23 Bible Verses about surprises
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Dear friends, do not be surprised at finding that that scorching flame of persecution is raging among you to put you to the test--as though some surprising thing were accidentally happening to you.
But He made no reply to a single accusation, so that the Governor was greatly astonished.
But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that daylight should surprise you like a thief;
At this they are astonished--that you do not run into the same excess of profligacy as they do; and they speak abusively of you.
I marvel that you are so readily leaving Him who called you by the grace of Christ, and are adhering to a different Good News.
And they were greatly impressed by His teaching, because He spoke with the language of authority.
Jesus listened to the Captain's message and was astonished at him, and He turned and said to the crowd that followed Him, "I tell you that not even in Israel have I found faith like that."
Now the Pharisee saw to his surprise that He did not wash His hands before breakfasting.
As they looked on Peter and John so fearlessly outspoken--and also discovered that they were illiterate persons, untrained in the schools--they were surprised; and now they recognized them as having been with Jesus.
But Pilate could hardly believe that He was already dead. He called, however, for the Centurion and inquired whether He had been long dead;
It is therefore no great thing for his servants also to disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will be in accordance with their actions.
Wonder not at this. For a time is coming when all who are in the graves will hear His voice and will come forth--
The Jews were astonished. "How does this man know anything of books," they said, "although he has never been at any of the schools?"
Just then His disciples came, and were surprised to find Him talking with a woman. Yet not one of them asked Him, "What is your wish?" or "Why are you talking with her?"
If the world hates you, remember that it has first had me as the fixed object of its hatred.
Which of the two did as his father desired?" "The first," they said. "I solemnly tell you,' replied Jesus, "that the tax-gatherers and the notorious sinners are entering the Kingdom of God in front of you.
Amazement seized them all. "Glory to God!" was the abiding feeling. Yet fear flashed through their minds and they said, "We have seen strange things to-day."
Peter, seeing this, spoke to the people. "Israelites," he said, "why do you wonder at this man? Or why gaze at us, as though by any power or piety of our own we had enabled him to walk?
("I am coming like a thief. Blessed is the man who keeps awake and guards his raiment for fear he walk about ill-clad, and his uncomeliness become manifest.")
and recognizing him as the man who used to sit at the Beautiful Gate of the Temple asking for alms, they were filled with awe and amazement at what had happened to him.
