'Going' in the Bible

On the eighth day they went to circumcise the child. They were going to name him Zechariah after his father,

Soon afterwards, Jesus went to a city called Nain. His disciples and a large crowd were going along with him.

So his disciples went to him, woke him up, and kept telling him, "Master! Master! We're going to die!" He got up and rebuked the wind and the raging waves. They stopped, and there was calm.

"Listen carefully to these words. The Son of Man is going to be betrayed into human hands."

Get going! See, I am sending you out like lambs among wolves.

After careful consideration, Jesus replied, "A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho when he fell into the hands of bandits. They stripped him, beat him, and went away, leaving him half dead.

Then Jesus told the crowds, "When you see a cloud coming in from the west, you immediately say, "There's going to be a storm,' and that's what happens.

When you see a south wind blowing, you say, "It's going to be hot,' and so it is.

Someone asked him, "Lord, are only a few people going to be saved?"

"Or suppose a king is going to war against another king. He will first sit down and consider whether with 10,000 men he can fight the one coming against him with 20,000 men, won't he?

As he was going into a village, ten lepers met him. They stood at a distance

When Jesus saw them, he told them, "Go and show yourselves to the priests." While they were going, they were made clean.

Jesus took the Twelve aside and told them, "Pay attention! We're going up to Jerusalem. Everything written by the prophets about the Son of Man will be fulfilled,

When he heard the crowd going by, he asked what was happening.

So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore tree to see Jesus, who was going to pass that way.

But all the people who saw this began to complain: "Jesus is going to be the guest of a notorious sinner!"

So be alert at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are going to take place and to take your stand in the presence of the Son of Man."

The Son of Man is going away, just as it has been determined, but how terrible it will be for that man by whom he is betrayed!"

Then they began to discuss among themselves which one of them was going to do this.

As they came near the village where the two men were headed, Jesus acted as though he were going farther.

Then he told him, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, you will see heaven standing open and the angels of God going up and coming down to the Son of Man."

The Jewish leaders said, "This sanctuary has been under construction for 46 years, and you're going to rebuild it in three days?"

The wind blows where it wants to. You hear its sound, but you don't know where it comes from or where it is going. That's the way it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit."

so they went to John and told him, "Rabbi, the man who was with you on the other side of the Jordan, the one about whom you testified look, he's baptizing, and everyone is going to him!"

The woman told him, "Sir, you don't have a bucket, and the well is deep. Where are you going to get this living water?

Jesus said this to test him, because he himself knew what he was going to do.

So they were glad to take him on board, and immediately the boat reached the land toward which they were going.

So they asked him, "What sign are you going to do so that we may see it and believe in you? What actions are you performing?

What if you saw the Son of Man going up to the place where he was before?

Now he was speaking about Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, because this man was going to betray him, even though he was one of the Twelve.

since no one acts in secret if he wants to be known publicly. If you're going to do these things, you should reveal yourself to the world!"

Go up to the festival yourselves. I am not going to this festival yet, because my time hasn't fully come yet."

Then Jesus said, "I'll be with you only a little while longer, and then I'm going back to the one who sent me.

Then the Jewish leaders asked one another, "Where does this man intend to go that we won't be able to find him? Surely he's not going to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, is he?

Jesus answered them, "Even though I'm testifying about myself, my testimony is valid because I know where I've come from and where I'm going. But you don't know where I come from or where I'm going.

Later on, he told them again, "I'm going away, and you'll look for me, but you will die in your sin. You cannot come where I'm going."

So the Jewish leaders were asking, "He isn't going to kill himself, is he? Is that why he said, "You cannot come where I'm going'?"

So the Jewish leaders surrounded him and quizzed him, "How long are you going to keep us in suspense? If you're the Messiah, tell us so plainly."

Jesus replied to them, "I've shown you many good actions from my Father. For which of them are you going to stone me?"

The Jewish leaders answered him, "We are not going to stone you for a good action, but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, are making yourself God!"

The disciples told him, "Rabbi, the Jewish leaders were just now trying to stone you to death, and you are going back there again?"

So the high priests and the Pharisees assembled the Council and said, "What are we going to do? This man is performing many signs.

But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples, who was going to betray him, asked,

The crowd was going out to meet Jesus because they had heard that he had performed this sign.

Jesus replied to the crowd, "The light is among you only for a short time. Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness may not overtake you. The person who walks in the darkness is in the darkness and does not know where he is going.

Then he came to Simon Peter, who asked him, "Lord, are you going to wash my feet?"

For he knew who was going to betray him. That's why he said, "Not all of you are clean."

After saying this, Jesus was deeply troubled in spirit and declared solemnly, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, one of you is going to betray me!"

Then he took a piece of bread, dipped it, and gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot. After he had taken the piece of bread, Satan entered him. Then Jesus told him, "Do quickly what you are going to do!"

Little children, I'm with you only a little longer. You will look for me, but what I told the Jewish leaders I now tell you, "Where I'm going, you cannot come.'

Simon Peter asked him, "Lord, where are you going?" Jesus answered him, "I'm going where you cannot follow me now, though you will follow me later on."

There are many rooms in my Father's house. If there weren't, I wouldn't have told you that I am going away to prepare a place for you, would I?

