'Found' in the Bible

And immediately she fell at his feet and breathed her last, and the young men came in and found her dead, and they carried her out and buried her beside her husband.

saying, “We found the prison house locked quite securely and the guards standing at the doors; but when we had opened up, we found no one inside.”

but if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow them; or else you may even be found fighting against God.”

The statement found approval with the whole congregation; and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas and Nicolas, a proselyte from Antioch.

David found favor in God’s sight, and asked that he might find a dwelling place for the God of Jacob.

But Philip found himself at Azotus, and as he passed through he kept preaching the gospel to all the cities until he came to Caesarea.

and asked for letters from him to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any belonging to the Way, both men and women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.

There he found a man named Aeneas, who had been bedridden eight years, for he was paralyzed.

As he talked with him, he entered and *found many people assembled.

and when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. And for an entire year they met with the church and taught considerable numbers; and the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.

When Herod had searched for him and had not found him, he examined the guards and ordered that they be led away to execution. Then he went down from Judea to Caesarea and was spending time there.

When they had gone through the whole island as far as Paphos, they found a magician, a Jewish false prophet whose name was Bar-Jesus,

After He had removed him, He raised up David to be their king, concerning whom He also testified and said, ‘I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after My heart, who will do all My will.’

And though they found no ground for putting Him to death, they asked Pilate that He be executed.

But when the Jews of Thessalonica found out that the word of God had been proclaimed by Paul in Berea also, they came there as well, agitating and stirring up the crowds.

For while I was passing through and examining the objects of your worship, I also found an altar with this inscription, ‘TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.’ Therefore what you worship in ignorance, this I proclaim to you.

And he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, having recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to leave Rome. He came to them,

It happened that while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul passed through the upper country and came to Ephesus, and found some disciples.

And many of those who practiced magic brought their books together and began burning them in the sight of everyone; and they counted up the price of them and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.

and having found a ship crossing over to Phoenicia, we went aboard and set sail.

Therefore those who were about to examine him immediately let go of him; and the commander also was afraid when he found out that he was a Roman, and because he had put him in chains.

and I found him to be accused over questions about their Law, but under no accusation deserving death or imprisonment.

For we have found this man a real pest and a fellow who stirs up dissension among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.

in which they found me occupied in the temple, having been purified, without any crowd or uproar. But there were some Jews from Asia—

Or else let these men themselves tell what misdeed they found when I stood before the Council,

But I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death; and since he himself appealed to the Emperor, I decided to send him.

There the centurion found an Alexandrian ship sailing for Italy, and he put us aboard it.

They took soundings and found it to be twenty fathoms; and a little farther on they took another sounding and found it to be fifteen fathoms.

When they had been brought safely through, then we found out that the island was called Malta.

There we found some brethren, and were invited to stay with them for seven days; and thus we came to Rome.