'Time' in the Bible

Now those who had gathered together began to ask Jesus, "Lord, is this the time when you will restore the kingdom to Israel?"

At that time, Peter got up among the brothers (there were about 120 people present) and said,

who was one of the men associated with us all the time the Lord Jesus came and went among us,

One afternoon, Peter and John were on their way to the Temple for the three o'clock prayer time.

He must remain in heaven until the time of universal restitution, which God announced long ago through the voice of his holy prophets.

After that man, at the time of the census, Judas the Galilean appeared and got people to follow him. He, too, died, and all his followers were scattered.

"Now as the time approached for the fulfillment of the promise that God had made to Abraham, the people's population increased a great deal in Egypt.

"At this time Moses was born. He was beautiful in the sight of God, and for three months he was cared for in his father's house.

"At that time they even made a calf to be their idol, offered a sacrifice to it, and delighted in what they had made with their hands.

Our ancestors brought it here with Joshua when they replaced the nations that God drove out in front of our ancestors, and it was here until the time of David.

They paid careful attention to him because he had thrilled them for a long time with his occult performances.

At that time, she got sick and died. After they had washed her, they laid her in an upstairs room.

Again the voice came to him a second time, "You must stop calling unclean what God has made clean."

Then the voice from heaven answered a second time, "You must stop calling common what God has made clean!'

At that time some prophets from Jerusalem came down to Antioch.

About that time, Herod arrested some people who belonged to the church and mistreated them.

Therefore, at a set time Herod put on his royal robes, sat down on the royal seat, and made a speech to them.

"After that, he gave them judges until the time of the prophet Samuel. When they demanded a king, God gave them Kish's son Saul, from the tribe of Benjamin, for 40 years.

They stayed there a considerable time and continued to speak boldly for the Lord, who kept affirming his word of grace and granting signs and wonders to be done by them.

Then they spent a long time with the disciples.

After staying there for some time, they were sent back with a greeting from the brothers to those who had sent them.

Now all the Athenians and the foreigners living there used to spend their time doing nothing else other than listening to the latest ideas or repeating them.

After spending some time there, he departed and went from place to place through the region of Galatia and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples.

Now about that time a great commotion broke out concerning the Way.

Then he went back upstairs, broke bread, and ate. He talked with them for a long time, until dawn, and then left.

Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus to avoid spending time in Asia, as he was in a hurry to get to Jerusalem for the day of Pentecost, if that was possible.

When they came to him, he told them, "You know how I lived among you the entire time from the first day I set foot in Asia.

but when our time there came to an end, we left and proceeded on our journey. All of them accompanied us with their wives and children out of the city. We knelt on the beach, prayed,

When our time there ended, we got ready to go up to Jerusalem.

Then Paul took those men and the next day purified himself with them. Then he went into the Temple to announce the time when their days of purification would end and when the sacrifice would be offered for each of them.

The tribune asked, "Oh, do you speak Greek? You're not the Egyptian who started a revolt some time ago and led 4,000 assassins into the desert, are you?"

At the same time he was hoping to receive a bribe from Paul, and so he would send for him frequently to talk with him.

They have known for a long time, if they would but testify to it, that I lived as a Pharisee, adhering to the standards of our strictest religious party.

Much time had been lost, and because navigation had become dangerous and the day of fasting had already past, Paul began to warn those on the ship,

After they had gone a long time without food, Paul stood among his shipmates and said, "Men, you should have listened to me and not have sailed from Crete. You would have avoided this hardship and damage.

So they cut the anchors free and left them in the sea. At the same time they untied the ropes that held the steering oars, raised the foresail to the wind, and headed for the beach.

They were expecting him to swell up or suddenly drop dead, but after waiting a long time and seeing nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and said he was a god.