And since I'm going away to prepare a place for you, I'll come back again and welcome you into my presence, so that you may be where I am.

You know where I am going, and you know the way."

Thomas asked him, "Lord, we don't know where you are going, so how can we know the way?"

Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, the one who believes in me will also do what I'm doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I'm going to the Father.

I'm not going to forsake you like orphans. I will come back to you.

Judas (not Iscariot) asked him, "Lord, how is it that you are going to reveal yourself to us and not to the world?"

You have heard me tell you, "I'm going away, but I'm coming back to you.' If you loved me, you would rejoice that I'm going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I am.

"But now I am going to the one who sent me. Yet none of you asks me, "Where are you going?'

However, I'm telling you the truth. It's for your advantage that I'm going away, because if I don't go away, the Helper won't come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.

of righteousness, because I'm going to the Father and you will no longer see me;

At this point, some of his disciples asked each other, "What does he mean by telling us, "In a little while you will no longer see me, then in a little while you will see me again,' and, "because I am going to the Father'?"

I left the Father and came into the world. Now I'm leaving the world and going back to the Father."

Then Jesus, knowing everything that was going to happen, went forward and asked them, "Who are you looking for?"

So Pilate asked him, "Aren't you going to speak to me? You realize, don't you, that I have the authority to release you and the authority to crucify you?"

Simon Peter told them, "I'm going fishing." They all told him, "We'll go with you, too." So they went out and got into the boat but didn't catch a thing that night.

Peter turned around and noticed the disciple whom Jesus kept loving following them. He was the one who had put his head on Jesus' chest at the supper and had asked, "Lord, who is the one who is going to betray you?"

So the rumor spread among the brothers that this disciple wasn't going to die. Yet Jesus didn't say to Peter that he wasn't going to die, but, "If it's my will for him to remain until I come back, how does that concern you?"

While he was going and they were gazing up toward heaven, two men in white robes stood right beside them.

Now a man who had been crippled from birth was being carried in. Every day people would lay him at what was called the Beautiful Gate so that he could beg from those who were going into the Temple.

But Saul kept trying to destroy the church. Going into one house after another, he began dragging off men and women and throwing them in prison.

As they were going along the road, they came to some water. The eunuch said, "Look, there's some water. What keeps me from being baptized?"

since I'm going to show him how much he must suffer for my name's sake."

Now when Peter was going around among all of the disciples, he also visited the saints living in Lydda.

That very night, before Herod was going to bring him out, Peter, bound with two chains, was sleeping between two soldiers, and guards in front of the door were watching the prisoners.

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.

They were sent on their way by the church, and as they were going through Phoenicia and Samaria they told of the conversion of the gentiles and brought great joy to all the brothers.

Once, as we were going to the place of prayer, we met a slave girl who had a spirit of fortune-telling and who had brought her owners a great deal of money by predicting the future.

But Paul told the guards, "The magistrates have had us beaten publicly without a trial and have thrown us into jail, even though we are Roman citizens. Now are they going to throw us out secretly? Certainly not! Have them come and escort us out."

because he has set a day when he is going to judge the world with justice through a man whom he has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising him from the dead."

There we found a ship going across to Phoenicia, so we went aboard and sailed on.

as the high priest and the whole council of elders can testify about me. I also received letters from them to the brothers in Damascus, and I was going there to tie up those who were there and bring them back to Jerusalem to be punished.

He answered, "The Jewish leaders have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down to the Council tomorrow as though they were going to examine his case more carefully.

Festus replied that Paul was being kept in custody at Caesarea and that he himself would be going there soon.

Meanwhile, the sailors had begun trying to escape from the ship. They lowered the lifeboat into the sea and pretended that they were going to lay out the anchors from the bow.

Right up to daybreak Paul kept urging all of them to eat something. He said, "Today is the fourteenth day that you have been waiting and going without food, not eating anything.

For if you live according to human nature, you are going to die, but if by the Spirit you continuously put to death the activities of the body, you will live.

Right now, however, I'm going to Jerusalem to minister to the saints,

If his work is burned up, he will suffer loss. However, he himself will be saved, but it will be like going through fire.

You know that the saints will rule the world, don't you? And if the world is going to be ruled by you, can't you handle insignificant cases?

However, if I did want to boast, I would not be a fool, because I would be telling the truth. But I am not going to do it in order to keep anyone from thinking more of me than what he sees and hears about me.

Therefore, I hope to send him as soon as I see how things are going to turn out for me.

I know how to be humble, and I know how to prosper. In each and every situation I have learned the secret of being full and of going hungry, of having too much and of having too little.

In fact, when we were with you, we told you ahead of time that we were going to suffer persecution. And as you know, that is what happened.

At the same time, they also learn how to be lazy while going from house to house. Not only this, but they even become gossips and keep busy by interfering in other people's lives, saying things they should not say.

In the presence of God and the Messiah Jesus, who is going to judge those who are living and those who are dead, and in view of his appearing and his kingdom, I solemnly appeal to you

even though they had seen my actions for 40 years. That is why I was indignant with that generation and said, "They are always going astray in their hearts, and they have not known my ways.'

By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going.

You must make it your habit to speak and act like people who are going to be judged by the law of liberty.