74 occurrences in 12 translations

'Happen' in the Bible

So Jesus replied to him, "Let it happen now, for it is right for us to fulfill all righteousness." Then John yielded to him.

Verse ConceptsNowGospel, Essence OfA Righteous People

Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they go in and settle there. And so the final condition of that person becomes worse than the first. That's just what will happen to this evil generation!"

Verse Conceptsevil, origins ofSevenEvil GenerationsSeven SpiritsDemons EnteringMore ThanWorseBackslidersDemonsCasting Out Demonshomecoming

Then Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him, “Oh no, Lord! This will never happen to You!”

Verse ConceptsInsightPeter, The DiscipleRebukeLack Of InsightNeverContradictingPassionroadblockspeter

How terrible it will be for the world due to its temptations to sin! Temptations to sin are bound to happen, but how terrible it will be for that person who causes someone to sin!

Verse ConceptsNecessityWoeDenunciationsCausing Others To StumbleSure KnowledgeWoe To The WickedTemptationOvercoming AdversityOvercoming Obstacles

Then Peter answering said to him, Behold, we have left all things and have followed thee; what then shall happen to us?

Verse ConceptsBeing A PilgrimPeter, The DiscipleSelf DenialSaints, As PilgrimsPilgrims, Examples OfNever Giving Upfollowing

Jesus answered them, "I tell all of you with certainty, if you have faith and do not doubt, not only will you be able to do what has been done to the fig tree, but you will also say to this mountain, "Be removed and thrown into the sea,' and it will happen.

Verse ConceptsAffirmationsdoubt, results ofIndecisionMountains RemovedPlucking OutChrist Telling The TruthIn The Heart Of The SeaOther MiraclesFaith Moving MountainsMoving On

Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye go round the sea and the dry land to make one proselyte, and whenever it may happen -- ye make him a son of gehenna twofold more than yourselves.

Verse ConceptsExploitationsJudaismMission, Of IsraelPharisees, Beliefs OfPassing OverSonsTravelHypocrites, Description OfGehennaProselytesSea TravelOnly One PersonDouble PenaltyCrossing To The Other SideHypocrisy

I tell all of you with certainty, all these things will happen to those living today."

While He was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples approached Him privately and said, “Tell us, when will these things happen? And what is the sign of Your coming and of the end of the age?”

Verse ConceptsArmageddonLast DaysMountainsPrivacySignsCuriosityEnd Of The WorldPeople Sitting DownSigns Of Christ's ReturnWhen?Christ With His Disciplesend times prophecyInformation AgeThe End Of The WorldSigns Of The End TimesThe Second ComingEnd Timesmath

I tell all of you with certainty, this generation won't disappear until these things happen.

Verse ConceptsThis GenerationOlivet DiscourseUniversalismSigns Of The End TimesThe Second Comingrebirth

But they kept saying, "This must not happen during the festival. Otherwise, there'll be a riot among the people."

Verse ConceptsDisorder Among PeopleAt The Same Time

How, then, would the Scriptures be fulfilled that say it must happen this way?”

Verse ConceptsChrist And The ScripturesScriptures FulfilledScripturefulfillment

And they were in the way going up to Jerusalem; and Jesus went before them: and they were amazed; and as they followed, they were afraid. And he took again the twelve, and began to tell them what things should happen unto him,

Verse ConceptsDivine LeadingLonelinessFear, Of FutureChrist Going BeforePredicting The FutureTwelve Disciples

Once again, Jesus took the Twelve aside and began to tell them what was going to happen to him. "Pay attention! We're going up to Jerusalem. The Son of Man will be handed over to the high priests and the scribes, and they'll condemn him to death. Then they'll hand him over to the unbelievers,

Verse ConceptsChief priestsSanhedrinHanding Over ChristSuffering From ForeignersCondemning JesusOpposition To Christ From ScribesThe Chief Priests Condemning Christ

I assure you: If anyone says to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him.

Verse Conceptsdoubt, results ofHeart, And Holy SpiritIndecisionMountains RemovedChrist Telling The TruthIn The Heart Of The SeaMan's Words FulfilledHindrancesFaith Moving Mountainsjumping

“Tell us, when will these things happen? And what will be the sign when all these things are about to take place?”

