'Set' in the Bible

And he spake also this parable unto certain who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and set all others at nought:

And they brought him to Jesus: and they cast their garments upon the colt, and they set Jesus thereon.

And when they had kindled a fire in the midst of the hall, and were set down together, Peter sat down among them.

And Herod with his men of war set him at nought, and mocked him, and arrayed him in a gorgeous robe, and sent him again to Pilate.

But Pilate once more addressed them, wishing to set Jesus free.

The man who was lying in prison charged with riot and murder and for whom they clamoured he set free, but Jesus he gave up to be dealt with as they desired.

But we were hoping that it was He who was going to redeem Israel and set our nation free. Indeed, besides all this, it is the third day since these things happened.

On the next day Jesus wanted to set out for Galilee. He found Philip and said to him, "Follow me."

And there were set there six waterpots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece.

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.

He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true.

he left Judea and set out once more for Galilee.

So the people left the city and were coming to Him.

Jesus told him, "Go home; your son will live." The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and set off for home.

for a messenger at a set time was going down in the pool, and was troubling the water, the first then having gone in after the troubling of the water, became whole of whatever sickness he was held.

Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father. Your accuser is Moses, on whom you have set your hope.

And Jesus took the loaves; and when he had given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to them that were set down; and likewise of the fishes as much as they would.

got into a boat, and started across the sea to Capernaum. Darkness had already set in, but Jesus had not yet come to them.

Don’t work for the food that perishes but for the food that lasts for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal of approval on Him.”

And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst,

You judge according to human standards [just by what you see]. I do not judge anyone.

You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

They replied to him, "We are Abraham's descendants and have never been slaves to anybody. So how can you say, "You will be set free'?"

If therefore the Son shall set you free, ye shall be really free.

If He called them gods, men to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be undone or annulled or broken),

do you say, ‘You are blaspheming’ to the One the Father set apart and sent into the world, because I said: I am the Son of God?

So after he had washed their feet, and had taken his garments, and was set down again, he said unto them, Know ye what I have done to you?

I've set an example for you, so that you may do as I have done to you.

Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and have set you that ye should go and that ye should bear fruit, and that your fruit should abide, that whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name he may give you.

Set them apart in the truth; your word is truth.

And I set myself apart on their behalf, so that they too may be truly set apart.

Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a spunge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to his mouth.

Then Peter and the other disciple set out to go to the tomb.

Simon Peter said to them, "I am going fishing." "We will go too," said they. So they set out and went on board their boat; but they caught nothing that night.

He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or periods that the Father has set by His own authority.

And they set two, Joseph called Barsabas, who was surnamed Justus, and Matthias,

Being therefore a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn to him with an oath, of the fruit of his loins to set upon his throne;

And a man who had been lame from his mother’s womb was being carried along, whom they used to set down every day at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, in order to beg alms of those who were entering the temple.

And when they had set them in the midst, they asked, By what power, or by what name, have ye done this?

This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner.

The kings of the earth set themselves in array, And the rulers were gathered together, Against the Lord, and against his Anointed:

And when they had brought them, they set them before the council: and the high priest asked them,

look out, therefore, brethren, seven men of you who are well testified of, full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom, whom we may set over this necessity,

Whom they set before the apostles: and when they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.

And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law:

And he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on: yet he promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child.

and did deliver him out of all his tribulations, and gave him favour and wisdom before Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he did set him -- governor over Egypt and all his house.

And the next day he shewed himself unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one to another?

and he who is doing injustice to the neighbour, did thrust him away, saying, Who set thee a ruler and a judge over us?

'This Moses, whom they did refuse, saying, Who did set thee a ruler and a judge? this one God a ruler and a redeemer did send, in the hand of a messenger who appeared to him in the bush;

you who received the law as ordained and delivered to you by angels, and yet you did not obey it!”

Peter then invited them in and gave them lodging.The next day he got up and set out with them, and some of the brothers from Joppa went with him.

But Peter began and set forth the matter to them in order, saying,

And upon a set day Herod, arrayed in royal apparel, sat upon his throne, and made an oration unto them.

As they were ministering to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for Me Barnabas and Saul for the work I have called them to.”

Then Saul, (who also is called Paul,) filled with the Holy Ghost, set his eyes on him,

Paul and his companions set sail from Paphos and came to Perga in Pamphylia. John, however, left them and went back to Jerusalem.

For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation unto the ends of the earth.

They therefore, having been set on their way by the assembly, passed through Phoenicia and Samaria, relating the conversion of those of the nations. And they caused great joy to all the brethren.

