'Time' in the Bible

At that time some Pharisees came and told Him, “Go, get out of here! Herod wants to kill You!”

Behold, your house is left unto you desolate: and verily I say unto you, Ye shall not see me, until the time come when ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.

And sent his servant at supper time to say to them that were bidden, Come; for all things are now ready.

No long time afterwards the younger son got all together and travelled to a distant country, where he wasted his money in debauchery and excess.

And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends:

And another time he said to the disciples, There was a certain man of great wealth who had a servant; and it was said to him that this servant was wasting his goods.

The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.

And in time the poor man came to his end, and angels took him to Abraham's breast. And the man of wealth came to his end, and was put in the earth.

Then Jesus told the disciples, "The time will come during which you will long to see one of these days when the Son of Man is with you, but you will not see it.

Because just as lightning flashes and shines from one end of the sky to the other, so will the Son of Man be in his time.

"Just as it was in Noah's time, so it will be in the days of the Son of Man.

The same was true in the time of Lot: they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building;

Jesus told his disciples a parable about their need to pray all the time and never give up.

and he would not for a time, but after these things he said in himself, Even if God I do not fear, and man do not regard,

And he said, All these things I have done from the time when I was a boy.

Who shall not receive manifold more in this present time, and in the world to come life everlasting.

saying, Go into the village over against you, in which ye will find, on entering it, a colt tied up, on which no child of man ever sat at any time: loose it and lead it here.

Now [as] he was drawing near by this time to the descent from the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of the disciples began rejoicing to praise God with a loud voice for all the miracles that they had seen,

"O that at this time thou hadst known--yes even thou--what makes peace possible! But now it is hid from thine eyes.

For a time [of siege] is coming when your enemies will put up a barricade [with pointed stakes] against you, and surround you [with armies] and hem you in on every side,

And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.

Then began he to speak to the people this parable; A certain man planted a vineyard, and let it forth to husbandmen, and went into a far country for a long time.

At the right time he sent a servant to the farmers in order to get his share of the produce of the vineyard. But the farmers beat him and sent him back empty-handed.

From that time, however, no one ventured to challenge Him with a single question.

"As for these things that you see, the time will come when not one stone will be left on another that won't be knocked down."

And he said, Take heed that ye be not deceived: for many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and the time draweth near: go ye not therefore after them.

This will be a time for you to serve as witnesses.

Therefore make up your minds not to prepare your defense ahead of time,

"Alas for the women who at that time are with child or who have infants; for there will be great distress in the land, and anger towards this People.

When they put out [foliage], now you see for yourselves [and] know that by this time the summer is near.

I assure you and most solemnly say to you, this generation [those living at that definite period of time preceding the second coming] will not pass away until everything takes place.

And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.

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."

His habit at this time was to teach in the Temple by day, but to go out and spend the night on the Mount called the Oliveyard.

And when the time had come, he took his seat, and the Apostles with him.

for I tell you that from this time I will never drink the produce of the vine till the Kingdom of God has come."

And after a short time another seeing him said, And thou art of them. But Peter said, Man, I am not.

But from now on, the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of the power of God.”

And as soon as he knew that he belonged unto Herod's jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, who himself also was at Jerusalem at that time.

Herod was very glad to see Jesus; for a long time he had wanted to see Him because he had heard about Him and was hoping to see some miracle performed by Him.

So he continued to question him for a long time, but Jesus gave him no answer at all.

And on that very day Herod and Pilate became friends again, for they had been for some time at enmity.

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And he said unto them the third time, Why, what evil hath he done? I have found no cause of death in him: I will therefore chastise him, and let him go.

because the time is surely coming when people will say, "How blessed are the women who couldn't bear children and the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!'

And by this time it was about the sixth hour, and darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour

Then stopping, and looking sadly at him, one of them, named Cleopas, said to him, Are you the only man living in Jerusalem who has not had news of the things which have taken place there at this time?