Verse ConceptsTeachablenessSigns Of Christ's ReturnWhen?

But when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be not disturbed, for this must happen, but the end is not yet.

Verse ConceptsTrouble, Causes OfCivil StrifeRumoursWarsEnd Of The WorldPrinciples Of WarSigns Of The TimesWarrumors

because those days will be a time of suffering, a kind that has not happened from the beginning of God's creation until now, and certainly will never happen again.

Verse ConceptsDay of the LORDBeginningUnique EventsFrom The Beginning

Most certainly I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things happen.

Verse ConceptsPermanenceGod Not DelayingImminence

because they kept saying, "This must not happen during the festival. Otherwise, there'll be a riot among the people."

Verse ConceptsDisorder Among People

Behold, you will be silent and not able to speak, until the day that these things will happen, because you didn't believe my words, which will be fulfilled in their proper time."

Verse ConceptsDeafnessdisabilitiesMutenessUnbelief, And Life Of FaithUnbelief, Examples OfSkepticismNot Believing PeopleDumbspeakingEverything Happening For A Reasongabriel

Mary asked the angel, "How can this happen, since I have not had relations with a man?"

Verse ConceptsIncarnationThe Virgin BirthUnmarriedJesus BirthSexual Puritygabriel

How could this happen to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?

Verse ConceptsHumility, Examples OfThose To Whom God Gives

He will come and destroy those farmers and give the vineyard to others." Those who heard him said, "That must never happen!"

Verse ConceptsCareFar Be It!God Gave The LandGod Will Kill His PeopleEviction

And they questioned him, saying, 'Teacher, when, then, shall these things be? and what is the sign when these things may be about to happen?'

Verse ConceptsSigns Of Christ's ReturnWhen?Signs Of The End Times

and when ye may hear of wars and uprisings, be not terrified, for it behoveth these things to happen first, but the end is not immediately.'

Verse ConceptsBeing OrganizedEnd Of The WorldBeforePrinciples Of WarSigns Of The TimesHard TimesWarrumors

"But before all these things happen they will lay hands on you and persecute you. They will deliver you up to synagogues and to prison, and you will be brought before kings and governors for my sake.

Verse ConceptsGovernorsImprisonmentsPersecution, Nature OfPersecution PredictedBeforeHanding Over PeopleGentile RulersPersecutionjail

When those around Him saw what was going to happen, they asked, “Lord, should we strike with the sword?”

For if they do these things when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?”

Verse ConceptsTreesGreenFreshChristmas TreeEverything Happening For A Reasonluck

I myself have [actually] seen [that happen], and my testimony is that this is the Son of God!”

Verse ConceptsSonsMessianic Titles, Son Of GodContemporary Witness To Christ

Nicodemus answered and said to him, 'How are these things able to happen?'

If I have told you about things that happen on earth and you don’t believe, how will you believe if I tell you about things of heaven?

Verse ConceptsNot Believing In JesusNot Believing PeopleChrist And HeavenGoing To HeavenEverything Happening For A ReasonBelieving In Yourself

After this, Jesus found him in the temple complex and said to him, “See, you are well. Do not sin anymore, so that something worse doesn’t happen to you.”

Verse ConceptsAfflicted SaintsDeliverance, Response ToSin, Accepting Forgiveness OfWarningFinding PeopleChrist In The TempleHealth AchievedWorse

“I am telling you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe that I am He.

Verse ConceptsThe Existence Of ChristPredicting The Future

I have told you now before it happens so that when it does happen you may believe.

Verse ConceptsProphecies Said By JesusPredicting The FutureBelieve In Christ!

Then Jesus, knowing everything that was about to happen to Him, went out and said to them, “Who is it you’re looking for?”

Verse ConceptsForeknowledgeForeknowledge Of ChristChrist Knowing About HimselfDeath

When the Commander of the Temple Guards and the High Priests heard this statement, they were utterly at a loss with regard to it, wondering what would happen next.

Verse ConceptsCaptainsChief priestsPuzzlement

“Please pray to the Lord for me,” Simon replied, “so that nothing you have said may happen to me.”

Verse ConceptsPray For UsPraying For SinnersUnfulfilled Word

When Peter came to himself, he said, "Now I know for certain that the Lord has sent his angel and rescued me from the hand of Herod and from everything the Jewish people were expecting to happen."

