'Instead' in the Bible

But He would not let him; instead, He told him, “Go back home to your own people, and report to them how much the Lord has done for you and how He has had mercy on you.”

because they had not understood about the loaves. Instead, their hearts were hardened.

Then the Pharisees and the scribes asked Him, “Why don’t Your disciples live according to the tradition of the elders, instead of eating bread with ritually unclean hands?”

Instead, immediately after hearing about Him, a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit came and fell at His feet.

But to sit at My right or left is not Mine to give; instead, it is for those it has been prepared for.”

But the chief priests stirred up the crowd so that he would release Barabbas to them instead.