'Time' in the Bible

So he said to the worker who tended the vineyard, 'For three years now, I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and each time I inspect it I find none. Cut it down! Why should it continue to deplete the soil?'

At that time, some Pharisees came up and said to Jesus, "Get away from here, because Herod wants to kill you."

At the time for the banquet he sent his slave to tell those who had been invited, 'Come, because everything is now ready.'

They will demolish you -- you and your children within your walls -- and they will not leave within you one stone on top of another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God."

Then he began to tell the people this parable: "A man planted a vineyard, leased it to tenant farmers, and went on a journey for a long time.

He said, "Watch out that you are not misled. For many will come in my name, saying, 'I am he,' and, 'The time is near.' Do not follow them!

This will be a time for you to serve as witnesses.

Therefore be resolved not to rehearse ahead of time how to make your defense.

When he learned that he was from Herod's jurisdiction, he sent him over to Herod, who also happened to be in Jerusalem at that time.

A third time he said to them, "Why? What wrong has he done? I have found him guilty of no crime deserving death. I will therefore flog him and release him."

Jesus replied, "Woman, why are you saying this to me? My time has not yet come."

Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter his mother's womb and be born a second time, can he?"

After this, Jesus and his disciples came into Judean territory, and there he spent time with them and was baptizing.

Jesus said to her, "Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.

But a time is coming -- and now is here -- when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such people to be his worshipers.

So he asked them the time when his condition began to improve, and they told him, "Yesterday at one o'clock in the afternoon the fever left him."

Then the father realized that it was the very time Jesus had said to him, "Your son will live," and he himself believed along with his entire household.

When Jesus saw him lying there and when he realized that the man had been disabled a long time already, he said to him, "Do you want to become well?"

I tell you the solemn truth, a time is coming -- and is now here -- when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.

"Do not be amazed at this, because a time is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice

He was a lamp that was burning and shining, and you wanted to rejoice greatly for a short time in his light.

And the Father who sent me has himself testified about me. You people have never heard his voice nor seen his form at any time,

So they said to him, "Sir, give us this bread all the time!"

So Jesus replied, "My time has not yet arrived, but you are ready at any opportunity!

You go up to the feast yourselves. I am not going up to this feast because my time has not yet fully arrived."

So then they tried to seize Jesus, but no one laid a hand on him, because his time had not yet come.

Now when they heard this, they began to drift away one at a time, starting with the older ones, until Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him.

(Jesus spoke these words near the offering box while he was teaching in the temple courts. No one seized him because his time had not yet come.)

Then they summoned the man who used to be blind a second time and said to him, "Promise before God to tell the truth. We know that this man is a sinner."

Jesus went back across the Jordan River again to the place where John had been baptizing at an earlier time, and he stayed there.

Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sister of the deceased, replied, "Lord, by this time the body will have a bad smell, because he has been buried four days."

Jesus replied, "The time has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.

Just before the Passover feast, Jesus knew that his time had come to depart from this world to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he now loved them to the very end.

You will know at that time that I am in my Father and you are in me and I am in you.

They will put you out of the synagogue, yet a time is coming when the one who kills you will think he is offering service to God.

But I have told you these things so that when their time comes, you will remember that I told you about them. "I did not tell you these things from the beginning because I was with you.

When a woman gives birth, she has distress because her time has come, but when her child is born, she no longer remembers the suffering because of her joy that a human being has been born into the world.

At that time you will ask me nothing. I tell you the solemn truth, whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you.

"I have told you these things in obscure figures of speech; a time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in obscure figures, but will tell you plainly about the Father.

At that time you will ask in my name, and I do not say that I will ask the Father on your behalf.

Look, a time is coming -- and has come -- when you will be scattered, each one to his own home, and I will be left alone. Yet I am not alone, because my Father is with me.

When Jesus had finished saying these things, he looked upward to heaven and said, "Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, so that your Son may glorify you --

He then said to his disciple, "Look, here is your mother!" From that very time the disciple took her into his own home.

After this Jesus, realizing that by this time everything was completed, said (in order to fulfill the scripture), "I am thirsty!"

This was now the third time Jesus was revealed to the disciples after he was raised from the dead.

Jesus said a second time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" He replied, "Yes, Lord, you know I love you." Jesus told him, "Shepherd my sheep."

Jesus said a third time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" Peter was distressed that Jesus asked him a third time, "Do you love me?" and said, "Lord, you know everything. You know that I love you." Jesus replied, "Feed my sheep.

So when they had gathered together, they began to ask him, "Lord, is this the time when you are restoring the kingdom to Israel?"

