διά diá

Meaning

through (in very wide applications, local, causal, or occasional)

In the King James Version: after, always, among, at, to avoid, because of (that), briefly, by, for (cause) … fore, from, in, by occasion of, of, by reason of, for sake, that, thereby, therefore, X though, through(-out), to, wherefore, with (-in)

Derivation: a primary preposition denoting the channel of an act;

Where it is used

• Luke 19:31 If anyone asks, ‘Why are you untying it?’ tell him, ‘The Lord needs it.’”
• Luke 20:5 They deliberated among themselves and said, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ He will ask, ‘Why did you not believe him?’
• Luke 21:17 And you will be hated by everyone because of My name.
• Luke 22:22 Indeed, the Son of Man will go as it has been determined, but woe to that man who betrays Him.”
• Luke 23:8 When Herod saw Jesus, he was greatly pleased. He had wanted to see Him for a long time, because he had heard about Him and was hoping to see Him perform a miracle.
• Luke 23:19 (Barabbas had been imprisoned for an insurrection in the city, and for murder.)
• Luke 23:25 As they had requested, he released the one imprisoned for insurrection and murder, and he handed Jesus over to their will.
• Luke 24:38 “Why are you troubled,” Jesus asked, “and why do doubts arise in your hearts?
• Luke 24:53 praising God continually in the temple.
• John 1:3 Through Him all things were made, and without Him nothing was made that has been made.
• John 1:7 He came as a witness to testify about the Light, so that through him everyone might believe.
• John 1:10 He was in the world, and though the world was made through Him, the world did not recognize Him.
• John 1:17 For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
• John 1:31 I myself did not know Him, but the reason I came baptizing with water was that He might be revealed to Israel.”
• John 2:24 But Jesus did not entrust Himself to them, for He knew them all.
• John 3:17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him.
• John 3:29 The bride belongs to the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom stands and listens for him, and is overjoyed to hear the bridegroom’s voice. That joy is mine, and it is now complete.
• John 4:4 Now He had to pass through Samaria.
• John 4:39 Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in Jesus because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I ever did.”
• John 4:41 And many more believed because of His message.
• John 4:42 They said to the woman, “We now believe not only because of your words; we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man truly is the Savior of the world.”
• John 5:16 Now because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jews began to persecute Him.
• John 5:18 Because of this, the Jews tried all the harder to kill Him. Not only was He breaking the Sabbath, but He was even calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.
• John 6:57 Just as the living Father sent Me and I live because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on Me will live because of Me.
• John 6:65 Then Jesus said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to Me unless the Father has granted it to him.”
• John 7:13 Yet no one would speak publicly about Him for fear of the Jews.
• John 7:22 But because Moses gave you circumcision, you circumcise a boy on the Sabbath (not that it is from Moses, but from the patriarchs.)
• John 7:43 So there was division in the crowd because of Jesus.
• John 7:45 Then the officers returned to the chief priests and Pharisees, who asked them, “Why didn’t you bring Him in?”
• John 8:43 Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you are unable to accept My message.
• John 8:46 Which of you can prove Me guilty of sin? If I speak the truth, why do you not believe Me?
• John 8:47 Whoever belongs to God hears the words of God. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God.”
• John 8:59 At this, they picked up stones to throw at Him. But Jesus was hidden and went out of the temple area.
• John 9:23 That was why his parents said, “He is old enough. Ask him.”
• John 10:1 “Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever does not enter the sheepfold by the gate, but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a robber.
• John 10:2 But the one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep.
• John 10:9 I am the gate. If anyone enters through Me, he will be saved. He will come in and go out and find pasture.
• John 10:17 The reason the Father loves Me is that I lay down My life in order to take it up again.
• John 10:19 Again there was division among the Jews because of Jesus’ message.
• John 10:32 But Jesus responded, “I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these do you stone Me?”
• John 11:4 When Jesus heard this, He said, “This sickness will not end in death. No, it is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”
• John 11:15 and for your sake I am glad I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.”
• John 11:42 I knew that You always hear Me, but I say this for the benefit of the people standing here, so they may believe that You sent Me.”
• John 12:5 “Why wasn’t this perfume sold for three hundred denarii and the money given to the poor?”
• John 12:9 Meanwhile a large crowd of Jews learned that Jesus was there. And they came not only because of Him, but also to see Lazarus, whom He had raised from the dead.
• John 12:11 for on account of him many of the Jews were deserting them and believing in Jesus.
• John 12:18 That is also why the crowd went out to meet Him, because they heard that He had performed this sign.
• John 12:27 Now My soul is troubled, and what shall I say? ‘Father, save Me from this hour’? No, it is for this purpose that I have come to this hour.
• John 12:30 In response, Jesus said, “This voice was not for My benefit, but yours.
• John 12:39 For this reason they were unable to believe. For again, Isaiah says:
• John 12:42 Nevertheless, many of the leaders believed in Him. But because of the Pharisees they did not confess Him, for fear that they would be put out of the synagogue.
• John 13:11 For He knew who would betray Him. That is why He said, “Not all of you are clean.”
• John 13:37 “Lord,” said Peter, “why can’t I follow You now? I will lay down my life for You.”
• John 14:6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
• John 14:11 Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me—or at least believe on account of the works themselves.
• John 15:3 You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.
• John 15:19 If you were of the world, it would love you as its own. Instead, the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world.
• John 15:21 But they will treat you like this because of My name, since they do not know the One who sent Me.
• John 16:15 Everything that belongs to the Father is Mine. That is why I said that the Spirit will take from what is Mine and disclose it to you.
• John 16:21 A woman has pain in childbirth because her time has come; but when she brings forth her child, she forgets her anguish because of her joy that a child has been born into the world.