'Around' in the Bible

Then Jerusalem was going out to him, and all Judea and all the district around the Jordan;

And he went around through all of Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.

"Never give what is holy to dogs or throw your pearls before pigs. Otherwise, they will trample them with their feet and then turn around and attack you."

When Jesus saw large crowds around Him, He gave the order to go to the other side of the sea.

But Jesus turning and seeing her said, “Take courage, daughter; your [personal trust and confident] faith [in Me] has made you well.” And at once the woman was [completely] healed.

And Jesus was going around all the towns and the villages, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and every sickness.

Such large crowds gathered around Him that He got into a boat and sat down, while the whole crowd stood on the shore.

Around three in the morning, He came toward them walking on the sea.

And when the men of that place recognised him, they sent to that whole country around, and they brought to him all that were ill,

But he turned around [and] said to Peter, "Get behind me, Satan! You are a cause for stumbling to me, because you are not intent on the things of God, but the things of people!"

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 whoever causes the downfall of one of these little ones who believe in Me—it would be better for him if a heavy millstone were hung around his neck and he were drowned in the depths of the 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.

Then about five he went and found others standing around, and said to them, ‘Why have you been standing here all day doing nothing?’

“Listen to another parable: There was a man, a landowner, who planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a watchtower. He leased it to tenant farmers and went away.

"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees--hypocrites!--because you travel around the sea and the dry [land] to make one convert, and when he becomes [one], you make him twice as much a son of hell [as] you [are]!

naked, and ye put around me; I was infirm, and ye looked after me; in prison I was, and ye came unto me.

and when did we see thee a stranger, and we received? or naked, and we put around?

a stranger I was, and ye did not receive me; naked, and ye put not around me; infirm, and in prison, and ye did not look after me.

Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into headquarters and gathered the whole company around Him.

and having unclothed him, they put around him a crimson cloak,

After the Sabbaths, around dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to take a look at the burial site.

John wore a camel-hair garment with a leather belt around his waist and ate locusts and wild honey.

And his fame went out straightway into the whole region of Galilee around.

So many people gathered together that there was no longer room [for them], not even near the door; and Jesus was discussing with them the word [of God].

After looking around at them with anger and sorrow at the hardness of their hearts, He told the man, “Stretch out your hand.” So he stretched it out, and his hand was restored.

Jerusalem, Idumea, beyond the Jordan, and around Tyre and Sidon. The large crowd came to Him because they heard about everything He was doing.

Then his mother and his brothers arrived. Milling around outside, they sent for him, continuously summoning him.

A crowd was sitting around Him and told Him, “Look, Your mother, Your brothers, and Your sisters are outside asking for You.”

And looking about at those who were sitting in a circle around Him, He said, “Here are My mother and My brothers!

Again He began to teach by the sea, and a very large crowd gathered around Him. So He got into a boat on the sea and sat down, while the whole crowd was on the shore facing the sea.

When He was alone with the Twelve, those who were around Him asked Him about the parables.

so that "they may see clearly but not perceive, and they may hear clearly but not understand, otherwise they might turn around and be forgiven.'"

When Jesus had crossed over again by boat to the other side, a large crowd gathered around Him while He was by the sea.

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

At once Jesus realized in Himself that power had gone out from Him. He turned around in the crowd and said, “Who touched My robes?”

His disciples said to Him, “You see the crowd pressing in around You [from all sides], and You ask, ‘Who touched Me?’”

So He was looking around to see who had done this.

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 at their unbelief.Now He was going around the villages in a circuit, teaching.

The apostles gathered around Jesus and reported to Him all that they had done and taught.

send them away that they may go into the country and villages around, and buy themselves bread, for they have not anything they can eat.

He saw them being battered as they rowed, because the wind was against them. Around three in the morning He came toward them walking on the sea and wanted to pass by them.

they ran through that whole country around, and began to carry about those that were ill on couches, where they heard that he was.

The Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around Him.

The man looked up and said, "I see people, but they look like trees walking around."

Then Jesus and his disciples set out for the villages around Caesarea Philippi. On the way he was asking his disciples, "Who do people say I am?"

But turning around and looking at His disciples, He rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind Me, Satan, because you’re not thinking about God’s concerns, but man’s!”

Then suddenly, looking around, they no longer saw anyone with them except Jesus alone.

When they came to the disciples, they saw a large crowd around them and scribes disputing with them.

So they brought him to Him. When the spirit saw Him, it immediately convulsed the boy. He fell to the ground and rolled around, foaming at the mouth.

“But whoever causes the downfall of one of these little ones who believe in Me—it would be better for him if a heavy millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea.

