'Father' in the Bible

They therefore left their father Zabdi in the boat with the hired men, and went and followed Him.

To this their reply is a scornful laugh. He, however, puts them all out, takes the child's father and mother and those He has brought with Him, and enters the room where the child lies.

For Moses said, 'Honour thy father and thy mother' and again, 'He who curses father or mother, let him die the death.'

But *you* say, 'If a man says to his father or mother, It is a Korban (that is, a thing devoted to God)

And so you no longer allow him to do anything for his father or mother,

Then Jesus asked the father, "How long has he been like this?" "From early childhood," he said;

Immediately the father cried out, "I do believe: strengthen my weak faith."

For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall cling to his wife,

You know the Commandments--'Do not murder;' 'Do not commit adultery;' 'Do not steal;' 'Do not lie in giving evidence;' 'Do not defraud;' 'Honour thy father and thy mother.'"

"In solemn truth I tell you," replied Jesus, "that there is no one who has forsaken house or brothers or sisters, or mother or father, or children or lands, for my sake and for the sake of the Good News,

But whenever you stand praying, if you have a grievance against any one, forgive it, so that your Father in Heaven may also forgive you your offences."

"But as to that day or the exact time no one knows--not even the angels in Heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone.

and He said, "Abba! my Father! all things are possible for Thee: take this cup of suffering away from me: and yet not what I desire, but what Thou desirest."

One Simon, a Cyrenaean, the father of Alexander and Rufus, was passing along, coming from the country: him they compelled to carry His cross.