'Night' in the Bible

When he arose, he took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt:

but during the night his enemy comes, and over the first seed he sows darnel among the wheat, and goes away.

When He had done this, He climbed the hill to pray in solitude. Night came on, and he was there alone.

And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them, walking on the sea.

He replied to them, "You say, "Red sky at night, what a delight!

Then He left them, went out of the city to Bethany, and spent the night there.

But be sure of this: if the owner of the house had known when during the night the thief would be coming, he would have stayed awake and not allowed his house to be broken into.

“In the middle of the night there was a shout: ‘Here’s the groom! Come out to meet him.’

Then saith Jesus unto them, All ye shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad.

Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, That this night, before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice.

While he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent him a message, saying, “Have nothing to do with that righteous Man; for last night I suffered greatly in a dream because of Him.”

Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error shall be worse than the first.

Saying, Say ye, His disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept.

And very early, it being yet night, having risen, he went forth, and went away to a desert place, and was there praying;

And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.

And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones.

And he saw them toiling in rowing; for the wind was contrary unto them: and about the fourth watch of the night he cometh unto them, walking upon the sea, and would have passed by them.

So you are to keep watch: because you are not certain when the master of the house is coming, in the evening, or in the middle of the night, or at the cock's cry, or in the morning;

And Jesus saith unto them, All ye shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered.

And Jesus saith unto him, Verily I say unto thee, That this day, even in this night, before the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me thrice.

And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.

And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.

And Simon answering said unto him, Master, we have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing: nevertheless at thy word I will let down the net.

And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.

And he said to them, Which of you, having a friend, would go to him in the middle of the night and say to him, Friend, let me have three cakes of bread;

But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?

If he comes in the middle of the night, or even near dawn, and finds them alert, those slaves are blessed.

I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.

And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?

And in the day time he was teaching in the temple; and at night he went out, and abode in the mount that is called the mount of Olives.

And the Lord, turning, gave Peter a look. And the words of the Lord came to Peter's mind, how he had said, This night, before the hour of the cock's cry, you will be false to me three times.

The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.

Nicodemus saith unto them, (he that came to Jesus by night, being one of them,)

I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.

But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him.

He then having received the sop went immediately out: and it was night.

And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight.

Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing. They say unto him, We also go with thee. They went forth, and entered into a ship immediately; and that night they caught nothing.

But the angel of the Lord by night opened the prison doors, and brought them forth, and said,

But their laying await was known of Saul. And they watched the gates day and night to kill him.

Then the disciples took him by night, and let him down by the wall in a basket.

So Peter invited them in and gave them lodging [for the night].The next day Peter got up and left with them, and some of the brothers from Joppa went with him.

And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the keepers before the door kept the prison.

And a vision appeared to Paul in the night; There stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us.

But about the middle of the night, Paul and Silas were making prayers and songs to God in the hearing of the prisoners;

And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, straightway.

And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews.

Then spake the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision, Be not afraid, but speak, and hold not thy peace:

And on the first day of the week, when we had come together for the holy meal, Paul gave them a talk, for it was his purpose to go away on the day after; and he went on talking till after the middle of the night.

Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.

And the night following the Lord stood by him, and said, Be of good cheer, Paul: for as thou hast testified of me in Jerusalem, so must thou bear witness also at Rome.

And he called unto him two centurions, saying, Make ready two hundred soldiers to go to Caesarea, and horsemen threescore and ten, and spearmen two hundred, at the third hour of the night;

Then the soldiers, as it was commanded them, took Paul, and brought him by night to Antipatris.

Unto which promise our twelve tribes, instantly serving God day and night, hope to come. For which hope's sake, king Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews.

For there stood by me this night the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve,

But when the fourteenth night was come, as we were driven up and down in Adria, about midnight the shipmen deemed that they drew near to some country;

When they had set a day for Paul, they came to his lodging in large numbers. And he carefully explained [Christianity] to them from morning until evening, solemnly testifying about the kingdom of God and trying to persuade them concerning Jesus, both from the Law of Moses and from the [writings of the] Prophets.

The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.

For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread:

Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;

in toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, through hunger, thirst, many periods of fasting, coldness, and nakedness.

For our fight is not against flesh and blood, but against authorities and powers, against the world-rulers of this dark night, against the spirits of evil in the heavens.

For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.

Night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face, and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith?

For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.

Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.

For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.

Neither did we eat any man's bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you:

Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day.

I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day;

For if God did not have pity for the angels who did evil, but sent them down into hell, to be kept in chains of eternal night till they were judged;

These are fountains without water, and mists before a driving storm; for whom the eternal night is kept in store.

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

Again, I give you a new law, which is true in him and in you; for the night is near its end and the true light is even now shining out.

And the angels who did not keep to their kingdom but went out from the place which was theirs, he has put in eternal chains and in dark night till the great day of the judging.

Violent waves of the sea, streaming with their shame, wandering stars for whom the darkest night is kept in store for ever.

And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.

Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them.

And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise.

And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.

And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.

And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.

And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there.

And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever.