67 occurrences in 13 translations

'Kept' in the Bible

Meanwhile, the people kept waiting for Zechariah and wondering why he stayed in the sanctuary so long.

Verse ConceptsPeople WaitingPeople Who Delayed

When he did come out, he could not speak to them. Then they realized that he had seen a vision in the sanctuary. He kept making signs to them and remained speechless.

Verse ConceptsecstasyDumbnessThose Who Saw Visions

After these days his wife Elizabeth conceived and kept herself in seclusion for five months. She said,

Verse ConceptsConceptionFive Months And MoreHiding From PeopleMonthsHaving A Babyluck

But she was very perplexed at this statement, and kept pondering what kind of salutation this was.

Verse ConceptsTrouble, Causes OfPuzzlementSpoken Greetings

Everyone who heard about it kept thinking what had happened and asked, "What will this child become?" because it was obvious that the hand of the Lord was with him.

Verse ConceptsHand Of GodGod's HandPeople RememberingGod's Hands On Peopleluck

Jesus' father and mother kept wondering at the things being said about him.

Verse ConceptsAmazing

The crowds kept asking him, "What, then, should we do?"

Verse ConceptsReligious AwakeningsCrowds SeekingOne's Deeds

Amazement came over them all, and they kept saying to one another, “What is this message? For He commands the unclean spirits with authority and power, and they come out!”

Verse ConceptsExorcismsevil, victory overDemons, Delivered FromPower, God's SavingAmazement, Of Jesus Christ

At daybreak he left and went to a deserted place, while the crowds kept looking for him. When they came to him, they tried to keep him from leaving them.

Verse ConceptsDawnHabitsSeeking ChristSolitudeCrowds SeekingLeaving

So He kept on preaching in the synagogues of Judea.

But the news about Him was spreading farther, and large crowds kept gathering to hear Him and to be healed of their illnesses.

Verse ConceptsHealingFameInfirmitiesSecret PrayerHearing ChristJesus HealingTelling Of JesusComing Together

They were all astonished, and they began glorifying God; and they were filled with [reverential] fear and kept saying, “We have seen wonderful and incredible things today!”

Verse ConceptsAmazingReverence, And God's NatureAmazement, Of Christ's MiraclesTodayFear Of ChristSpecific Praising Of GodAwesurprises

The scribes and the Pharisees were watching Him closely [with malicious intent], to see if He would [actually] heal [someone] on the Sabbath, so that they might find a reason to accuse Him.

Verse ConceptsFaultsPharisees, Attitudes To Jesus ChristFalse AccusationsWatching ChristJesus HealingOpposition To Christ From ScribesPharisees Concerned About ChristThe Sabbath And ChristFinding Fault With JesusJesus Healing On Sabbath

and standing behind Him at His feet, weeping, she began to wet His feet with her tears, and kept wiping them with the hair of her head, and kissing His feet and anointing them with the perfume.

Verse ConceptsKissing ChristAffection, ExpressingAnointing With OilHairsKissingPainWeepingMealsMoist ThingsPeople Drying Things UpClean FeetCare Of FeetOther References To HairOthers Mourning

When a large crowd was gathering together, and people from city after city were coming to Him, He spoke [to them] using a parable:

Verse ConceptsCrowdsCrowds Around Jesusgathering

So his disciples went to him, woke him up, and kept telling him, "Master! Master! We're going to die!" He got up and rebuked the wind and the raging waves. They stopped, and there was calm.

Verse ConceptsRageStormsWorryMaking StillNearness Of DeathChrist Waking UpDeath Looms NearReproving ThingsThe Sea StilledGod Controls Storms

(For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For oftentimes it had caught him: and he was kept bound with chains and in fetters; and he brake the bands, and was driven of the devil into the wilderness.)

Verse ConceptsChainsDemons, Nature OfRestlessnessSatan, Character OfIron ChainsLiving In The WildernessJesus Casting Out DemonsBreaking Chains

The man from whom the demons had departed kept begging Him to be with Him. But He sent him away and said,

Verse ConceptsChrist With People On Earth

"Go home and tell what God has done for you." So the man left and kept proclaiming throughout the whole city how much Jesus had done for him.

Verse ConceptsExperience, of Godevangelists, identity ofTestify On God's BehalfFervourZealousness, Examples OfChrist's WorkTelling Of JesusFamily And FriendsGod Turning Bad Things Into Good

Just then a synagogue leader by the name of Jairus arrived. He fell at Jesus' feet and kept begging him to come to his home,

Verse ConceptsFeetBowing Before MessiahThose Jesus Healed

Herod said, "I beheaded John. But who is this man I'm hearing so much about?" So Herod kept trying to see Jesus.

Verse ConceptsBeheadingMartyrdom, Methods OfRemoving HeadsKilling DisciplesThe First Sight Of ChristWho Is Jesus?

Then He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, He blessed and broke them. He kept giving them to the disciples to set before the crowd.

Verse ConceptsThankfulnessThanksgivingFive ThingsThe Disciples ActionsBreaking Of BreadTwo AnimalsGiving Food And DrinkThanking God For FoodBreadFishFeeding The Poor

They came in glory, and kept speaking about His death, which He was so soon to undergo in Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsGlorified SaintsExodus

And when the voice was past, Jesus was found alone. And they kept it close, and told no man in those days any of those things which they had seen.

Verse ConceptsSilenceIsolated PersonsChrist Concealing Things

However, they did not understand this statement. Its meaning was kept hidden from them so that they would not grasp it; and they were afraid to ask Him about it.

Verse ConceptsDullnessNot Asking OthersFear Of ChristNot Understanding SayingsGod's Things Concealed

She had a sister named Mary, who sat down at the Lord's feet and kept listening to what he was saying.

