5 Bible Verses about People Renaming People

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Acts 4:36

Thus Joseph, who was surnamed Barnabas or (as it may be translated) 'Son of Encouragement' by the apostles, a Levite of Cypriote birth,

John 1:42

He took him to Jesus; Jesus gazed at him and said, "You are Simon, the son of John? Your name is to be Cephas" (meaning 'Peter' or 'rock').

Mark 3:16

there was Simon, whom he surnamed Peter,

Mark 3:17

James the son of Zebedaeus and John the brother of James (he surnamed them Boanerges, or "Sons of thunder"),

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