But we were hoping that he would be the Saviour of Israel. In addition to all this he has now let three days go by from the time when these things took place;

And they urged him strongly, saying, "Stay with us, because it is [getting] toward evening, and by this time the day is far spent." And he went in to stay with them.

In the beginning [before all time] was the Word (Christ), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God Himself.

And so the Word became flesh and took a place among us for a time; and we saw his glory--such glory as is given to an only son by his father--saw it to be true and full of grace.

No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.

"How does that concern us, dear lady?" Jesus asked her. "My time hasn't come yet."

The time of the Passover of the Jews was near and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?

After this, Jesus and His disciples went to the Judean countryside, where He spent time with them and baptized.

For at this time John had not been put into prison.

Jesus said to her, "Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.

Yet the time is coming, and is now here, when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. Indeed, the Father is looking for people like that to worship him.

You would say, Four months from now is the time of the grain-cutting. Take a look, I say to you, at the fields; they are even now white for cutting.

So when the people came to him they made request to him to be among them for a time, and he was there two days.

He asked them at what time he got better. “Yesterday at seven in the morning the fever left him,” they answered.

Then the father realized that it was the very time Jesus had said to him, "Your son will live," and he himself believed along with his entire household.

because an angel would go down into the pool from time to time and stir up the water. Then the first one who got in after the water was stirred up recovered from whatever ailment he had].

When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole?

After a time Jesus came across him in the Temple and said to him, See, you are well and strong; do no more sin for fear a worse thing comes to you.

Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, the time approaches, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear it will live.

Do not be amazed at this, because a time is coming when all who are in the graves will hear His voice

John was a burning and shining lamp, and for a time you were willing to enjoy his light.

And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape.

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.

Then they told him, "Sir, give us this bread all the time."

And Jesus said to them, 'I am the bread of the life; he who is coming unto me may not hunger, and he who is believing in me may not thirst -- at any time;

From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.

Then Jesus said unto them, My time is not yet come: but your time is alway ready.

Go ye up unto this feast: I go not up yet unto this feast; for my time is not yet full come.

So then they tried to seize Jesus, but no one laid a hand on him, because his time had not yet come.

Then Jesus said, “I am only with you for a short time. Then I’m going to the One who sent Me.

Now when they heard this, they began to drift away one at a time, starting with the older ones, until Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him.

"No one, Sir," she replied. "And *I* do not condemn you either," said Jesus; "go, and from this time do not sin any more."

(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.)

They answered him, 'Seed of Abraham we are; and to no one have we been servants at any time; how dost thou say -- Ye shall become free?'

So a second time they summoned the man who had been blind and told him, “Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner!”

Since time was, it has not been heard that any one opened the eyes of one born blind.

At that time the Feast of the Dedication took place at Jerusalem;

Jesus went back across the Jordan River again to the place where John had been baptizing at an earlier time, and he stayed there.

When therefore he heard that he was sick, he abode at that time two days in the place where he was.

Then after that time he said to his disciples, Let us go into Judaea again.

Now Jesus had not at this time come into the town, but was still in the place where Martha had seen him.

Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days.

So Jesus no longer went about publicly among the Jews, but went from there into the country near to the waste land, to a town named Ephraim, where he was for some time with the disciples.

So Jesus said, “Let her alone, so that she may keep [the rest of] it for the day of My burial.

The meaning of this His disciples did not understand at the time; but after Jesus was glorified they recollected that this was written about Him, and that they had done this to Him.

Jesus replied, "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 is the time for the judgment of this world to begin. Now the ruler of this world will be thrown out.

Jesus replied to the crowd, "The light is among you only for a short time. Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness may not overtake you. The person who walks in the darkness is in the darkness and does not know where he is going.

In so far as you have the light, put your faith in the light so that you may become sons of light. With these words Jesus went away and for a time was not seen again by them.

Just before the Passover feast, Jesus knew that his time had come to depart from this world to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he now loved them to the very end.

Now by the time of supper, the Devil had already put it into the heart of Judas, Simon Iscariot’s son, to betray Him.