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'Back' in the Bible

Having been warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, they left for their own country by a different road.

Verse ConceptsGod, Revelation OfVisions And Dreams In ScriptureWarning IndividualsDifferent ThingsNot going home directlyepiphany

Now when Jesus heard that John had been arrested, he went back to Galilee.

Verse ConceptsMonotonyPrisonersTelling Of Happeningsjail

I tell you with certainty, you will not get out of there until you pay back the last dollar!"

Verse ConceptsGoing OutsideEvil And FreedomSettling Accounts

Then it says, "I will go back to my home that I left.' When it arrives, it finds it empty, swept clean, and put in order.

Verse ConceptsPutting In OrderEmpty PeopleMetaphorical HousesSoliloquySweepingIndividuals going homespaceorderDemonic Influence

and anyone who's in the field must not turn back to get his coat.

Verse ConceptsCloaksOuter GarmentsNot going home directly

Then you should've invested my money with the bankers. When I returned, I would've received my money back with interest.'

Verse ConceptsCreditTalentsDepositsInterestMoney, Stewardship OfMoney, Uses OfPossessingBanksGifts And Talentsinvestinglent

When he went back to the disciples, he found them asleep. He told Peter, "So, you men couldn't stay awake with me for one hour, could you?

Verse ConceptsHourPainPrayerlessnessSleep, PhysicalUnreliabilityOverconfidenceOne HourChrist With His DisciplesStress And Hard Times

Then he came back and found them asleep, because they could not keep their eyes open.

Verse ConceptsEvil Eyes

Then he came back to the disciples and told them, "You might as well keep on sleeping and resting. Look! The time is near for the Son of Man to be betrayed into the hands of sinners.

Verse ConceptsFatigueHourHanding Over ChristChrist With His DisciplesNear The Time PersonallyTimes Of The ChristTo Be Given Into One's Hands

Jesus told him, "Put your sword back in its place! Everyone who uses a sword will be killed by a sword.

Verse ConceptsAggressionResistanceRetributionSelf DefenceUnreliabilityJudgement On Murderers

Then Judas, who had betrayed him, regretted what had happened when he saw that Jesus was condemned. He brought the 30 pieces of silver back to the high priests and elders,

Verse ConceptsBeing AshamedUnhappinessDelay, Examples OfSocial SelfishnessJudas Betraying ChristCondemning JesusThe Chief Priests Condemning ChristPrice Set On IndividualsRegretting

When they had finished making fun of him, they stripped him of the robe, put his own clothes back on him, and led him away to crucify him.

Verse ConceptsIndignities Suffered By ChristClothing OthersPeople Stripping PeopleMocking Christ

Jesus left that place and went back to his hometown, and his disciples followed him.

Verse ConceptsDisciples' Movements

Immediately the girl hurried back to the king with her request, "I want you to give me right now the head of John the Baptist on a platter."

Verse ConceptseagernessSuddenlyRemoving HeadsSkullsHasty ActionPots For Cooking And Eating

Back in the house, the disciples asked him about this again.

Verse ConceptsTeachablenessQuestioning ChristThe Disciples Words

If anyone asks you, "Why are you doing this?,' say, "The Lord needs it,' and he will send it back here at once."

Verse ConceptsLendingGod's NeedsWhy Do Others Do This?

But the farmers grabbed the servant, beat him, and sent him back empty-handed.

Verse ConceptsEmpty Handed

and the one who's in the field must not turn back to get his coat.

Verse ConceptsCloaksOuter Garments

When he went back, he found his disciples asleep. "Simon, are you asleep?" he asked Peter. "You couldn't stay awake for one hour, could you?

Verse ConceptsHourPrayerlessnessSleep, PhysicalUnreliabilityOne Hour

Again he came back and found them asleep, because they could not keep their eyes open. They didn't even know what they should say to him.

Verse ConceptsEvil EyesOthers Not AnsweringThose Who Were Ignorant

He came back a third time. "Are you still sleeping and resting?" he asked. "Enough of that! The time has come. Look! The Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of sinners.

Verse ConceptsGod, Purpose OfHourHanding Over ChristActing Three TimesTimes Of The ChristMore Than Enough

When they had finished making fun of him, they stripped him of the purple robe, put his own clothes back on him, and led him away to crucify him.

Verse ConceptsPredestination, Spiritual EventsClothing OthersPeople Stripping PeoplePurple ClothesMocking ChristFun

They went back and told the others, who didn't believe them, either.

Verse ConceptsDoubting The ResurrectionTelling Of Jesus

He will bring many of Israel's descendants back to the Lord their God.

Verse ConceptsCausing People To TurnRestoring SinnersSalvation For Israelluckgabriel

Now Mary stayed with Elizabeth about three months and then went back home.