After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up:

but Paul chose Silas and set out, commended to the grace of the Lord by the brothers and sisters.

After he had seen the vision, we immediately made efforts to set out for Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to evangelize them.

having set sail, therefore, from Troas, we came with a straight course to Samothracia, on the morrow also to Neapolis,

and set forth customs which it is not lawful for us to receive, or to observe, being Romans.

And when he had brought them into his house, he set meat before them, and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house.

But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.

and not having found them, dragged Jason and certain brethren before the politarchs, crying out, These men that have set the world in tumult, are come here also,

Jason has received them into his house; and they all set Caesar's authority at defiance, declaring that there is another Emperor-- one called Jesus."

For you are bringing some startling and strange things to our ears; so we want to know what they mean.”

For as I passed along, and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. What therefore ye worship in ignorance, this I set forth unto you.

From one man he made every nation of the human race to inhabit the entire earth, determining their set times and the fixed limits of the places where they would live,

because He has set a day when He is going to judge the world in righteousness by the Man He has appointed. He has provided proof of this to everyone by raising Him from the dead.”

For I am with thee, and no man shall set on thee to hurt thee: for I have much people in this city.

But when Gallio became Proconsul of Greece, the Jews with one accord made a dead set at Paul, and brought him before the court.

Then the people all set upon Sosthenes, the Warden of the synagogue, and beat him severely in front of the court. Gallio did not concern himself in the least about this.

After remaining a considerable time longer in Corinth, Paul took leave of the brethren and set sail for Syria; and Priscilla and Aquila were with him. He had shaved his head at Cenchreae, because he was bound by a vow.

but he said good-bye and stated, “I’ll come back to you again, if God wills.” Then he set sail from Ephesus.

And after spending some time there, he set out, traveling through one place after another in the Galatian territory and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples.

So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worshippeth.

After the uproar had ended, Paul sent for the disciples, and when he had encouraged them he told them goodbye, and set off to go to Macedonia.

and stayed three months. When he was about to set sail for Syria, a plot was devised against him by the Jews, so a decision was made to go back through Macedonia.

But we, going ahead to the ship, set sail for Assos, intending from there to take Paul on board; for so he had arranged it, intending himself to go by land.

We set sail from there, and on the following day we arrived off Chios. The next day we approached Samos, and the day after that we arrived at Miletus.

And when they came to him, he said to them: “You know, from the first day I set foot in Asia, how I was with you the whole time—

Take heed therefore to yourselves, and to all the flock, wherein the Holy Spirit has set you as overseers, to shepherd the assembly of God, which he has purchased with the blood of his own.

In all things I have set you an example, showing you that, by working as I do, you ought to help the weak, and to bear in mind the words of the Lord Jesus, how He Himself said, "'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'"

After we tore ourselves away from them and set sail, we came by a direct route to Cos, the next day to Rhodes, and from there to Patara.

And finding a ship sailing over unto Phenicia, we went aboard, and set forth.

After looking up the disciples, we stayed there seven days; and they kept telling Paul through the Spirit not to set foot in Jerusalem.

But when we had completed the days, we set out and took our journey, all of them accompanying us, with wives and children, till we were out of the city. And kneeling down upon the shore we prayed.

And when the seven days were nearly completed, the Jews from Asia, having seen him in the temple, set all the crowd in a tumult, and laid hands upon him,

On the morrow, because he would have known the certainty wherefore he was accused of the Jews, he loosed him from his bands, and commanded the chief priests and all their council to appear, and brought Paul down, and set him before them.

And provide them beasts, that they may set Paul on, and bring him safe unto Felix the governor.

Now [when] Festus set foot in the province, after three days he went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea.

Festus therefore answered that Paul should be kept at Caesarea, and that he himself was about to set out shortly.

Then said Agrippa unto Festus, This man might have been set at liberty, if he had not appealed unto Caesar.

and having embarked in a ship of Adramyttium, we, being about to sail by the coasts of Asia, did set sail, there being with us Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica,

And thence, having set sail, we sailed under Cyprus, because of the winds being contrary,

Since the harbor was unsuitable to winter in, the majority decided to set sail from there, hoping somehow to reach Phoenix, a harbor on Crete open to the southwest and northwest, and to winter there.

And there having been long fasting, then Paul having stood in the midst of them, said, 'It behoved you, indeed, O men -- having hearkened to me -- not to set sail from Crete, and to save this hurt and damage;