'Started' in the Bible
Jesus said, "Come on!" So Peter got down out of the boat, started walking on the water, and came to Jesus.
When evening came, after the sun had set, people started bringing to him everyone who was sick or possessed by demons.
The young lady got up at once and started to walk. She was twelve years old. Instantly they were overcome with astonishment.
Many people sternly told him to be quiet, but he started shouting even louder, "Son of David, have mercy on me!"
They thought that he was in their group of travelers. After traveling for a day, they started looking for him among their relatives and friends.
The Pharisees and their scribes started complaining to Jesus' disciples, "Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?"
One day, Jesus and his disciples got into a boat. He told them, "Let's cross to the other side of the lake." So they started out.
Then all the people from the region surrounding the Gerasenes asked Jesus to leave them, because they were terrified. So he got into a boat and started back.
Later, an argument started among the disciples as to which of them might be the greatest.
and say, "This person started a building but couldn't finish it.'
The people at the front of the crowd sternly told him to be quiet, but he started shouting even louder, "Son of David, have mercy on me!"
But they kept insisting, "He is stirring up the people with what he teaches all over Judea, from where he started in Galilee to this place."
The people left the town and started on their way to him.
Jesus told him, "Go home. Your son will live." The man believed what Jesus told him and started back home.
The man immediately became well, and he picked up his mat and started walking. Now that day was a Sabbath.
got into a boat, and started across the sea to Capernaum. Darkness had already fallen, and Jesus had not yet come to them.
After they had given their testimony and spoken the word of the Lord, they started back to Jerusalem, continuing to proclaim the good news in many Samaritan villages.
He immediately started to preach about Jesus in the synagogues, saying, "This is the Son of God."
Now the people who were scattered by the persecution that started because of Stephen went as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except Jews.
But the Jewish leaders stirred up devout women of high social standing and the officials in the city, started a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and drove them out of their territory.
Then some men came down from Judea and started to teach the brothers, "Unless you are circumcised according to the Law of Moses, you can't be saved."
But the Jewish leaders became jealous, and they took some contemptible characters who used to hang out in the public square, formed a mob, and started a riot in the city. They attacked Jason's home and searched it for Paul and Silas in order to bring them out to the people.
But when they found out that he was a Jew, they all started to shout in unison for about two hours, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"
The tribune asked, "Oh, do you speak Greek? You're not the Egyptian who started a revolt some time ago and led 4,000 assassins into the desert, are you?"
The people who lived there were unusually kind to us. It had started to rain and was cold, so they started a bonfire and invited us to join them around it.
So we urged Titus to finish this work of kindness among you in the same way that he had started it.
I am giving you my opinion on this matter because it will be helpful to you. Last year you were not only willing to do something, but had already started to do it.
Are you so foolish? Having started out with the Spirit, are you now ending up with the flesh?