'Near' in the Bible

The Jewish Passover was near, so Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

And John also was baptizing in AEnon near to Salim, because there was much water there: and they came, and were baptized.

Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

When it came to his ears that Jesus had come from Judaea into Galilee, he went to him and made a request that he would come down to his son, who was near to death, and make him well.

Near the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem is a pool called Bethesda in Hebrew. It has five colonnades,

Now the Passover, a Jewish festival, was near.

After they had rowed about three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the sea. He was coming near the boat, and they were afraid.

Some boats from Tiberias came near the place where they ate the bread after the Lord gave thanks.

The Jewish Festival of Tabernacles was near,

(Jesus spoke these words near the offering box while he was teaching in the temple courts. No one seized him because his time had not yet come.)

Some of the Pharisees who were near him overheard this and asked him, "We aren't blind, too, are we?"

Bethany was near Jerusalem (about two miles away).

Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews; but went thence unto a country near to the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim, and there continued with his disciples.

The Jewish Passover was near, and many went up to Jerusalem from the country to purify themselves before the Passover.

these then came near to Philip, who is from Bethsaida of Galilee, and were asking him, saying, 'Sir, we wish to see Jesus;'

Many of the Jews read this sign, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek.

Meanwhile, standing near Jesus' cross were his mother, his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.

So Jesus, seeing His mother, and the disciple whom He loved (esteemed) standing near, said to His mother, “[Dear] woman, look, [here is] your son!”

Now there was a garden near the cross, and in the garden a new place for the dead in which no man had ever been put.

There therefore, on account of the preparation of the Jews, because the tomb was near, they laid Jesus.

and Mary was standing near the tomb, weeping without; as she was weeping, then, she stooped down to the tomb, and beholdeth two messengers in white, sitting,