'Already' in the Bible
But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to desire her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
But if I cast out demons by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God has already overtaken you.
When evening arrived, his disciples came to him saying, "This is an isolated place and the hour is already late. Send the crowds away so that they can go into the villages and buy food for themselves."
Meanwhile the boat, already far from land, was taking a beating from the waves because the wind was against it.
Then Jesus called the disciples and said, "I have compassion on the crowd, because they have already been here with me three days and they have nothing to eat. I don't want to send them away hungry since they may faint on the way."
And I tell you that Elijah has already come. Yet they did not recognize him, but did to him whatever they wanted. In the same way, the Son of Man will suffer at their hands."
When it was already late, his disciples came to him and said, "This is an isolated place and it is already very late.
"I have compassion on the crowd, because they have already been here with me three days, and they have nothing to eat.
Then Jesus entered Jerusalem and went to the temple. And after looking around at everything, he went out to Bethany with the twelve since it was already late.
Now when evening had already come, since it was the day of preparation (that is, the day before the Sabbath),
Pilate was surprised that he was already dead. He called the centurion and asked him if he had been dead for some time.
"But woe to you who are rich, for you have received your comfort already.
Then he will reply from inside, 'Do not bother me. The door is already shut, and my children and I are in bed. I cannot get up and give you anything.'
But if I cast out demons by the finger of God, then the kingdom of God has already overtaken you.
"I have come to bring fire on the earth -- and how I wish it were already kindled!
The one who believes in him is not condemned. The one who does not believe has been condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.
Don't you say, 'There are four more months and then comes the harvest?' I tell you, look up and see that the fields are already white for harvest!
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?"
got into a boat, and started to cross the lake to Capernaum. (It had already become dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them.)
But there are some of you who do not believe." (For Jesus had already known from the beginning who those were who did not believe, and who it was who would betray him.)
(His parents said these things because they were afraid of the Jewish religious leaders. For the Jewish leaders had already agreed that anyone who confessed Jesus to be the Christ would be put out of the synagogue.
He answered, "I told you already and you didn't listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You people don't want to become his disciples too, do you?"
When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had been in the tomb four days already.
The evening meal was in progress, and the devil had already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, that he should betray Jesus.
You are clean already because of the word that I have spoken to you.
But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs.
When it was already very early morning, Jesus stood on the beach, but the disciples did not know that it was Jesus.
So they seized them and put them in jail until the next day (for it was already evening).
not by all the people, but by us, the witnesses God had already chosen, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.
Then he said, 'The God of our ancestors has already chosen you to know his will, to see the Righteous One, and to hear a command from his mouth,
Since considerable time had passed and the voyage was now dangerous because the fast was already over, Paul advised them,
I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that I often intended to come to you (and was prevented until now), so that I may have some fruit even among you, just as I already have among the rest of the Gentiles.
What then? Are we better off? Certainly not, for we have already charged that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin,
(as it is written, "I have made you the father of many nations"). He is our father in the presence of God whom he believed -- the God who makes the dead alive and summons the things that do not yet exist as though they already do.
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.
Already you are satisfied! Already you are rich! You have become kings without us! I wish you had become kings so that we could reign with you!
For even though I am absent physically, I am present in spirit. And I have already judged the one who did this, just as though I were present.
The fact that you have lawsuits among yourselves demonstrates that you have already been defeated. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated?
so that we may preach the gospel in the regions that lie beyond you, and not boast of work already done in another person's area.
Not that I have already attained this -- that is, I have not already been perfected -- but I strive to lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus also laid hold of me.
Nevertheless, let us live up to the standard that we have already attained.
not to be easily shaken from your composure or disturbed by any kind of spirit or message or letter allegedly from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord is already here.
For the hidden power of lawlessness is already at work. However, the one who holds him back will do so until he is taken out of the way,
For some have already wandered away to follow Satan.
They have strayed from the truth by saying that the resurrection has already occurred, and they are undermining some people's faith.
For I am already being poured out as an offering, and the time for me to depart is at hand.
Now if he were on earth, he would not be a priest, since there are already priests who offer the gifts prescribed by the law.
Dear friends, this is already the second letter I have written you, in which I am trying to stir up your pure mind by way of reminder:
Dear friends, I am not writing a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that you have already heard.
On the other hand, I am writing a new commandment to you which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining.
but every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God, and this is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming, and now is already in the world.