'Off' in the Bible

And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear you, when ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them. Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city.

So the king immediately sent for an executioner and commanded him to bring back John’s head. And he went and had John beheaded in the prison,

When John's disciples heard about this, they came and carried off his body and laid it in a tomb.

And after He said goodbye to them, He went to the mountain to pray.

He replied, “Rightly did Isaiah prophesy about you hypocrites (play-actors, pretenders), as it is written [in Scripture],‘These people honor Me with their lips,But their heart is far from Me.

then you no longer let him do anything for his father or mother [since helping them would violate his vow of Corban];

"And whoever shall occasion the fall of one of these little ones who believe, he would be better off if, with a millstone round his neck, he were lying at the bottom of the sea.

And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:

[where their worm does not die, and the fire is not put out.]

And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:

Many angrily told him to leave off shouting; but he only cried out all the louder, "Son of David, have pity on me."

He threw off his coat, jumped up, and came to Jesus.

And many spread their garments in the way: and others cut down branches off the trees, and strawed them in the way.

And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet.

Now the Passover and Unleavened Bread were two days away; and the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how to seize Him by stealth and kill Him;

Then Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve, went off to the chief priests in order to betray Him to them.

But one of those standing there drew his sword and struck the high priest's servant, cutting off his ear.

but he ran off naked, leaving his linen cloth behind.

And Peter followed him afar off, even into the palace of the high priest: and he sat with the servants, and warmed himself at the fire.

Now at the Festival it was customary for Pilate to release to the Jews any one prisoner whom they might beg off from punishment;

And when they had mocked him, they took off the purple from him, and put his own clothes on him, and led him out to crucify him.

Someone ran and filled a sponge with sour wine, put it on a reed and gave Him a drink, saying, “Let us see whether Elijah is coming to take Him down.”

There were also women looking on afar off: among whom was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome;

They hurried off and found both Mary and Joseph, and the baby who was lying in the feeding trough.

When the devil had finished every temptation, he [temporarily] left Him until a more opportune time.

They got up, forced Jesus out of the city, and led him to the edge of the hill on which their city was built, intending to throw him off.

And when he left off speaking, he said unto Simon, 'Put back to the deep, and let down your nets for a draught;'

It was at this time that He went off to the mountain to pray, and He spent the whole night in prayer to God.

No kiss did you give me; but she from the moment I came in has not left off tenderly kissing my feet.

Other seed fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up with it and choked it out.

And it came to pass on one of the days, that he entered into a ship, himself and his disciples; and he said to them, Let us pass over to the other side of the lake; and they set off from shore.

But as they were sailing, He fell asleep. And a fierce gale of wind swept down [as if through a wind tunnel] on the lake, and they began to be swamped, and were in great danger.

When the men who tended them saw what had happened, they ran off and reported it in the town and in the countryside.

“Go back to your home, and tell all that God has done for you.” And off he went, proclaiming throughout the town all that Jesus had done for him.

The people were all weeping aloud and beating their breasts for her; but He said, "Leave off wailing; for she is not dead, but asleep."

And whosoever will not receive you, when ye go out of that city, shake off the very dust from your feet for a testimony against them.

Even the very dust of your city, which cleaveth on us, we do wipe off against you: notwithstanding be ye sure of this, that the kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.

Jesus replied and said, “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among robbers, and they stripped him and beat him, and went away leaving him half dead.

But when a stronger man than he attacks and defeats him, the stronger man strips off that man's armor in which he trusted and then divides his plunder.

the lord of that servant will come in a day in which he doth not look for him, and in an hour that he doth not know, and will cut him off, and his portion with the unfaithful he will appoint.

and he said unto the vine-dresser, Lo, three years I come seeking fruit in this fig-tree, and do not find, cut it off, why also the ground doth it render useless?

and if indeed it may bear fruit -- ;and if not so, thereafter thou shalt cut it off.'

But they all alike began to make excuses. The first one said to him, ‘I have purchased a piece of land and I have to go out and see it; please consider me excused.’

Or what king, going to war with another king, will not first take thought if he will be strong enough, with ten thousand men, to keep off him who comes against him with twenty thousand?

Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sendeth an ambassage, and desireth conditions of peace.

And after not many days the younger son gathering all together went away into a country a long way off, and there dissipated his property, living in debauchery.

And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

covered with sores and longing to make a full meal off the scraps flung on the floor from the rich man's table. Nay, the dogs, too, used to come and lick his sores.

And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.

So he shouted, "Father Abraham, have mercy on me! Send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water to cool off my tongue, because I am suffering in this fire.'