Thus one of the men who have accompanied us during all the time the Lord Jesus associated with us,

Now Peter and John were going up to the temple at the time for prayer, at three o'clock in the afternoon.

This one heaven must receive until the time all things are restored, which God declared from times long ago through his holy prophets.

But a Pharisee whose name was Gamaliel, a teacher of the law who was respected by all the people, stood up in the council and ordered the men to be put outside for a short time.

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

So when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our ancestors there the first time.

"But as the time drew near for God to fulfill the promise he had declared to Abraham, the people increased greatly in number in Egypt,

At that time Moses was born, and he was beautiful to God. For three months he was brought up in his father's house,

At that time they made an idol in the form of a calf, brought a sacrifice to the idol, and began rejoicing in the works of their hands.

Our ancestors received possession of it and brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations that God drove out before our ancestors, until the time of David.

And they paid close attention to him because he had amazed them for a long time with his magic.

At that time she became sick and died. When they had washed her body, they placed it in an upstairs room.

The voice spoke to him again, a second time, "What God has made clean, you must not consider ritually unclean!"

But the voice replied a second time from heaven, 'What God has made clean, you must not consider ritually unclean!'

At that time some prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch.

About that time King Herod laid hands on some from the church to harm them.

Now look, the hand of the Lord is against you, and you will be blind, unable to see the sun for a time!" Immediately mistiness and darkness came over him, and he went around seeking people to lead him by the hand.

All this took about four hundred fifty years. After this he gave them judges until the time of Samuel the prophet.

So they stayed there for a considerable time, speaking out courageously for the Lord, who testified to the message of his grace, granting miraculous signs and wonders to be performed through their hands.

So they spent considerable time with the disciples.

After there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them, "Brothers, you know that some time ago God chose me to preach to the Gentiles so they would hear the message of the gospel and believe.

After they had spent some time there, they were sent off in peace by the brothers to those who had sent them.

(All the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there used to spend their time in nothing else than telling or listening to something new.)

After he spent some time there, Paul left and went through the region of Galatia and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples.

At that time a great disturbance took place concerning the Way.

A young man named Eutychus, who was sitting in the window, was sinking into a deep sleep while Paul continued to speak for a long time. Fast asleep, he fell down from the third story and was picked up dead.

Then Paul went back upstairs, and after he had broken bread and eaten, he talked with them a long time, until dawn. Then he left.

For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus so as not to spend time in the province of Asia, for he was hurrying to arrive in Jerusalem, if possible, by the day of Pentecost.

When they arrived, he said to them, "You yourselves know how I lived the whole time I was with you, from the first day I set foot in the province of Asia,

When our time was over, we left and went on our way. All of them, with their wives and children, accompanied us outside of the city. After kneeling down on the beach and praying,

Then you're not that Egyptian who started a rebellion and led the four thousand men of the 'Assassins' into the wilderness some time ago?"

When Paul had been summoned, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying, "We have experienced a lengthy time of peace through your rule, and reforms are being made in this nation through your foresight.

At the same time he was also hoping that Paul would give him money, and for this reason he sent for Paul as often as possible and talked with him.

They know, because they have known me from time past, if they are willing to testify, that according to the strictest party of our religion, I lived as a Pharisee.

Agrippa said to Paul, "In such a short time are you persuading me to become a Christian?"

Paul replied, "I pray to God that whether in a short or a long time not only you but also all those who are listening to me today could become such as I am, except for these chains."

Since considerable time had passed and the voyage was now dangerous because the fast was already over, Paul advised them,

So they slipped the anchors and left them in the sea, at the same time loosening the linkage that bound the steering oars together. Then they hoisted the foresail to the wind and steered toward the beach.

But they were expecting that he was going to swell up or suddenly drop dead. So after they had waited a long time and had seen nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and said he was a god.

This was also to demonstrate his righteousness in the present time, so that he would be just and the justifier of the one who lives because of Jesus' faithfulness.

How then was it credited to him? Was he circumcised at the time, or not? No, he was not circumcised but uncircumcised!

For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

So in the same way at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace.

And do this because we know the time, that it is already the hour for us to awake from sleep, for our salvation is now nearer than when we became believers.

So then, do not judge anything before the time. Wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and reveal the motives of hearts. Then each will receive recognition from God.

Do not deprive each other, except by mutual agreement for a specified time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then resume your relationship, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

And I say this, brothers and sisters: The time is short. So then those who have wives should be as those who have none,

For when it is time to eat, everyone proceeds with his own supper. One is hungry and another becomes drunk.

In the same way, he also took the cup after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, every time you drink it, in remembrance of me."

For every time you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.

Then he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers and sisters at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep.

Last of all, as though to one born at the wrong time, he appeared to me also.