Verse ConceptsFeetListeningSittingSitting At The FeetHearing ChristChrist TeachingIdentityIdentity In Christdistractions

How terrible it will be for you experts in the Law! You have taken away the key to knowledge. You didn't go in yourselves, and you kept out those who were trying to go in."

Verse ConceptsFalse ReligionGuidance, Need For God'sKeysWoeStumbling BlocksEntering The KingdomDrawbacks To KnowledgeTaking God's ThingsScience

Of this be sure, that if the master of the house had known what time the robber was coming, he would have kept awake and not have allowed his house to be broken into.

Verse ConceptsWhen?The Lord As A Thiefthieves

Shouldn't this woman, a descendant of Abraham whom Satan has kept bound for eighteen long years, be set free from this bondage on the Sabbath day?"

Verse ConceptsdaughtersCripplesevil, origins ofPainRescueSatan, Defeat OfSatan, Kingdom OfBindingSatan, Work Of15 To 20 YearsChildren Of AbrahamOn The SabbathJesus Healing On Sabbath

But they kept silent. He took the man, healed him, and sent him away.

Verse ConceptsTaking By The HandIndividuals Being SilentThose Jesus Healed

Now all the tax collectors and sinners kept coming to listen to Jesus.

Verse ConceptsSinnersTax CollectorsDrawing Near To ChristHearing Christtaxes

And a widow in that town kept coming to him, saying, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’

Verse ConceptsWidowsSaying RepeatedlyRevengeProtection From Enemiesvindication

“But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even raise his eyes to heaven but kept striking his chest and saying, ‘God, turn Your wrath from me—a sinner!’

Verse ConceptsContritionReconciliation, Of The World To GodRepentance, Examples OfRepentance, Nature OfConviction Of SinBeating OneselfBe Merciful!Far From Heredistancebreastspitytaxes

Then those in front told him to keep quiet, but he kept crying out all the more, “Son of David, have mercy on me!”

Verse ConceptsHeartlessnessBe Merciful!rebukingoverworking

And another came, saying, Lord, behold, here is thy pound, which I have kept laid up in a napkin:

Verse ConceptsNapkinsHidden ThingsClean FacesLarge DenominationsTalents

As he was riding along, people kept spreading their coats on the road.

Verse ConceptsUsing Roads

Then he began teaching in the Temple every day. The high priests, the scribes, and the leaders of the people kept looking for a way to kill him,

Verse ConceptsScribesTeachers Of The LawAmazement, Of Jesus ChristPlottingUnceasingAlways Being ActiveChrist TeachingChrist Would Be KilledOpposition To Christ From Scribes

But they were not able to do anything, because the people all kept near him, being greatly interested in his words.

And they kept watch on him, and sent out secret representatives, who were acting the part of good men, in order that they might get something from his words, on account of which they might give him up to the government and into the power of the ruler.

Verse ConceptsGovernorsHope, Nature OfPharisees, Attitudes To Jesus ChristHuman Authority, Nature OfSnares Laid For ChristWatching To EntrapHanding Over ChristSpyingPretendingBeware Of Your Speech

As some were talking about the temple, that it was decorated with beautiful stones and consecrated offerings [of magnificent gifts of gold which were displayed on the walls and hung in the porticoes], He said,

Verse ConceptsAdornment, Of BuildingsBeauty, In ArtefactsBeauty Of ThingsStatus Of The Temple

But you are those who have kept with me through my troubles;

Verse ConceptsTrialsTesting ChristChrist With People On Earthtrails

About an hour later, another kept insisting, “This man was certainly with Him, since he’s also a Galilean.”

Verse ConceptsHourOne HourChrist With People On Earth

But they kept insisting, “He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, from Galilee where He started even to here.”

Verse ConceptsChrist TeachingPersistence

But they kept up the pressure, demanding with loud voices that He be crucified. And their voices won out.

Verse ConceptsImportunity, Towards PeopleGroups ShoutingChrist Would Be Killed

A large crowd of people followed him, including some women who kept mourning and wailing for him.

Verse ConceptsLamentingLargenessTearsCrowds Around JesusMourning The Death Of Christ

The people stood watching, and even the leaders kept scoffing: “He saved others; let Him save Himself if this is God’s Messiah, the Chosen One!”

Verse ConceptsMockeryNosesMessiahChrist, Names ForDerisionWatching ChristSaid To Be The ChristSaying RepeatedlyMocking ChristSaving Oneselfassertiveness

Now one of the criminals hanging there kept insulting him, "You are the Messiah, aren't you? Save yourself"and us!"

Verse ConceptsThe If's Of SatanJesus Christ, Temptation OfSaid To Be The ChristSaving OneselfSave Us!Abuseassertiveness

But we kept hoping that he would be the one to redeem Israel. What is more, this is now the third day since these things occurred.

Verse ConceptsCovenant, God's with DavidHope, Nature OfLack Of InsightThe Third Day Of The WeekThe Hope Of The Gospelliberation

Then they asked each other, "Our hearts kept burning within us as he was talking to us on the road and explaining the Scriptures to us, didn't they?"

Verse ConceptsFellowship With ChristHow Disciples LearnRoadsHeart, Affections OfInward FireChrist And The Scripturesgirlfriends

They kept saying, "The Lord has really risen and has appeared to Simon!"

Verse ConceptsResurrection Of Christ, AppearancesChrist AppearingChrist Is Risen

Bible Theasaurus

Celebrate (93 instances)
Continue (334 instances)
Maintain (89 instances)
Observe (357 instances)
Prevent (56 instances)
Proceed (70 instances)
Retain (38 instances)
Sustain (46 instances)

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