Farther

…and I declared: ‘You may come this far, but no farther; here your proud waves must stop’?

But now, behold, I am freeing you today from the chains that were on your wrists. If it pleases you to come with me to Babylon, then come, and I will take care of you. But if it seems wrong to you to come with me to Babylon, go no farther. Look, the whole land is before you. Wherever it seems good and right to you, go there.”

But the more I called Israel, the farther they departed from Me. They sacrificed to the Baals and burned incense to carved images.

Going a little farther, He fell facedown and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me. Yet not as I will, but as You will.”

Going on a little farther, He saw James son of Zebedee and his brother John. They were in a boat, mending their nets.

Going a little farther, He fell to the ground and prayed that, if it were possible, the hour would pass from Him.

As they approached the village where they were headed, He seemed to be going farther.

They took soundings and found that the water was twenty fathoms deep. Going a little farther, they took another set of soundings that read fifteen fathoms.