'Opened' in the Bible

After Jesus was baptized, He came up immediately out of the water; and behold, the heavens were opened, and he (John) saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove and lighting on Him (Jesus),

Then He began to teach them, saying,

“Ask and keep on asking and it will be given to you; seek and keep on seeking and you will find; knock and keep on knocking and the door will be opened to you.

For everyone who keeps on asking receives, and he who keeps on seeking finds, and to him who keeps on knocking, it will be opened.

And their eyes were opened. And Jesus sternly warned them: “See that no one knows this!”

They answered Him, “Lord, we want our eyes to be opened.”

The tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints (God’s people) who had fallen asleep [in death] were raised [to life];

and looking up to heaven, He sighed deeply and said to the man, “Ephphatha,” which [in Aramaic] means, “Be opened and released!”

And his ears were opened, his tongue was released, and he began speaking plainly.

At once Zacharias’ mouth was opened and his tongue freed, and he began speaking, praising and blessing and thanking God.

Now when all the people were baptized, Jesus was also baptized, and while He was praying, the [visible] heaven was opened,

The scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to Him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written,

“So I say to you, ask and keep on asking, and it will be given to you; seek and keep on seeking, and you will find; knock and keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you.

For everyone who keeps on asking [persistently], receives; and he who keeps on seeking [persistently], finds; and to him who keeps on knocking [persistently], the door will be opened.

Then their eyes were [suddenly] opened [by God] and they [clearly] recognized Him; and He vanished from their sight.

They said to one another, “Were not our hearts burning within us while He was talking with us on the road and opening the Scriptures to us?”

Then He opened their minds to [help them] understand the Scriptures,

Then He said to him, “I assure you and most solemnly say to you, you will see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man [the bridge between heaven and earth].”

So they said to him, “How were your eyes opened?”

Now it was on a Sabbath day that Jesus made the mud and opened the man’s eyes.

Accordingly they said to the blind man again, “What do you say about Him, since He opened your eyes?” And he said, “[It must be that] He is a prophet!”

but as to how he now sees, we do not know; or who has opened his eyes, we do not know. Ask him [and stop asking us]; he is of age, he will speak for himself and give his own account of it.”

The man replied, “Well, this is astonishing! You do not know where He comes from, and yet He opened my eyes!

Since the beginning of time it has never been heard that anyone opened the eyes of a person born blind.

But some of them said, “Could not this Man, who opened the blind man’s eyes, have kept this man from dying?”

But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors, and leading them out, he said,

“We found the prison securely locked and the guards standing at the doors, but when we opened [the doors], we found no one inside.”

and he said, “Look! I see the heavens opened up [in welcome] and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!”

Then Philip spoke and beginning with this Scripture he preached Jesus to him [explaining that He is the promised Messiah and the source of salvation].

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

But Peter sent them all out [of the room] and knelt down and prayed; then turning to the body he said, “Tabitha, arise!” And she opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter, she sat up.

and he saw the sky opened up, and an object like a great sheet descending, lowered by its four corners to the earth,

Opening his mouth, Peter said:“Most certainly I understand now that God is not one to show partiality [to people as though Gentiles were excluded from God’s blessing],

But [meanwhile] Peter continued knocking; and when they opened the door and saw him, they were completely amazed.

Arriving there, they gathered the church together and began to report [in great detail] everything that God had done with them and how He had opened to the Gentiles a door of faith [in Jesus as the Messiah and Savior].

A woman named Lydia, from the city of Thyatira, a dealer in purple fabrics who was [already] a worshiper of God, listened to us; and the Lord opened her heart to pay attention and to respond to the things said by Paul.

suddenly there was a great earthquake, so [powerful] that the very foundations of the prison were shaken and at once all the doors were opened and everyone’s chains were unfastened.

because a wide door for effective service has opened to me [in Ephesus, a very promising opportunity], and there are many adversaries.

Now when I arrived at Troas to preach the good news of Christ, even though a door [of opportunity] opened for me in the Lord,

And you Philippians know that in the early days of preaching the gospel, after I left Macedonia, no church shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving except you alone;

by this new and living way which He initiated and opened for us through the veil [as in the Holy of Holies], that is, through His flesh,

He opened the bottomless pit, and smoke like the smoke of a great furnace flowed out of the pit; and the sun and the atmosphere were darkened by the smoke from the pit.

But the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the river which the dragon had hurled out of his mouth.

And he opened his mouth to speak blasphemies (abusive speech, slander) against God, to blaspheme His name and His tabernacle, and those who live in heaven.

And I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and He who was riding it is called Faithful and True (trustworthy, loyal, incorruptible, steady), and in righteousness He judges and wages war [on the rebellious nations].

And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the Book of Life; and the dead were judged according to what they had done as written in the books [that is, everything done while on earth].