17 occurrences

'Nothing' in the Bible

And seeing the man who had been healed standing with them, they had nothing to say in reply.

Verse Conceptsevangelism, kinds ofSilenceLiving WitnessesSeeing People

For some time ago Theudas rose up, claiming to be somebody, and a group of about four hundred men joined up with him. But he was killed, and all who followed him were dispersed and came to nothing.

Verse ConceptsClaimsFour To Five HundredFour And Five HundredGreat IndividualsPeople Following PeopleScattering FollowersKilling Named Individualsmovement

until there arose another king over Egypt who knew nothing about Joseph.

Verse ConceptsNot Knowing People

But Simon answered and said, “Pray to the Lord for me yourselves, so that nothing of what you have said may come upon me.”

Verse ConceptsPray For UsPraying For SinnersUnfulfilled Word

Saul got up from the ground, and though his eyes were open, he could see nothing; and leading him by the hand, they brought him into Damascus.

Verse ConceptsdisabilitiesEyes HarmedBlindnessdamascus

But I said, ‘By no means, Lord, for nothing unholy or unclean has ever entered my mouth.’

Verse ConceptsMouthsFar Be It!Forbidden FoodLack Of Holiness

(Now all the Athenians and the strangers visiting there used to spend their time in nothing other than telling or hearing something new.)

Verse ConceptsForeignersAmusementsIntelligenceLeisure, And PastimesPride, Examples OfSloth Examples OfCuriosity

So, since these are undeniable facts, you ought to keep calm and to do nothing rash.

Verse ConceptsQuietnessRashnessSure KnowledgeDo Not Be Rashimpulsiveness

take them and purify yourself along with them, and pay their expenses so that they may shave their heads; and all will know that there is nothing to the things which they have been told about you, but that you yourself also walk orderly, keeping the Law.

Verse ConceptsShavingPurifying OneselfPaying For GoodsKeep The Commandments!

And there occurred a great uproar; and some of the scribes of the Pharisaic party stood up and began to argue heatedly, saying, “We find nothing wrong with this man; suppose a spirit or an angel has spoken to him?”

Verse ConceptsTeachers Of The LawSpirit BeingsSound

They came to the chief priests and the elders and said, “We have bound ourselves under a solemn oath to taste nothing until we have killed Paul.

Verse Conceptselders, as community leadersChief priestsTasteAttempting To Kill Specific PeopleVowing To FastPeople Bound By Oaths

But I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death; and since he himself appealed to the Emperor, I decided to send him.

Verse ConceptsempiresDeserving Death

Yet I have nothing definite about him to write to my lord. Therefore I have brought him before you all and especially before you, King Agrippa, so that after the investigation has taken place, I may have something to write.

Verse ConceptsInvestigatingNot Writing

Until the day was about to dawn, Paul was encouraging them all to take some food, saying, “Today is the fourteenth day that you have been constantly watching and going without eating, having taken nothing.

Verse ConceptsDawnFasting, Reasons ForFasting, Nature OfTen Or More Days

But they were expecting that he was about to swell up or suddenly fall down dead. But after they had waited a long time and had seen nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and began to say that he was a god.

Verse ConceptsFalse GodsWaitingPossibility Of DeathPeople Changing Their MindsSwellingMen As Gods

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.

Verse ConceptsCustomAncestorsPrisonersPlea Of InnocenceSalvation For Israel

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