ποιέω poiéō

Meaning

to make or do (in a very wide application, more or less direct)

In the King James Version: abide, + agree, appoint, X avenge, + band together, be, bear, + bewray, bring (forth), cast out, cause, commit, + content, continue, deal, + without any delay, (would) do(-ing), execute, exercise, fulfil, gain, give, have, hold, X journeying, keep, + lay wait, + lighten the ship, make, X mean, + none of these things move me, observe, ordain, perform, provide, + have purged, purpose, put, + raising up, X secure, shew, X shoot out, spend, take, tarry, + transgress the law, work, yield

Derivation: apparently a prolonged form of an obsolete primary;

Where it is used

• John 7:31 Many in the crowd, however, believed in Him and said, “When the Christ comes, will He perform more signs than this man?”
• John 7:51 “Does our law convict a man without first hearing from him to determine what he has done?”
• John 8:28 So Jesus said, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and that I do nothing on My own, but speak exactly what the Father has taught Me.
• John 8:29 He who sent Me is with Me. He has not left Me alone, because I always do what pleases Him.”
• John 8:34 Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin.
• John 8:38 I speak of what I have seen in the presence of the Father, and you do what you have heard from your father.”
• John 8:39 “Abraham is our father,” they replied. “If you were children of Abraham,” said Jesus, “you would do the works of Abraham.
• John 8:40 But now you are trying to kill Me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham never did such a thing.
• John 8:41 You are doing the works of your father.” “We are not illegitimate children,” they declared. “Our only Father is God Himself.”
• John 8:44 You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out his desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, refusing to uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, because he is a liar and the father of lies.
• John 8:53 Are You greater than our father Abraham? He died, as did the prophets. Who do You claim to be?”
• John 9:6 When Jesus had said this, He spit on the ground, made some mud, and applied it to the man’s eyes.
• John 9:11 He answered, “The man they call Jesus made some mud and anointed my eyes, and He told me to go to Siloam and wash. So I went and washed and received my sight.”
• John 9:14 Now the day on which Jesus had made the mud and opened his eyes was a Sabbath.
• John 9:16 Because of this, some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, for He does not keep the Sabbath.” But others said, “How can a sinful man perform such signs?” And there was division among them.
• John 9:26 “What did He do to you?” they asked. “How did He open your eyes?”
• John 9:31 We know that God does not listen to sinners, but He does listen to the one who worships Him and does His will.
• John 9:33 If this man were not from God, He could do no such thing.”
• John 10:25 “I already told you,” Jesus replied, “but you did not believe. The works I do in My Father’s name testify on My behalf.
• John 10:33 “We are not stoning You for any good work,” said the Jews, “but for blasphemy, because You, who are a man, make Yourself out to be God.”
• John 10:37 If I am not doing the works of My Father, then do not believe Me.
• John 10:38 But if I am doing them, even though you do not believe Me, believe the works themselves, so that you may know and understand that the Father is in Me, and I am in the Father.”
• John 10:41 Many came to Him and said, “Although John never performed a sign, everything he said about this man was true.”
• John 11:37 But some of them asked, “Could not this man who opened the eyes of the blind also have kept Lazarus from dying?”
• John 11:45 Therefore many of the Jews who had come to Mary, and had seen what Jesus did, believed in Him.
• John 11:46 But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.
• John 11:47 Then the chief priests and Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin and said, “What are we to do? This man is performing many signs.
• John 12:2 So they hosted a dinner for Jesus there. Martha served, and Lazarus was among those reclining at the table with Him.
• John 12:16 At first His disciples did not understand these things, but after Jesus was glorified they remembered what had been done to Him, and they realized that these very things had also been written about Him.
• John 12:18 That is also why the crowd went out to meet Him, because they heard that He had performed this sign.
• John 12:37 Although Jesus had performed so many signs in their presence, they still did not believe in Him.
• John 13:7 Jesus replied, “You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand.”
• John 13:12 When Jesus had washed their feet and put on His outer garments, He reclined with them again and asked, “Do you know what I have done for you?
• John 13:15 I have set you an example so that you should do as I have done for you.
• John 13:17 If you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.
• John 13:27 And when Judas had taken the morsel, Satan entered into him. Then Jesus said to Judas, “What you are about to do, do quickly.”
• John 14:10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me? The words I say to you, I do not speak on My own. Instead, it is the Father dwelling in Me, performing His works.
• John 14:12 Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever believes in Me will also do the works that I am doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.
• John 14:13 And I will do whatever you ask in My name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
• John 14:14 If you ask Me for anything in My name, I will do it.
• John 14:23 Jesus replied, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word. My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.
• John 14:31 But I do exactly what the Father has commanded Me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Get up! Let us go on from here.
• John 15:5 I am the vine and you are the branches. The one who remains in Me, and I in him, will bear much fruit. For apart from Me you can do nothing.
• John 15:14 You are My friends if you do what I command you.
• John 15:15 No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything I have learned from My Father I have made known to you.
• 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 15:24 If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have seen and hated both Me and My Father.
• John 16:2 They will put you out of the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God.
• John 16:3 They will do these things because they have not known the Father or Me.
• John 17:4 I have glorified You on earth by accomplishing the work You gave Me to do.
• John 18:18 Because it was cold, the servants and officers were standing around a charcoal fire they had made to keep warm. And Peter was also standing with them, warming himself.
• John 18:30 “If He were not a criminal,” they replied, “we would not have handed Him over to you.”
• John 18:35 “Am I a Jew?” Pilate replied. “Your own people and chief priests handed You over to me. What have You done?”
• John 19:7 “We have a law,” answered the Jews, “and according to that law He must die, because He declared Himself to be the Son of God.”
• John 19:12 From then on, Pilate tried to release Him, but the Jews kept shouting, “If you release this man, you are no friend of Caesar. Anyone who declares himself a king is defying Caesar.”
• John 19:23 When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they divided His garments into four parts, one for each soldier, with the tunic remaining. It was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom.
• John 19:24 So they said to one another, “Let us not tear it. Instead, let us cast lots to see who will get it.” This was to fulfill the Scripture: “They divided My garments among them, and cast lots for My clothing.” So that is what the soldiers did.
• John 20:30 Jesus performed many other signs in the presence of His disciples, which are not written in this book.
• John 21:25 There are many more things that Jesus did. If all of them were written down, I suppose that not even the world itself would have space for the books that would be written.
• Acts 1:1 In my first book, O Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus began to do and to teach,