'Time' in the Bible

Jesus replied, "Woman, why are you saying this to me? My time has not yet come."

Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter his mother's womb and be born a second time, can he?"

After this, Jesus and his disciples came into Judean territory, and there he spent time with them and was baptizing.

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

But a time is coming -- and now is here -- when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such people to be his worshipers.

So he asked them the time when his condition began to improve, and they told him, "Yesterday at one o'clock in the afternoon the fever left him."

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.

When Jesus saw him lying there and when he realized that the man had been disabled a long time already, he said to him, "Do you want to become well?"

I tell you the solemn truth, a time is coming -- and is now here -- when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.

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

He was a lamp that was burning and shining, and you wanted to rejoice greatly for a short time in his light.

And the Father who sent me has himself testified about me. You people have never heard his voice nor seen his form at any time,

So they said to him, "Sir, give us this bread all the time!"

So Jesus replied, "My time has not yet arrived, but you are ready at any opportunity!

You go up to the feast yourselves. I am not going up to this feast because my time has not yet fully arrived."

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

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.

(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.)

Then they summoned the man who used to be blind a second time and said to him, "Promise before God to tell the truth. We know that this man is a sinner."

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

Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sister of the deceased, replied, "Lord, by this time the body will have a bad smell, because he has been buried four days."

Jesus replied, "The time has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.

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.

You will know at that time that I am in my Father and you are in me and I am in you.

They will put you out of the synagogue, yet a time is coming when the one who kills you will think he is offering service to God.

But I have told you these things so that when their time comes, you will remember that I told you about them. "I did not tell you these things from the beginning because I was with you.

When a woman gives birth, she has distress because her time has come, but when her child is born, she no longer remembers the suffering because of her joy that a human being has been born into the world.

At that time you will ask me nothing. I tell you the solemn truth, whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you.

"I have told you these things in obscure figures of speech; a time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in obscure figures, but will tell you plainly about the Father.

At that time you will ask in my name, and I do not say that I will ask the Father on your behalf.

Look, a time is coming -- and has come -- when you will be scattered, each one to his own home, and I will be left alone. Yet I am not alone, because my Father is with me.

When Jesus had finished saying these things, he looked upward to heaven and said, "Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, so that your Son may glorify you --

He then said to his disciple, "Look, here is your mother!" From that very time the disciple took her into his own home.

After this Jesus, realizing that by this time everything was completed, said (in order to fulfill the scripture), "I am thirsty!"

This was now the third time Jesus was revealed to the disciples after he was raised from the dead.

Jesus said a second time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" He replied, "Yes, Lord, you know I love you." Jesus told him, "Shepherd my sheep."

Jesus said a third time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" Peter was distressed that Jesus asked him a third time, "Do you love me?" and said, "Lord, you know everything. You know that I love you." Jesus replied, "Feed my sheep.