Verse ConceptsSafetySelf KnowledgeAngels Doing God's WorkChrist Sendingexpectations

So beware that what is said in the prophets does not happen to you:

Verse Conceptsevil, warnings againstWritten In The Prophets

"Therefore, Sirs, take courage; for I believe God, and am convinced that things will happen exactly as I have been told.

Verse ConceptsCheerfulnessTake Courage!MissionariesCourageEverything Happening For A Reason

They expected that he would swell up or suddenly drop dead. But after they waited a long time and saw nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and said he was a god.

Verse ConceptsFalse GodsWaitingPossibility Of DeathPeople Changing Their MindsSwellingMen As Gods

But I have used none of these rights, and I have not written this to make it happen that way for me. For it would be better for me to die than for anyone to deprive me of my boast!

Verse ConceptsHope, Nature OfWagesPaul's BoastingBoasting

However, this will happen to each person in the proper order: first the Messiah, then those who belong to the Messiah when he comes.

Verse ConceptsSecond Coming Of Christ, The PurposeChrist, Names ForChrist The BeginningMetaphorical FirstfruitsOur ResurrectionThe Second Comingorder

Now when this perishable puts on the imperishable, and this mortal puts on immortality, then the saying that is written will happen, "Death has been swallowed up in victory."

Verse ConceptsThe Immortal SoulTransient BodyClothed With Good ThingsOvercoming DeathPeople Are CorruptibleScriptures Fulfilled

out of the same mouth doth come forth blessing and cursing; it doth not need, my brethren, these things so to happen;

Verse ConceptsBlessedCursingAbusive MarriagesBlessing And CurseUngodly CursingThe TongueBlessing OthersSwearingcurses

Yet you do not know [the least thing] about what may happen in your life tomorrow. [What is secure in your life?] You are merely a vapor [like a puff of smoke or a wisp of steam from a cooking pot] that is visible for a little while and then vanishes [into thin air].

Verse ConceptsMidlife CrisisFutureFutilityLife Expectancy, TodayLast ThingsLife, HumanMistWeather, As God's JudgmentLife, Brevity OfUncertain, Things That AreThe Shortness Of TimeVapourWithheld KnowledgeDisappearanceNot Knowing The FutureImminent TomorrowA Short TimeWasting TimeOvercoming Adversityuncertaintytomorrowsmokinggrandmas

"If it is hard for the righteous person to be saved, what will happen to the ungodly and sinful person?"

Verse ConceptsPeter, Preacher And TeacherSinnersSuffering, Of The InnocentUngodlinessHard To Be Saved

and if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and destroyed them by burning them to ashes, making them an example to ungodly people of what is going to happen to them;

Verse ConceptsExamples, Purpose OfSexual Sin, Nature OfAfflictions Of The WickedDestruction Of CitiesTwo CitiesAshes Of HumiliationExamples Of Ungodly Mencondemnation

But these men sneer at anything which they do not understand; and whatever they do know by [mere] instinct, like unreasoning and irrational beasts—by these things they are destroyed.

Verse ConceptsInstinctDestruction Of The WickedMammalsMental Abuse

Therefore, write down what you have seen, what is, and what is going to happen after this.

Verse ConceptsPredicting The FutureWriting The New TestamentJournalizingEnd Timesrevelation

After these things, I saw a door standing open in heaven. The first voice that I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, "Come up here, and I will show you what must happen after this."

Verse ConceptsNecessityHeaven, Glimpsed By HumansThe Act Of OpeningOpening HeavenGoing Up To HeavenTrumpets For SignallingPredicting The FutureGod's VoiceSpecial RevelationGoing To HeavenRainbowPurgatoryThe Rapturerevelation

the light of a lampwill never shine in you again;and the voice of a groom and bridewill never be heard in you again.All this will happenbecause your merchantswere the nobility of the earth,because all the nations were deceivedby your sorcery,

Verse ConceptsBabylonBridegroomBridesGuidance, Need For God'sSorcery And MagicCessationStopping RejoicingLight Of LampsMarriage No MoreThose Who DeceivedSorcery

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Appear (157 instances)
Arrive (57 instances)
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Happen (374 instances)
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