Verse ConceptsTwo To Four MonthsIndividuals going home

When the angels had left them and gone back to heaven, the shepherds told one another, "Let's go to Bethlehem and see what has taken place that the Lord has told us about."

Verse ConceptseagernessLeavingLooking And SeeingTelling Of Jesus

Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. While the eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fixed on him,

Verse ConceptsCongregationSealing The MessageSitting To TeachWatching ChristBooks Of Prophecy

If someone strikes you on the cheek, offer him the other one as well, and if someone takes your coat, don't keep back your shirt, either.

Verse ConceptsCloaksCheeksSelf DefenceDressSmitten CheeksSmiting Of The RighteousPeople Giving ClothesOuter GarmentsInner GarmentsAccepting BeatingsRobbing PeopleTurning The Other Cheek

Keep on giving to everyone who asks you for something, and if anyone takes what is yours, do not insist on getting it back.

Verse ConceptsBeggarsInterestRobbing PeopleGivingPropertyGiving Without Expecting ReturnGiving Back

If you lend to those from whom you expect to get something back, what thanks do you deserve? Even sinners lend to sinners to get back what they lend.

Verse ConceptsHope, Nature OfGiving Without Expecting ReturnGiving Backexpectationslent

The man who had been dead sat up and began to speak, and Jesus gave him back to his mother.

Verse ConceptsPowers Of SpeechDeath Of A Motherluck

When they couldn't pay it back, he generously canceled the debts for both of them. Now which of them will love him more?"

Verse ConceptsPeople Forgiving OthersUnable To Do Other ThingsDebtLove And Forgiveness

Then all the people from the region surrounding the Gerasenes asked Jesus to leave them, because they were terrified. So he got into a boat and started back.

Verse ConceptsCowardicedefeatFear, Of UnknownBoatsFear Of Christ

When Jesus came back, the crowd welcomed him, because everyone was expecting him.

Verse ConceptsCrowds SeekingWelcoming ChristPeople Waitingwelcome

by others that Elijah had appeared, and by still others that one of the ancient prophets had come back to life.

Verse ConceptsJesus The Prophet

The apostles came back and told Jesus everything they had done. Then he took them away with him privately to a city called Bethsaida.

Verse ConceptsApostles, During Jesus Earthly MinistryRetirementTelling What People DidThe Apostles In Actionfeedback

They answered, "Some say John the Baptist, others Elijah, and still others one of the ancient prophets who has come back to life."

Verse ConceptsJesus The ProphetWho He Might Be

Even while the boy was coming, the demon knocked him to the ground and threw him into convulsions. But Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, healed the boy, and gave him back to his father.

Verse ConceptsRebukeSpiritsSatan, Work OfConvulsionsThose Jesus HealedSigns Of Possible Demon Possession

If a peaceful person lives there, your greeting of peace will remain with him. But if that's not the case, your greeting will come back to you.

Verse ConceptsReversion Of ThingsMen Of Peace

The next day, he took out two denarii and gave them to the innkeeper, saying, "Take good care of him. If you spend more than that, I'll repay you when I come back.'

Verse ConceptsDenariusSecurityAlmsgivingAltruismCharityPaying For Goods

"Whenever an unclean spirit goes out of a person, it wanders through dry places looking for a place to rest but doesn't find any. So it says, "I will go back to my home that I left.'

Verse ConceptsEvil SpiritsRestlessnessDry PlacesComing Out Of PeopleRestCasting Out Demons

When it gets back home, it finds it swept clean and put in order.

Verse ConceptsPutting In OrderSweepingMoving To A New Placeorder

But if that servant says to himself, "My master is taking a long time to come back,' and begins to beat the other servants and to eat, drink, and get drunk,

Verse ConceptsGluttonydrinking, abstention fromSoliloquyEating And Drinkingdrunkards

I tell you, you will never get out of there until you pay back the last penny!"

Verse ConceptsSettling Accounts

"So the servant went back and reported all this to his master. Then the master of the house became angry and told his servant, "Go quickly into the streets and alleys of the town and bring back the poor, the crippled, the blind, and the lame.'

Verse ConceptsAnger, HumanPoverty, Remedies ForStreetsHasteUsing RoadsTelling What People DidAngry People

Because my son was dead and has come back to life. He was lost and has been found.' And they began to celebrate.

Verse ConceptsSpiritually DeadFinding PeopleLost PeopleRejoicing In ReliefMissing SomeoneCelebrationBeing Lost

"Now the father's older son was in the field. As he was coming back to the house, he heard music and dancing.

Verse ConceptsdanceBanquets, ActivitiesMealsSocial FellowshipMusic To Celebrate

The servant told him, "Your brother has come home, and your father has killed the fattened calf because he got him back safely.'

