11 occurrences

'Wish' in the Bible

And they were all amazed, and were in doubt, saying one unto another, 'What would this wish to be?'

Verse ConceptsAmazingConfusionPuzzlementMeaning

to kill me dost thou wish, as thou didst kill yesterday the Egyptian?

Verse ConceptsAttempting To Kill Me

to whom our fathers did not wish to become obedient, but did thrust away, and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,

Verse ConceptsConversion, God's demands forReturning to the oldDesires Of The Heart

trembling also, and astonished, he said, 'Lord, what dost thou wish me to do?' and the Lord said unto him, 'Arise, and enter into the city, and it shall be told thee what it behoveth thee to do.'

Verse ConceptsNecessityTeachablenessUnquestioning ServiceEntering CitiesGiving InformationGet Up!

And the priest of the Zeus that is before their city, oxen and garlands unto the porches having brought, with the multitudes did wish to sacrifice,

Verse ConceptsGatesPriests, Tasks In Nt TimesPriests, Types Of In Nt TimesSacrificing CattleWorshipping Men

this one did Paul wish to go forth with him, and having taken him, he circumcised him, because of the Jews who are in those places, for they all knew his father -- that he was a Greek.

Verse ConceptsCircumcision, physicalMissionary Work, Examples OfGoing TogetherIsrael HardenedJews

And certain of the Epicurean and of the Stoic philosophers, were meeting together to see him, and some were saying, 'What would this seed picker wish to say?' and others, 'Of strange demons he doth seem to be an announcer;' because Jesus and the rising again he did proclaim to them as good news,

Verse ConceptsBabblersevangelism, nature ofPhilosophyResurrection, Of The DeadFalse Teachers, Examples OfScoffersAmateursAmbiguityEncouraged To Serve Foreign gods

for certain strange things thou dost bring to our ears? we wish, then, to know what these things would wish to be;'

Verse ConceptsMeaning

but if it is a question concerning words and names, and of your law, look ye yourselves to it, for a judge of these things I do not wish to be,'

Verse ConceptsNot Judging

who also the temple did try to profane, whom also we took, and according to our law did wish to judge,

Verse ConceptsTaking The Law To HeartLack Of Holiness

and I, doubting in regard to the question concerning this, said, If he would wish to go on to Jerusalem, and there to be judged concerning these things --

Verse ConceptsPuzzlementCourt Sessions

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