And as he entered into a certain village, there met him ten men that were lepers, which stood afar off:

And they will say to you, 'See there!' 'See here!' Do not start off and go in pursuit.

And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.

So those who were sent went off and found it as Jesus had told them.

They will fall by the edge of the sword and be carried off as captives among all the nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled on by the unbelievers until the times of the unbelievers are fulfilled."

So he went off and discussed with the high priests and the Temple police how he could betray Jesus to them.

Then one of them struck the high priest's servant, cutting off his right ear.

Then took they him, and led him, and brought him into the high priest's house. And Peter followed afar off.

When he learned with certainty that Jesus came from Herod's jurisdiction, he sent him off to Herod, who was in Jerusalem at that time.

And all his acquaintance, and the women that followed him from Galilee, stood afar off, beholding these things.

since his disciples had gone off into town to buy food.

Then the woman left her water jar, went off into the town and said to the people,

Jesus *said to him, “Go; your son lives.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and started off.

The man went off and told the Jewish leaders that it was Jesus who had made him well.

Perceiving, however, that they were about to come and carry Him off by force to make Him a king, Jesus withdrew again up the hill alone by Himself.

There they got on board a boat, and pushed off to cross the Lake to Capernaum. By this time it had become dark, and Jesus had not yet joined them.

The next day, the crowd that had stayed on the other side of the sea knew there had been only one boat. They also knew that Jesus had not boarded the boat with His disciples, but that His disciples had gone off alone.

Then the Pharisees said to them, “Have you also been deluded and swept off your feet?

and told him, "Go and wash in the pool of Siloam" (which is translated "Sent One"). So he went off, washed, and came back seeing.

He said, "The man named Jesus made some mud, spread it on my eyes, and told me, "Go to Siloam and wash.' So off I went and washed, and I received my sight."

Now Bethany was nigh unto Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off:

Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to Him, “Lord, by this time there will be an offensive odor, for he has been dead four days! [It is hopeless!]”

though some of them went off to the Pharisees and told them what He had done.

Thus the Pharisees said to one another, "You see that you can do nothing. Look, the world has run off after him!"

got up from supper, took off His [outer] robe, and taking a [servant’s] towel, He tied it around His waist.

He cuts off every branch that does not produce fruit in me, and he cuts back every branch that does produce fruit, so that it might produce more fruit.

Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it and struck the high priest's servant, cutting off his right ear. The servant's name was Malchus.

So she ran off and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, whom Jesus kept loving. She told them, "They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don't know where they have put him!"

So Peter and the other disciple took off for the tomb.

and the other disciples came by the little boat, for they were not far from the land, but as it were about two hundred cubits off, dragging the net of the fishes;

Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount called the mount of Olives, which is near Jerusalem, a sabbath-day's journey off.

For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.

So in the present case, I say to you, stay away from these men and let them alone, for if this plan or action is of men [merely human in origin], it will fail and be destroyed;

They stirred up the people, the elders, and the scribes; so they came, dragged him off, and took him to the Sanhedrin.

Then said the Lord to him, Put off thy shoes from thy feet: for the place where thou standest is holy ground.

dragged him out of the city, and stoned him, the witnesses throwing off their outer garments and giving them into the care of a young man called Saul.

Saul, however, was ravaging the church. He would enter house after house, drag off men and women, and put them in prison.

When Saul got up off the ground, he couldn't see anything, even though his eyes were open. So his companions took him by the hand and led him into Damascus.

and his hearers were all amazed, and began to ask one another, "Is not this the man who in Jerusalem tried to exterminate those who called upon that Name, and came here on purpose to carry them off in chains to the High Priests?"

When the brothers found out, they took him down to Caesarea and sent him off to Tarsus.

The news about them reached the ears of the church at Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas off to Antioch.

And they determined, according as any one of the disciples was well off, each of them to send to the brethren who dwelt in Judaea, to minister to them;

And, behold, the angel of the Lord came upon him, and a light shined in the prison: and he smote Peter on the side, and raised him up, saying, Arise up quickly. And his chains fell off from his hands.

And they said to her, You are off your head. But still she said, with decision, that it was so. And they said, It is his angel.

Then after they had fasted, prayed, and laid hands on them, they sent them off.

Then, throwing off all reserve, Paul and Barnabas said, "We were bound to proclaim God's Message to you first. But since you spurn it and judge yourselves to be unworthy of the Life of the Ages--well, we turn to the Gentiles.

But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came unto Iconium.

Then, being sent off, they went down to Antioch, and after gathering the assembly, they delivered the letter.

After they had spent some time there, they were sent off in peace by the brothers to those who had sent them.

There was such a sharp disagreement that they parted company, and Barnabas took Mark with him and sailed off to Cyprus.