Verse ConceptsFat AnimalsKilling Domesticated AnimalsEating Cattle

But this son of yours spent your money on prostitutes, and when he came back, you killed the fattened calf for him!'

Verse ConceptsBitterness, Examples OfProstitutionWantonnessFat AnimalsKilling Domesticated AnimalsEating Cattle

But we had to celebrate and rejoice, because this brother of yours was dead and has come back to life. He was lost and has been found.'"

Verse ConceptsAlive, Description OfBeing Dead In SinSpiritually DeadLost People

But one of them, when he saw that he had been healed, came back and praised God with a loud voice.

Verse ConceptsPraying LoudlyShoutingVoicesSpecific Praising Of GodHealing SicknessThank YouGiving ThanksThanksluck

"The person who is on the housetop that day must not come down to get his belongings out of his house. The person in the field, too, must not turn back to what's left behind.

Verse ConceptsRoofRooftopMan Going DownPeople not returning

"After he was appointed king, the prince came back. He ordered the servants to whom he had given the money to be called so he could find out what they had earned by investing.

Verse ConceptsGiving, Of TalentsOthers Summoninginvesting

At the right time he sent a servant to the farmers in order to get his share of the produce of the vineyard. But the farmers beat him and sent him back empty-handed.

Verse ConceptsGiving, Of TalentsEmpty Handed

He sent another servant, and they beat him, too, treated him shamefully, and sent him back empty-handed.

Verse ConceptsEmpty Handed

Even Herod and his soldiers treated him with contempt and made fun of him. He put a magnificent robe on Jesus and sent him back to Pilate.

Verse ConceptsClothingMockeryRidicule, Objects OfSoldiersPersecution Of ChristFine ClothesMocking ChristSoldiers Treatment Of ChristFunassertiveness

Neither does Herod, because he sent him back to us! Indeed, this man has done nothing to deserve death.

Verse ConceptsNamed Gentile RulersDeath Penalty For HeresyDeserving Death

Then they went back and prepared spices and perfumes, and on the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.

Verse Conceptsequipping, physicalLord's Day, TheOintment

and didn't find his body there, so they came back and told us that they had seen a vision of angels, who were saying that he was alive.

Verse ConceptsAngel, AnnouncementsJesus CorpseVisions From GodNot FindingChrist's Life

They got up right away, went back to Jerusalem, and found the eleven disciples and their companions all together.

Verse ConceptsElevenGroups going homejerusalem

he left Judea and went back to Galilee.

He told her, "Go and call your husband, and come back here."

Verse ConceptsOthers SummoningA Good Husband

Then the woman left her water jar and went back to town. She told people,

Verse ConceptsWater ContainersAbandoning Thingspotwomanhood

Jesus told him, "Go home. Your son will live." The man believed what Jesus told him and started back home.

Verse ConceptsKept Alive By MenThose Who Believed In Christ

and told him, "Go and wash in the pool of Siloam" (which is translated "Sent One"). So he went off, washed, and came back seeing.

Verse ConceptsMedicineVisionPoolsChrist SendingBlindnessRelationships And Dating

After this, he told the disciples, "Let's go back to Judea."

Verse ConceptsChrist Speaking To Disciples

The disciples told him, "Rabbi, the Jewish leaders were just now trying to stone you to death, and you are going back there again?"

Verse ConceptsRabbiChrist Would Be KilledFear Of Stoning

Jesus told Peter, "Put your sword back into its sheath. Shouldn't I drink the cup that the Father has given me?"

Verse ConceptsdrinkingSelf DefenceBeverages, FigurativeChrist's Relationship To GodResignationCup Of SufferingGod Giving To The SonThe Father

So Pilate went back into the governor's headquarters, summoned Jesus, and asked him, "Are you the king of the Jews?"

Verse ConceptsJews, TheRoyal HousesChrist Is King Of Israel

That disciple whom Jesus kept loving told Peter, "It's the Lord!" When Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he put his clothes back on, because he was practically naked, and jumped into the sea.

Verse ConceptsThe Beloved DiscipleClothing OneselfPeople Stripping OffPreparing For ActionSaid To Be The ChristChrist Is LordChrist's LoveIdentityIdentity In Christjumping

Jesus told him, "If it's my will for him to remain until I come back, how does that concern you? You must keep following me!"

Verse ConceptsHow Disciples Are CalledThe I Will's of ChristUnrelated ThingsInstructions About FollowingWorrying About The Futurefollowing

So the rumor spread among the brothers that this disciple wasn't going to die. Yet Jesus didn't say to Peter that he wasn't going to die, but, "If it's my will for him to remain until I come back, how does that concern you?"

Verse ConceptsRumoursNot DyingUnrelated ThingsMisunderstandingsDyingDiscipleshipDeath Of Loved OnePositive ThinkingSpreading The GospelJesus Deathrumors

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