Then Jesus left that place and went into the territory of Judea on the other side of the Jordan. Crowds gathered around him as usual, and he began to teach them again as was his custom.

Jesus looked around and said to His disciples, “How hard it is for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God!”

Looking at them, Jesus said, “With people [as far as it depends on them] it is impossible, but not with God; for all things are possible with God.”

And He went into Jerusalem and into the temple complex. After looking around at everything, since it was already late, He went out to Bethany with the Twelve.

Then He began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug out a pit for a winepress, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and went away.

He also said in His teaching, “Beware of the scribes, who want to go around in long robes, and who want greetings in the marketplaces,

Now a certain young man, having a linen cloth wrapped around his naked body, was following Him. They caught hold of him,

Some of them began to spit on him. They blindfolded him and kept hitting him with their fists and telling him, "Prophesy!" Even the servants took him and slapped him around.

The servant girl saw him and again told those who were standing around, "This man is one of them!"

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?"

Fear came on all those who lived around them, and all these things were being talked about throughout the hill country of Judea.

Then an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified.

And he came into all the district around the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins;

Now it happened that while the crowd was pressing around Him and listening to the word of God, He was standing by the lake of Gennesaret;

After looking around at them all, He told him, “Stretch out your hand.” He did so, and his hand was restored.

And [when] Jesus heard these [things], he marveled at him, and turning around to the crowd that was following him, he said, "I tell you, not even in Israel have I found such great faith!"

And the account of this went forth in all Judea about him, and in all the region around.

because he had an only daughter, about twelve years old, and she was dying. As Jesus was on his way, the crowds pressed around him.

But the day began to decline, and the twelve came and said to him, Send away the crowd that they may go into the villages around, and into the fields, and lodge and find victuals, for here we are in a desert place.

But he turned around [and] rebuked them,

Stay in that same house, eating and drinking what they give you, for the worker deserves his pay. Do not move around from house to house.

Now as the crowds continued to throng around Jesus, he went on to say, "This people living today are an evil generation. It craves a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah,

How blessed are those servants whom the master finds watching for him when he comes! I tell all of you with certainty, he himself will put on an apron, make them sit down at the table, and go around and serve them.

“But he replied to him, ‘Sir, leave it this year also, until I dig around it and fertilize it.

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones [to death] those [messengers] who are sent to her [by God]! How often I have wanted to gather your children together [around Me], just as a hen gathers her young under her wings, but you were not willing!

Now large crowds were going along with him, and he turned around [and] said to them,

So he got up and went to his father. But while the son was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion. He ran, threw his arms around his neck, and kissed him.

It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea than for him to cause one of these little ones to stumble.

because the days will come when your enemies will build walls around you, surround you, and close you in on every side.

“Beware of the scribes, who want to go around in long robes and who love greetings in the marketplaces, the front seats in the synagogues, and the places of honor at banquets.

When those around Him saw what was going to happen, they asked, “Lord, should we strike with the sword?”

And the Lord turned around [and] looked intently at Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he said to him, "Before the rooster crows today, you will deny me three times."

and Herod with his soldiers having set him at nought, and having mocked, having put around him gorgeous apparel, did send him back to Pilate,

But when Jesus turned around and saw them following, he asked them, "What are you looking for?" They asked him, "Rabbi," (which is translated "Teacher"), "where are you staying?"

He made a whip of cords, and drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen; and He scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables;

and Jesus was walking around in the Temple inside the open porch of Solomon.

The Jews then gathered around Him, and were saying to Him, “How long will You keep us in suspense? If You are the Christ, tell us plainly.”

Jesus replied, "Are there not twelve hours in a day? If anyone walks around in the daytime, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

But if anyone walks around at night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him."

Many of the Jews had joined the women around Martha and Mary, to console them concerning their brother.

but I knew that thou always hearest me; but on account of the crowd who stand around I have said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me.

The man who had died came forth, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and his face was wrapped around with a cloth. Jesus *said to them, “Unbind him, and let him go.”

Thus Jesus no longer went around publicly among the Judeans, but went away from there to the region near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim, and stayed there with his disciples.

So He got up from supper, laid aside His robe, took a towel, and tied it around Himself.

Next, He poured water into a basin and began to wash His disciples’ feet and to dry them with the towel tied around Him.

Meanwhile, the servants and officers were standing around a charcoal fire they had built and were warming themselves because it was cold. Peter was also standing with them, keeping himself warm.

The soldiers also twisted together a crown of thorns, put it on His head, and threw a purple robe around Him.

a vessel, therefore, was placed full of vinegar, and they having filled a sponge with vinegar, and having put it around a hyssop stalk, did put it to his mouth;