his wife Priscilla had recently come from Italy because of Claudius's edict expelling all the Jews from Rome. So Paul paid them a visit;

During the stay of Apollos in Corinth, Paul, after passing through the inland districts, came to Ephesus, where he found a few disciples.

and not a few of those who had practised magical arts brought their books together and burnt them in the presence of all. The total value was reckoned and found to be 50,000 silver coins.

Having searched for the disciples and found them, we stayed at Tyre for seven days; and, taught by the Spirit, they repeatedly urged Paul not to proceed to Jerusalem.

For we have found this man Paul a source of mischief and a disturber of the peace among all the Jews throughout the Empire, and a ringleader in the heresy of the Nazarenes.

While I was busy about these, they found me in the Temple purified, with no crowd around me and no uproar; but there were certain Jews from the province of Asia.

Or let these men themselves say what misdemeanour they found me guilty of when I stood before the Sanhedrin,

There Julius found an Alexandrian ship bound for Italy, and put us on board of her.

So they hove the lead and found twenty fathoms of water; and after a short time they hove again and found fifteen fathoms.

Here we found brethren, who invited us to remain with them for a week; and so we reached Rome.

They, after they had sharply questioned me, were willing to set me at liberty, because they found no offence in me for which I deserve to die.

gaining acquittal from guilt by His free unpurchased grace through the deliverance which is found in Christ Jesus.

But God's free gift immeasurably outweighs the transgression. For if through the transgression of the one individual the mass of mankind have died, infinitely greater is the generosity with which God's grace, and the gift given in His grace which found expression in the one man Jesus Christ, have been bestowed on the mass of mankind.

No, indeed; the solution is found in His words to Moses, "Wherever I show mercy it shall be nothing but mercy, and wherever I show compassion it shall be simply compassion."

And Isaiah, with strange boldness, exclaims, "I have been found by those who were not looking for Me, I have revealed Myself to those who were not inquiring of Me."

And as for myself, brethren, I found it impossible to speak to you as spiritual men. It had to be as to worldlings--mere babes in Christ.

If, so far as I am concerned, I partake with a grateful heart, why am I to be found fault with in regard to a thing for which I give thanks?"

if indeed having really put on a robe we shall not be found to be unclothed.

And you also we, as God's fellow workers, entreat not to be found to have received His grace to no purpose.

Where can harmony between Christ and Belial be found? Or what participation has a believer with an unbeliever?

Therefore, my dearly-loved friends, as I have always found you obedient, labour earnestly with fear and trembling--not merely as though I were present with you, but much more now since I am absent from you--labour earnestly, I say, to make sure of your own salvation.

Nay, I even reckon all things as pure loss because of the priceless privilege of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. And for His sake I have suffered the loss of everything, and reckon it all as mere refuse, in order that I may win Christ and be found in union with Him,

For, as you are well aware, we have never used the language of flattery nor have we found pretexts for enriching ourselves--God is our witness;

And may God Himself who gives peace, make you entirely holy; and may your spirits, souls and bodies be preserved complete and be found blameless at the Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

And they must also be well-tried men, and when found to be of unblemished character then let them serve as deacons.

Nay, when he was here in Rome, he took great pains to inquire where I was living, and at last he found me.

For I have found great joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of God's people have been, and are, refreshed through you, my brother.