'Time' in the Bible

So when they had gathered together, they began to ask him, "Lord, is this the time when you are restoring the kingdom to Israel?"

Thus one of the men who have accompanied us during all the time the Lord Jesus associated with us,

Now Peter and John were going up to the temple at the time for prayer, at three o'clock in the afternoon.

This one heaven must receive until the time all things are restored, which God declared from times long ago through his holy prophets.

But a Pharisee whose name was Gamaliel, a teacher of the law who was respected by all the people, stood up in the council and ordered the men to be put outside for a short time.

For some time ago Theudas rose up, claiming to be somebody, and about four hundred men joined him. He was killed, and all who followed him were dispersed and nothing came of it.

So when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our ancestors there the first time.

"But as the time drew near for God to fulfill the promise he had declared to Abraham, the people increased greatly in number in Egypt,

At that time Moses was born, and he was beautiful to God. For three months he was brought up in his father's house,

At that time they made an idol in the form of a calf, brought a sacrifice to the idol, and began rejoicing in the works of their hands.

Our ancestors received possession of it and brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations that God drove out before our ancestors, until the time of David.

And they paid close attention to him because he had amazed them for a long time with his magic.

At that time she became sick and died. When they had washed her body, they placed it in an upstairs room.

The voice spoke to him again, a second time, "What God has made clean, you must not consider ritually unclean!"

But the voice replied a second time from heaven, 'What God has made clean, you must not consider ritually unclean!'

At that time some prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch.

About that time King Herod laid hands on some from the church to harm them.

Now look, the hand of the Lord is against you, and you will be blind, unable to see the sun for a time!" Immediately mistiness and darkness came over him, and he went around seeking people to lead him by the hand.

All this took about four hundred fifty years. After this he gave them judges until the time of Samuel the prophet.

So they stayed there for a considerable time, speaking out courageously for the Lord, who testified to the message of his grace, granting miraculous signs and wonders to be performed through their hands.

So they spent considerable time with the disciples.

After there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them, "Brothers, you know that some time ago God chose me to preach to the Gentiles so they would hear the message of the gospel and believe.

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

(All the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there used to spend their time in nothing else than telling or listening to something new.)

After he spent some time there, Paul left and went through the region of Galatia and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples.

At that time a great disturbance took place concerning the Way.

A young man named Eutychus, who was sitting in the window, was sinking into a deep sleep while Paul continued to speak for a long time. Fast asleep, he fell down from the third story and was picked up dead.

Then Paul went back upstairs, and after he had broken bread and eaten, he talked with them a long time, until dawn. Then he left.

For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus so as not to spend time in the province of Asia, for he was hurrying to arrive in Jerusalem, if possible, by the day of Pentecost.

When they arrived, he said to them, "You yourselves know how I lived the whole time I was with you, from the first day I set foot in the province of Asia,

When our time was over, we left and went on our way. All of them, with their wives and children, accompanied us outside of the city. After kneeling down on the beach and praying,

Then you're not that Egyptian who started a rebellion and led the four thousand men of the 'Assassins' into the wilderness some time ago?"

When Paul had been summoned, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying, "We have experienced a lengthy time of peace through your rule, and reforms are being made in this nation through your foresight.

At the same time he was also hoping that Paul would give him money, and for this reason he sent for Paul as often as possible and talked with him.

They know, because they have known me from time past, if they are willing to testify, that according to the strictest party of our religion, I lived as a Pharisee.

Agrippa said to Paul, "In such a short time are you persuading me to become a Christian?"

Paul replied, "I pray to God that whether in a short or a long time not only you but also all those who are listening to me today could become such as I am, except for these chains."

Since considerable time had passed and the voyage was now dangerous because the fast was already over, Paul advised them,

So they slipped the anchors and left them in the sea, at the same time loosening the linkage that bound the steering oars together. Then they hoisted the foresail to the wind and steered toward the beach.

But they were expecting that he was going to swell up or suddenly drop dead. So after they had waited a long time and had seen nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and said he was a god.