'Around' in the Bible

John wore a garment made of camel's hair with a leather belt around his waist, and he ate locusts and wild honey.

So the news about him spread quickly throughout all the region around Galilee.

After looking around at them in anger, grieved by the hardness of their hearts, he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out, and his hand was restored.

Jerusalem, Idumea, beyond the Jordan River, and around Tyre and Sidon a great multitude came to him when they heard about the things he had done.

A crowd was sitting around him and they said to him, "Look, your mother and your brothers are outside looking for you."

And looking at those who were sitting around him in a circle, he said, "Here are my mother and my brothers!

Again he began to teach by the lake. Such a large crowd gathered around him that he got into a boat on the lake and sat there while the whole crowd was on the shore by the lake.

When he was alone, those around him with the twelve asked him about the parables.

When Jesus had crossed again in a boat to the other side, a large crowd gathered around him, and he was by the sea.

Jesus went with him, and a large crowd followed and pressed around him.

Jesus knew at once that power had gone out from him. He turned around in the crowd and said, "Who touched my clothes?"

But he looked around to see who had done it.

The girl got up at once and began to walk around (she was twelve years old). They were completely astonished at this.

And he was amazed because of their unbelief. Then he went around among the villages and taught.

Then the apostles gathered around Jesus and told him everything they had done and taught.

Now the Pharisees and some of the experts in the law who came from Jerusalem gathered around him.

Suddenly when they looked around, they saw no one with them any more except Jesus.

When they came to the disciples, they saw a large crowd around them and experts in the law arguing with them.

So they brought the boy to him. When the spirit saw him, it immediately threw the boy into a convulsion. He fell on the ground and rolled around, foaming at the mouth.

"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 tied around his neck and to be thrown into the sea.

Then Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, "How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!"

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.

Then he began to speak to them in parables: "A man 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.

In his teaching Jesus also said, "Watch out for the experts in the law. They like walking around in long robes and elaborate greetings in the marketplaces,

Around three o'clock Jesus cried out with a loud voice, "Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?" which means, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"