'Happened' in the Bible

Then it happened that as Jesus was reclining at the table in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and were dining with Jesus and His disciples.

So when his fellow slaves saw what had happened, they were deeply grieved and came and reported to their lord all that had happened.

Now while they were on their way, some of the guard came into the city and reported to the chief priests all that had happened.

Their herdsmen ran away and reported it in the city and in the country. And the people came to see what it was that had happened.

Those who had seen it described to them how it had happened to the demon-possessed man, and all about the swine.

But the woman fearing and trembling, aware of what had happened to her, came and fell down before Him and told Him the whole truth.

Every day I was with you in the temple teaching, and you did not seize Me; but this has taken place to fulfill the Scriptures.”

And how has it happened to me, that the mother of my Lord would come to me?

When the angels had gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds began saying to one another, “Let us go straight to Bethlehem then, and see this thing that has happened which the Lord has made known to us.”

When the herdsmen saw what had happened, they ran away and reported it in the city and out in the country.

The people went out to see what had happened; and they came to Jesus, and found the man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting down at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind; and they became frightened.

Her parents were amazed; but He instructed them to tell no one what had happened.

And just as it happened in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man:

It was the same as happened in the days of Lot: they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building;

Now when the centurion saw what had happened, he began praising God, saying, “Certainly this man was innocent.”

And all the crowds who came together for this spectacle, when they observed what had happened, began to return, beating their breasts.

While they were perplexed about this, behold, two men suddenly stood near them in dazzling clothing;

But Peter got up and ran to the tomb; stooping and looking in, he *saw the linen wrappings only; and he went away to his home, marveling at what had happened.

One of them, named Cleopas, answered and said to Him, “Are You the only one visiting Jerusalem and unaware of the things which have happened here in these days?”

But we were hoping that it was He who was going to redeem Israel. Indeed, besides all this, it is the third day since these things happened.

Judas (not Iscariot) *said to Him, “Lord, what then has happened that You are going to disclose Yourself to us and not to the world?”

and they were taking note of him as being the one who used to sit at the Beautiful Gate of the temple to beg alms, and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.

When they had threatened them further, they let them go (finding no basis on which to punish them) on account of the people, because they were all glorifying God for what had happened;

Now there elapsed an interval of about three hours, and his wife came in, not knowing what had happened.

saying to Aaron, ‘Make for us gods who will go before us; for this Moses who led us out of the land of Egypt—we do not know what happened to him.’

This happened three times, and immediately the object was taken up into the sky.

This happened three times, and everything was drawn back up into the sky.

Then the proconsul believed when he saw what had happened, being amazed at the teaching of the Lord.

It happened that as we were going to the place of prayer, a slave-girl having a spirit of divination met us, who was bringing her masters much profit by fortune-telling.

So he was reasoning in the synagogue with the Jews and the God-fearing Gentiles, and in the market place every day with those who happened to be present.

When he got to the stairs, he was carried by the soldiers because of the violence of the mob;

and the rest should follow, some on planks, and others on various things from the ship. And so it happened that they all were brought safely to land.

After this had happened, the rest of the people on the island who had diseases were coming to him and getting cured.

After three days Paul called together those who were the leading men of the Jews, and when they came together, he began saying to them, “Brethren, though I had done nothing against our people or the customs of our fathers, yet I was delivered as a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.

For I do not want you, brethren, to be uninformed of this mystery—so that you will not be wise in your own estimation—that a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in;

Now these things happened as examples for us, so that we would not crave evil things as they also craved.

Now these things happened to them as an example, and they were written for our instruction, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.

persecutions, and sufferings, such as happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium and at Lystra; what persecutions I endured, and out of them all the Lord rescued me!

It has happened to them according to the true proverb, “A dog returns to its own vomit,” and, “A sow, after washing, returns to wallowing in the mire.”