'Kept' in the Bible

And saith unto him, Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse: but thou hast kept the good wine until now.

John was also baptizing in Aenon, near Salim, because there was plenty of water there. People kept coming and were being baptized,

In the meantime the disciples kept urging Him, “Rabbi, eat something.”

They kept telling the woman, "It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, because now we have heard him ourselves, and we know that he really is the Savior of the world."

So the Jews kept saying to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath, and you are not permitted to pick up your pallet [because it is unlawful].”

So the Jewish leaders began persecuting Jesus, because he kept doing such things on the Sabbath.

But the testimony I receive is not from man [a merely human witness]; but I say these things so that you may be saved [that is, have eternal life].

John was the lamp that kept on burning and shining [to show you the way], and you were willing for a while to rejoice in his light.

And you have not kept his word in your hearts, because you have not faith in him whom he has sent.

A large crowd kept following him because they had seen the signs that he was performing by healing the sick.

When the people saw the sign that he had done, they kept saying, "Truly this is the Prophet who was to come into the world!"

They kept saying, "This is Jesus, the son of Joseph, isn't it, whose father and mother we know? So how can he say, "I have come down from heaven'?"

Having said these things to them, he still kept in Galilee.

The Jewish leaders kept looking for him at the festival, asking, "Where is that man?"

However, many in the crowd believed in him. They kept saying, "When the Messiah comes, he won't do more signs than this man has done, will he?"

Some said, “He’s the one.” “No,” others were saying, “but he looks like him.”He kept saying, “I’m the one!”

Truly I say to you, He who does not go through the door into the place where the sheep are kept, but gets in by some other way, is a thief and an outlaw.

when the Jews gathered round Him and kept asking Him, "How long do you mean to keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us so plainly."

Many people came to him and kept saying, "John never performed a sign, but everything that John said about this man is true!"

Martha, therefore, when she heard that Jesus doth come, met him, and Mary kept sitting in the house.

But some of them said, “Couldn’t He who opened the blind man’s eyes also have kept this man from dying?”

They kept looking for Jesus and saying to one another as they stood in the Temple, "What do you think? Surely he won't come to the festival, will he?"

Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this.

they took palm branches and went out to meet Him. They kept shouting: “Hosanna! He who comes in the name of the Lord is the blessed One—the King of Israel!”

So the people, who were with Him when He called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead, continued to tell others about Him.

The disciples began looking at one another, puzzled and disturbed as to whom He could mean.

One of his disciples, the one whom Jesus kept loving, had been sitting very close to him.

Since Judas kept the money-bag, some thought that Jesus was telling him, “Buy what we need for the festival,” or that he should give something to the poor.

If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.

Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.

“These things I have spoken to you so that you may be kept from stumbling.

They kept saying, "What is this "in a little while' that he keeps talking about? We don't know what he means."

I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.

While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.

(He said this so that his words might come true, I have kept safe all those whom you gave to me.)

But Peter stood at the door without. Then went out that other disciple, which was known unto the high priest, and spake unto her that kept the door, and brought in Peter.

Then saith the damsel that kept the door unto Peter, Art not thou also one of this man's disciples? He saith, I am not.

They kept coming up to him and saying, "Long live the king of the Jews!" Then they began to slap him on the face.

From then on, Pilate tried to release him, but the Jewish leaders kept shouting, "If you release this fellow, you're not a friend of Caesar! Anyone who claims to be a king is defying Caesar!"

When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he kept loving standing there, he told his mother, "Dear lady, here is your son."

So she ran off and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, whom Jesus kept loving. She told them, "They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don't know where they have put him!"

So the other disciples kept telling him, “We have seen the Lord!”But he said to them, “If I don’t see the mark of the nails in His hands, put my finger into the mark of the nails, and put my hand into His side, I will never believe!”

That disciple whom Jesus kept loving told Peter, "It's the Lord!" When Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he put his clothes back on, because he was practically naked, and jumped into the sea.

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?"