'Time' in the Bible

The rooster crowed the second time. Peter remembered the word, how that Jesus said to him, "Before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times." When he thought about that, he wept.

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."

Now the time that Elizabeth should give birth was fulfilled, and she brought forth a son.

The devil, leading him up on a high mountain, showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

When the devil had completed every temptation, he departed from him until another time.

There were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed, except Naaman, the Syrian."

You gave me no kiss, but she, since the time I came in, has not ceased to kiss my feet.

Those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; but these have no root, who believe for a while, then fall away in time of temptation.

When Jesus stepped ashore, a certain man out of the city who had demons for a long time met him. He wore no clothes, and didn't live in a house, but in the tombs.

You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, but how is it that you don't interpret this time?

Now there were some present at the same time who told him about the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.

He sent out his servant at supper time to tell those who were invited, 'Come, for everything is ready now.'

The law and the prophets were until John. From that time the Good News of the Kingdom of God is preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it.

who will not receive many times more in this time, and in the world to come, eternal life."

and will dash you and your children within you to the ground. They will not leave in you one stone on another, because you didn't know the time of your visitation."

He began to tell the people this parable. "A man planted a vineyard, and rented it out to some farmers, and went into another country for a long time.

He said, "Watch out that you don't get led astray, for many will come in my name, saying, 'I am he,' and, 'The time is at hand.' Therefore don't follow them.

Therefore be watchful all the time, praying that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man."

Now when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceedingly glad, for he had wanted to see him for a long time, because he had heard many things about him. He hoped to see some miracle done by him.

He said to them the third time, "Why? What evil has this man done? I have found no capital crime in him. I will therefore chastise him and release him."

No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him.

Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb, and be born?"

When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had been sick for a long time, he asked him, "Do you want to be made well?"

The Father himself, who sent me, has testified about me. You have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form.

Jesus therefore said to them, "My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.

You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not yet fulfilled."

So they called the man who was blind a second time, and said to him, "Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner."

Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said to him, "Lord, by this time there is a stench, for he has been dead four days."

Jesus answered them, "The time has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.

"Now my soul is troubled. What shall I say? 'Father, save me from this time?' But for this cause I came to this time.

Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his time had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you such a long time, and do you not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How do you say, 'Show us the Father?'

They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.

But I have told you these things, so that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you about them. I didn't tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.

A woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow, because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she doesn't remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being is born into the world.

I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. But the time is coming when I will no more speak to you in figures of speech, but will tell you plainly about the Father.

Behold, the time is coming, yes, and has now come, that you will be scattered, everyone to his own place, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.

Jesus said these things, and lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, "Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may also glorify you;

This is now the third time that Jesus was revealed to his disciples, after he had risen from the dead.

He said to him again a second time, "Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you." He said to him, "Tend my sheep."

He said to him the third time, "Simon, son of Jonah, do you have affection for me?" Peter was grieved because he asked him the third time, "Do you have affection for me?" He said to him, "Lord, you know everything. You know that I have affection for you." Jesus said to him, "Feed my sheep.

"Of the men therefore who have accompanied us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,

But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers the first time.

On the second time Joseph was made known to his brothers, and Joseph's race was revealed to Pharaoh.

"But as the time of the promise came close which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,

At that time Moses was born, and was exceedingly handsome. He was nourished three months in his father's house.

They listened to him, because for a long time he had amazed them with his sorceries.

A voice came to him again the second time, "What God has cleansed, you must not call unclean."

But a voice answered me the second time out of heaven, 'What God has cleansed, don't you call unclean.'

Now about that time, King Herod stretched out his hands to oppress some of the assembly.

Therefore they stayed there a long time, speaking boldly in the Lord, who testified to the word of his grace, granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands.

They stayed there with the disciples for a long time.

After they had spent some time there, they were sent back with greetings from the brothers to the apostles.

Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.

When they asked him to stay with them a longer time, he declined;

Having spent some time there, he departed, and went through the region of Galatia, and Phrygia, in order, establishing all the disciples.

About that time there arose no small stir concerning the Way.

But when they perceived that he was a Jew, all with one voice for a time of about two hours cried out, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"

For Paul had determined to sail past Ephesus, that he might not have to spend time in Asia; for he was hastening, if it were possible for him, to be in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost.

When they had come to him, he said to them, "You yourselves know, from the first day that I set foot in Asia, how I was with you all the time,

As he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix was terrified, and answered, "Go your way for this time, and when it is convenient for me, I will summon you."

When much time had passed and the voyage was now dangerous, because the Fast had now already gone by, Paul admonished them,

Casting off the anchors, they left them in the sea, at the same time untying the rudder ropes. Hoisting up the foresail to the wind, they made for the beach.

But they expected that he would have swollen or fallen down dead suddenly, but when they watched for a long time and saw nothing bad happen to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god.

to demonstrate his righteousness at this present time; that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus.

For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

For the death that he died, he died to sin one time; but the life that he lives, he lives to God.

What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.

For this is a word of promise, "At the appointed time I will come, and Sarah will have a son."

Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.

For as you in time past were disobedient to God, but now have obtained mercy by their disobedience,

Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;

and last of all, as to the child born at the wrong time, he appeared to me also.

for he says, "At an acceptable time I listened to you, in a day of salvation I helped you." Behold, now is the acceptable time. Behold, now is the day of salvation.

but for equality. Your abundance at this present time supplies their lack, that their abundance also may become a supply for your lack; that there may be equality.

I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brothers that they would go before to you, and arrange ahead of time the generous gift that you promised before, that the same might be ready as a matter of generosity, and not of greediness.

Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I seek not your possessions, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

This is the third time I am coming to you. "At the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established."

I have said beforehand, and I do say beforehand, as when I was present the second time, so now, being absent, I write to those who have sinned before now, and to all the rest, that, if I come again, I will not spare;

For you have heard of my way of living in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the assembly of God, and ravaged it.

But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,

However at that time, not knowing God, you were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods.

but you know that because of weakness of the flesh I preached the Good News to you the first time.

that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.

For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),

laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold of eternal life.

For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but, having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts;

For I am already being offered, and the time of my departure has come.

in hope of eternal life, which God, who can't lie, promised before time began;

but in his own time revealed his word in the message with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior;

For to which of the angels did he say at any time, "You are my Son. Today have I become your father?" and again, "I will be to him a Father, and he will be to me a Son?"

But which of the angels has he told at any time, "Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet?"

he again defines a certain day, today, saying through David so long a time afterward (just as has been said), "Today if you will hear his voice, don't harden your hearts."

Let us therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace for help in time of need.

For although by this time you should be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the oracles of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food.