'Around' in the Bible

Now John wore clothing made from camel's hair with a leather belt around his waist, and his diet consisted of locusts and wild honey.

Then people from Jerusalem, as well as all Judea and all the region around the Jordan, were going out to him,

Do not give what is holy to dogs or throw your pearls before pigs; otherwise they will trample them under their feet and turn around and tear you to pieces.

Now when Jesus saw a large crowd around him, he gave orders to go to the other side of the lake.

And such a large crowd gathered around him that he got into a boat to sit while the whole crowd stood on the shore.

and said, "I tell you the truth, unless you turn around and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven!

"But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a huge millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the open sea.

When it was about nine o'clock in the morning, he went out again and saw others standing around in the marketplace without work.

And about five o'clock that afternoon he went out and found others standing around, and said to them, 'Why are you standing here all day without work?'

"Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a fence around it, dug a pit for its winepress, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and went on a journey.

Then the governor's soldiers took Jesus into the governor's residence and gathered the whole cohort around him.

They stripped him and put a scarlet robe around him,