'Began' in the Bible

So the disciples began to say to one another, "No one brought him [anything] to eat, [did they]?"

So when the Samaritans came to him, they began asking him to stay with them. And he stayed there two days.

And immediately the man became well and picked up his mat and began to walk. (Now it was the Sabbath on that day.)

And on account of this the Jews began to persecute Jesus, because he was doing these [things] on the Sabbath.

Now [when] the people saw the sign that he performed, they began to say, "This one is truly the Prophet who is to come into the world!"

And getting into a boat, they began to go to the other side of the sea, to Capernaum. And it had already become dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them.

And the sea began to be stirred up [because] a strong wind was blowing.

Now the Jews began to grumble about him because he said, "I am the bread that came down from heaven,"

So the Jews began to quarrel {among themselves}, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"

{Now when the feast was already half over}, Jesus went to the temple [courts] and began to teach.

Then some of the inhabitants of Jerusalem began to say, "Is this not [the one] whom they are seeking to kill?

Then, [when they] heard these words, [some] from the crowd began to say, "This man is truly the Prophet!"

Now early in the morning he came again to the temple [courts]. And all the people were coming, and he sat down [and] began to teach them.

(Now they were saying this to test him, so that they would have [an occasion] to bring charges against him.) But Jesus, bending down, began to write with [his] finger on the ground, taking no notice.

Now [when they] heard [it], being convicted by their conscience, they began to depart, one by one, beginning with the older ones, and Jesus was left alone--and the woman who was in [their] midst.

Then the Jews began to say, "Perhaps he will kill himself, because he is saying, 'Where I am going you cannot come.'"

So they began to say to him, "Who are you?" Jesus said to them, "{What} I have been saying to you [from] the beginning.

Then the neighbors and those who saw him previously (because he was a beggar) began to say, "Is this man not the one who used to sit and beg?"

So they began to say to him, "How were your eyes opened?"

So the Jews surrounded him and began to say to him, "{How long will you keep us in suspense}? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly!"

And many came to him and began to say, "John performed no sign, but everything John said about this man was true!"

took the branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, and began crying out, "Hosanna! Blessed [is] the one who comes in the name of the Lord, even the king of Israel!"

So these approached Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and began asking him saying, "Sir, we want to see Jesus."

Then he poured water into the washbasin and began to wash the feet of the disciples, and to wipe [them] dry with the towel {which he had tied around himself}.

The disciples began looking at one another, uncertain about whom he was speaking.