27 occurrences in 12 translations

'Find' in the Bible

So they threatened Peter and John even more and then let them go. They couldn't find any way to punish them, because all the people were praising God for what had happened,

Verse ConceptsPeople Set Free By PeopleSpecific Praising Of God

But when the temple police got there, they did not find them in the jail, so they returned and reported,

Verse ConceptsOfficersNot Findingjail

But if it is really from God, you will be powerless to put them down--lest perhaps you find yourselves to be actually fighting against God."

Verse ConceptsGod, Sovereignty OfStriving With GodOther People Of GodWork EthicSuccess And Hard Workmovement

Then a famine and great suffering came over all of Egypt and Canaan, and our ancestors could find no food.

Verse ConceptsFamine, Examples OfNo Food

"The Moses whom they rejected, asking him, 'Who appointed you magistrate and judge?' --that same Moses we find God sending as a magistrate and a deliverer by the help of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

Verse ConceptsBurning bushMoses, Significance OfRejection Of GodIndividuals Saving OthersRejection

Who found favour before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.

Verse ConceptsDivine FavourBuilding God's DwellingFavor

did ask from him letters to Damascus, unto the synagogues, that if he may find any being of the way, both men and women, he may bring them bound to Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsArrestingequipping, physicalWay, TheTying Updamascus

and talking with him he went in, and doth find many having come together.

Verse ConceptsDealing With Many PeopleWhile Still Speaking

"Now at that very moment three men came to the house where we were, having been sent from Caesarea to find me.

Verse ConceptsThree Men

Then Barnabas paid a visit to Tarsus to try to find Saul.

Verse ConceptsBarnabasThose Looking For People

After Herod had searched and did not find him, he interrogated the guards and ordered their execution. Then Herod went down from Judea to Caesarea and stayed there.

Verse ConceptsCommands, in NTNot FindingSeeking But Not Finding People

And though they found no cause or charge deserving death, they asked Pilate to have Him executed.

Verse ConceptsChrist Was Killed

But the Jews became jealous, and gathering together some worthless men from the rabble in the marketplace, they formed a mob and set the city in an uproar. They attacked Jason's house, trying to find Paul and Silas to bring them out to the assembly.

Verse ConceptsEnvyIntoleranceJealousyMarketsUnbelieversEnvy, Example OfUnbelief, Examples OfDisorder Among PeopleBringing People Out Of Other PlacesIsrael HardenedMaking Israel Jealous

When they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some of the brothers before the city officials, shouting, “These men who have turned the world upside down have come here too,

Verse ConceptsTurning Upside DownPulling PeopleNot FindingTroubling Groups Of PeopleCauses of failure in

They required Jason and the rest to find substantial bail, and after that they let them go.

Verse ConceptsArrestingPeople Set Free By People

That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:

Verse ConceptsSeeking GodGod Is ImmanentGod's OmnipresenceNearness To GodFinding Godseeking

But among the crowd some were shouting one thing and some another, and when he could not find out the facts because of the uproar, he ordered him to be brought into the barracks.

Verse ConceptsCommands, in NTCastlesExcitementSoundGroups Shouting

the tribune ordered Paul to be taken into the barracks and told the soldiers to beat and question him in order to find out why the people were yelling at him like this.

Verse ConceptsScourgingInterrogatingChiliarchsWhy Do Others Do This?serenity

The next day, since he wanted to find out exactly why Paul was being accused by the Jews, he released him and instructed the chief priests and all the Sanhedrin to convene. Then he brought Paul down and placed him before them. >

Verse ConceptsChief priestsAccusations, Against Early Christians

And there arose a great cry: and the scribes that were of the Pharisees' part arose, and strove, saying, We find no evil in this man: but if a spirit or an angel hath spoken to him, let us not fight against God.

Verse ConceptsTeachers Of The LawSpirit BeingsSound

By examining him for yourself, you will be able to find out from him everything of which we accuse him."

Verse ConceptsInvestigating

When the governor nodded for him to speak, Paul answered,“Knowing that for many years you have been a judge over this nation, I make my defense cheerfully and with good courage.

Verse Conceptsevangelism, kinds ofJudgesSelf DefenceCheerfulnessMan Defending

They didn’t find me disputing with anyone or causing a disturbance among the crowd, either in the temple complex or in the synagogues or anywhere in the city.

Verse ConceptsDisputesDiscussionsDisciples In The Temple

in which certain Jews from Asia did find me purified in the temple, not with multitude, nor with tumult,

Verse ConceptsTumultDisciples In The Temple

I find that he has not done anything deserving of death. But since he has appealed to his Majesty, I have decided to send him.

Verse ConceptsempiresDeserving Death

I have nothing very definite, however, to tell our Sovereign about him. So I have brought the man before you all--and especially before you, King Agrippa--that after he has been examined I may find something which I can put into writing.

Verse ConceptsInvestigatingNot Writing

Bible Theasaurus

Ascertain (6 instances)
Breakthrough (2 instances)
Derive (3 instances)
Detect (3 instances)
Determine (43 instances)
Discover (49 instances)
Discovery (25 instances)
Encounter (23 instances)
Happen (374 instances)
Incur (27 instances)
Notice (121 instances)
Observe (357 instances)
Obtain (93 instances)
Receive (453 instances)
Recover (44 instances)
Regain (15 instances)
Retrieve (5 instances)
Settle (133 instances)
Supply (78 instances)
Uncovering (13 instances)
Witness (321 instances)

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