'Began' in the Bible

And he began to say unto them -- 'To-day hath this writing been fulfilled in your ears;'

And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, 'Who is this that doth speak evil words? who is able to forgive sins, except God only?'

and the dead sat up, and began to speak, and he gave him to his mother;

And the messengers of John having gone away, he began to say unto the multitudes concerning John: 'What have ye gone forth to the wilderness to look on? a reed by the wind shaken?

and having stood behind, beside his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with the tears, and with the hairs of her head she was wiping, and was kissing his feet, and was anointing with the ointment.

and those reclining with him (at meat) began to say within themselves, 'Who is this, who also doth forgive sins?'

And the day began to decline, and the twelve having come near, said to him, 'Let away the multitude, that having gone to the villages and the fields round about, they may lodge and may find provision, because here we are in a desert place.'

And the multitudes crowding together upon him, he began to say, 'This generation is evil, a sign it doth seek after, and a sign shall not be given to it, except the sign of Jonah the prophet,

And in his speaking these things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees began fearfully to urge and to press him to speak about many things,

At which time the myriads of the multitude having been gathered together, so as to tread upon one another, he began to say unto his disciples, first, 'Take heed to yourselves of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy;

'And they began with one consent all to excuse themselves: The first said to him, A field I bought, and I have need to go forth and see it; I beg of thee, have me excused.

saying -- This man began to build, and was not able to finish.

and he having spent all, there came a mighty famine on that country, and himself began to be in want;

because this my son was dead, and did live again, and he was lost, and was found; and they began to be merry.

and as he is coming nigh now, at the descent of the mount of the Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began rejoicing to praise God with a great voice for all the mighty works they had seen,

And having entered into the temple, he began to cast forth those selling in it, and those buying,

And he began to speak unto the people this simile: 'A certain man planted a vineyard, and gave it out to husbandmen, and went abroad for a long time,

And they began to reason among themselves, who then of them it may be, who is about to do this thing.

and began to accuse him, saying, 'This one we found perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying himself to be Christ a king.'