'According' in the Bible

With many other parables like these, Jesus kept speaking his message to them according to their ability to understand.

Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands?

Getting up, He *went from there to the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan; crowds *gathered around Him again, and, according to His custom, He once more began to teach them.

And the scribe said to him, Right, teacher; thou hast spoken according to the truth. For he is one, and there is none other besides him;