Noun archē (beginning) in the Gospels-Acts

(Translation from NRSV for the New Testament with a few modifications for a more literal meaning)


Matthew

19: 4He answered, "Have you not read that the one who made them at the beginning (archē) 'made them male and female,'
19: 8He said to them, "It was because you were so hard-hearted that Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning (archē) it was not so.
24: 8all this is but the beginning (archē) of the birth pangs.
24: 21For at that time there will be great suffering, such as has not been from the beginning (archē) of the world until now, no, and never will be.

Mark

1: 1The beginning (archē) of the good news of Jesus Christ, [Son of God].
10: 6But from the beginning (archē) of creation, 'God made them male and female.'
13: 8For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; there will be earthquakes in various places; there will be famines. This is but the beginning (archē) of the birth pangs.
13: 19For in those days there will be suffering, such as has not been from the beginning (archē) of the creation that God created until now, no, and never will be.

Luke

1: 2just as they were handed on to us by those who from the beginning (archē) were eyewitnesses and servants of the word,
12: 11When they bring you before the synagogues, the rulers (archē), and the authorities, do not worry about how you are to defend yourselves or what you are to say;
20: 20So they watched him and sent spies who pretended to be honest, in order to trap him by what he said, so as to hand him over to the ruler (archē) and authority of the governor.

John

1: 1In the beginning (archē) was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
1: 2He was in the beginning (archē) with God.
2: 11Jesus did this, the beginning (archē) of his signs, in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.
6: 64But among you there are some who do not believe." For Jesus knew from the beginning (archē) who were the ones that did not believe, and who was the one that would betray him.
8: 25They said to him, "Who are you?" Jesus said to them, "What I am telling you in the beginning (archē)?
8: 44You are from your father the devil, and you choose to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning (archē) and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
15: 27You also are to testify because you have been with me from the beginning (archē).
16: 4But I have said these things to you so that when their hour comes you may remember that I told you about them. "I did not say these things to you from the beginning (archē), because I was with you.

Acts

10: 11He saw the heaven opened and something like a large sheet coming down, being lowered to the ground by its four corners (archē).
11: 5"I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision. There was something like a large sheet coming down from heaven, being lowered by its four corners (archē); and it came close to me.
11: 15And as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them just as it had upon us at the beginning (archē).
26: 4"All the Jews know my way of life from my youth, a life spent from the beginning (archē) among my own people and in Jerusalem.

1 John

1: 1We declare to you what was from the beginning (archē), what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and touched with our hands, concerning the word of life -
2: 7Beloved, I am writing you no new commandment, but an old commandment that you have had from the beginning (archē); the old commandment is the word that you have heard.
2: 13I am writing to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning (archē). I am writing to you, young people, because you have conquered the evil one.
2: 14I write to you, children, because you know the Father. I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning (archē). I write to you, young people, because you are strong and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one.
2: 24Let what you heard from the beginning (archē) abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning (archē) abides in you, then you will abide in the Son and in the Father.
3: 8Everyone who commits sin is a child of the devil; for the devil has been sinning from the beginning (archē). The Son of God was revealed for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil.
3: 11For this is the message you have heard from the beginning (archē), that we should love one another.

2 John

1: 5But now, dear lady, I ask you, not as though I were writing you a new commandment, but one we have had from the beginning (archē), let us love one another.
1: 6And this is love, that we walk according to his commandments; this is the commandment just as you have heard it from the beginning (archē) - you must walk in it.