'Happen' in the Bible

So Jesus replied to him, "Let it happen now, for it is right for us to fulfill all righteousness." Then John yielded to him.

Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they go in and settle there. And so the final condition of that person becomes worse than the first. That's just what will happen to this evil generation!"

Then Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him, “Oh no, Lord! This will never happen to You!”

How terrible it will be for the world due to its temptations to sin! Temptations to sin are bound to happen, but how terrible it will be for that person who causes someone to sin!

Then Peter answering said to him, Behold, we have left all things and have followed thee; what then shall happen to us?

Jesus answered them, "I tell all of you with certainty, if you have faith and do not doubt, not only will you be able to do what has been done to the fig tree, but you will also say to this mountain, "Be removed and thrown into the sea,' and it will happen.

Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye go round the sea and the dry land to make one proselyte, and whenever it may happen -- ye make him a son of gehenna twofold more than yourselves.

I tell all of you with certainty, all these things will happen to those living today."

While He was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples approached Him privately and said, “Tell us, when will these things happen? And what is the sign of Your coming and of the end of the age?”

You will hear of wars and rumors of wars. Make sure that you are not alarmed, for this must happen, but the end is still to come.

But pray that your flight may not happen in winter or on a Sabbath.

because at that time there will be great suffering, the kind that hasn't happened from the beginning of the world until now and certainly won't ever happen again.

I tell all of you with certainty, this generation won't disappear until these things happen.

But they kept saying, "This must not happen during the festival. Otherwise, there'll be a riot among the people."

How, then, would the Scriptures be fulfilled that say it must happen this way?”

And they were in the way going up to Jerusalem; and Jesus went before them: and they were amazed; and as they followed, they were afraid. And he took again the twelve, and began to tell them what things should happen unto him,

Once again, Jesus took the Twelve aside and began to tell them what was going to happen to him. "Pay attention! We're going up to Jerusalem. The Son of Man will be handed over to the high priests and the scribes, and they'll condemn him to death. Then they'll hand him over to the unbelievers,

I assure you: If anyone says to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him.

“Tell us, when will these things happen? And what will be the sign when all these things are about to take place?”

But when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be not disturbed, for this must happen, but the end is not yet.

Pray it won’t happen in winter.

because those days will be a time of suffering, a kind that has not happened from the beginning of God's creation until now, and certainly will never happen again.

Most certainly I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things happen.

Take care, be on the alert, and pray; for you do not know when it will happen.

because they kept saying, "This must not happen during the festival. Otherwise, there'll be a riot among the people."

Behold, you will be silent and not able to speak, until the day that these things will happen, because you didn't believe my words, which will be fulfilled in their proper time."

Mary asked the angel, "How can this happen, since I have not had relations with a man?"

Then Mary said, "Truly I am the Lord's servant. Let everything you have said happen to me." Then the angel left her.

How could this happen to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?

He will come and destroy those farmers and give the vineyard to others." Those who heard him said, "That must never happen!"

And they questioned him, saying, 'Teacher, when, then, shall these things be? and what is the sign when these things may be about to happen?'

and when ye may hear of wars and uprisings, be not terrified, for it behoveth these things to happen first, but the end is not immediately.'

"But before all these things happen they will lay hands on you and persecute you. They will deliver you up to synagogues and to prison, and you will be brought before kings and governors for my sake.

and these things beginning to happen bend yourselves back, and lift up your heads, because your redemption doth draw nigh.'

But stay alert at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that must happen, and to stand before the Son of Man."

When those around Him saw what was going to happen, they asked, “Lord, should we strike with the sword?”

For if they do these things when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?”

all things through him did happen, and without him happened not even one thing that hath happened.

I myself have [actually] seen [that happen], and my testimony is that this is the Son of God!”

Nicodemus answered and said to him, 'How are these things able to happen?'

If I have told you about things that happen on earth and you don’t believe, how will you believe if I tell you about things of heaven?

Then Jesus said to him, “Unless you [people] see [miraculous] signs and wonders, you [simply] will not believe.”

After this, Jesus found him in the temple complex and said to him, “See, you are well. Do not sin anymore, so that something worse doesn’t happen to you.”

That is why I told you that you will die in your sins; for, unless you believe that I am He, that is what will happen."

“I am telling you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe that I am He.

I have told you now before it happens so that when it does happen you may believe.

But when He, the Spirit of Truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth [full and complete truth]. For He will not speak on His own initiative, but He will speak whatever He hears [from the Father—the message regarding the Son], and He will disclose to you what is to come [in the future].

Then Jesus, knowing everything that was about to happen to Him, went out and said to them, “Who is it you’re looking for?”

to do as much as your power and your plan had decided beforehand would happen.

When the Commander of the Temple Guards and the High Priests heard this statement, they were utterly at a loss with regard to it, wondering what would happen next.

“Please pray to the Lord for me,” Simon replied, “so that nothing you have said may happen to me.”

When Peter came to himself, he said, "Now I know for certain that the Lord has sent his angel and rescued me from the hand of Herod and from everything the Jewish people were expecting to happen."

So beware that what is said in the prophets does not happen to you:

And now, compelled by the Spirit, I am on my way to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there,

I've had help from God to this day, and so I stand here to testify to both the powerful and the lowly alike, stating only what the prophets and Moses said would happen

"Therefore, Sirs, take courage; for I believe God, and am convinced that things will happen exactly as I have been told.

They expected that he would swell up or suddenly drop dead. But after they waited a long time and saw nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and said he was a god.

But I have used none of these rights, and I have not written this to make it happen that way for me. For it would be better for me to die than for anyone to deprive me of my boast!

And all these things as types did happen to those persons, and they were written for our admonition, to whom the end of the ages did come,

However, this will happen to each person in the proper order: first the Messiah, then those who belong to the Messiah when he comes.

Now when this perishable puts on the imperishable, and this mortal puts on immortality, then the saying that is written will happen, "Death has been swallowed up in victory."

By faith also Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things that were going to happen.

out of the same mouth doth come forth blessing and cursing; it doth not need, my brethren, these things so to happen;

Yet you do not know [the least thing] about what may happen in your life tomorrow. [What is secure in your life?] You are merely a vapor [like a puff of smoke or a wisp of steam from a cooking pot] that is visible for a little while and then vanishes [into thin air].

But in fact, if you happen to suffer for doing what is right, you are blessed. But do not be terrified of them or be shaken.

For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God. If it begins first with us, what will happen to those who don't obey the Good News of God?

"If it is hard for the righteous person to be saved, what will happen to the ungodly and sinful person?"

and if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and destroyed them by burning them to ashes, making them an example to ungodly people of what is going to happen to them;

But these men sneer at anything which they do not understand; and whatever they do know by [mere] instinct, like unreasoning and irrational beasts—by these things they are destroyed.

This is the revelation of Jesus the Messiah, which God gave him to show his servants the things that must happen soon. He made it known by sending his messenger to his servant John,

Therefore, write down what you have seen, what is, and what is going to happen after this.

After these things, I saw a door standing open in heaven. The first voice that I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, "Come up here, and I will show you what must happen after this."

the light of a lampwill never shine in you again;and the voice of a groom and bridewill never be heard in you again.All this will happenbecause your merchantswere the nobility of the earth,because all the nations were deceivedby your sorcery,

He told me, "These words are trustworthy and true. The Lord God of the spirits and of the prophets has sent his messenger to show his servants the things that must happen soon."