'Previously' in the Bible

not to all the people, but to witnesses--men previously chosen by God--namely, to us, who ate and drank with Him after He rose from the dead.

Thence they sailed to Antioch, where they had previously been commended to the grace of God in connexion with the work which they had now completed.

(For they had previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian with him in the city, and imagined that Paul had brought him into the Temple.)