34 Bible Verses about surprises
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Let death come hastily upon them, and let them go down quick into hell; for wickedness is among them in their dwellings.
Dearly beloved, be not troubled in this heat, which now is come among you to try you, as though some strange thing had happened unto you:
Why wilt thou make thyself a coward, and as it were a giant that yet may not help? For thou art ours, O LORD, and we bear thy name; therefore forsake us not."
And he answered him to never a word: insomuch that the deputy marveled greatly.
Let a sudden destruction come upon him unawares, and his net that he hath laid privily catch himself, that he may fall into his own mischief.
There be three things too high for me, and as for the fourth, it passeth my knowledge.
But ye brethren are not in darkness, that that day should come on you as it were a thief.
He saw also, that there was no man which had pity thereof, or was grieved at it. And he held him by his own power, and cleaved to his own righteousness.
And it seemeth to them a strange thing that ye run not also with them unto the same excess of riot, and therefore speak they evil of you,
And he marveled at their unbelief. And he went about by the towns that lay on every side, teaching.
I marvel that ye are so soon turned from him that called you in the grace of Christ, unto another gospel:
And they were astonished at his doctrine: for his preaching was with power.
When Jesus heard this, he marveled at him, and turned him about and said to the people that followed him, "I say unto you, I have not found so great faith: No, not in Israel, certainly."
When the Pharisee saw that, he marveled that he had not first washed before dinner.
When they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and understood that they were unlearned men and lay people, they marveled: and they knew them, that they were with Jesus.
And Pilate marveled that he was already dead, and called unto him the centurion, and asked of him whether he had been any while dead.
Therefore it is no great thing, though his ministers fashion themselves as though they were the ministers of righteousness: whose end shall be according to their deeds.
Marvel not at this: that the hour shall come, in which all that are in the graves, shall hear his voice,
O LORD my God, great are the wondrous works which thou hast done, like as be also thy thoughts, which are to us-ward; and yet there is no man that ordereth them unto thee. If I should declare them, and speak of them, they should be more than I am able to express.
And the Jews marveled, saying, "How knoweth he the scriptures, seeing that he never learned?"
And even at that point, came his disciples, and marveled that he talked with the woman. Yet no man said unto him, "What meanest thou," or "Why talkest thou with her?"
Whether of these twain did the will of the father?" And they said unto him, "The first." Jesus said unto them, "Verily I say unto you, that the publicans and the harlots shall come into the kingdom of God before you.
If thou seest the poor to be oppressed and wrongfully dealt withal, so that equity and the right of the law is wrested in the land: marvel not thou at such judgment, for one great man keepeth touch with another, and the mighty help themselves together.
And they were all amazed, and they lauded God, and were filled with fear, saying, "We have seen strange things today."
And what time they began to laud and praise, then the LORD set layers await against the children of Ammon and Moab and mount Seir,
Make not thy boast of tomorrow, for thou knowest not what may happen today.
When Peter saw that, he answered unto the people, "Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this? Or why look ye so steadfastly on us, as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man go?
"Behold I come as a thief. Happy is he that watcheth and keepeth his garments; Lest he be found naked, and men see his filthiness."
For man knoweth not his time, but like as the fish are taken with the angle and as the birds are caught with the snare: Even so are men taken in the perilous time, when it cometh suddenly upon them.
And they knew him, that it was he which sat and begged at the Beautiful gate of the temple. And they wondered, and were sore astonished at that which had happened unto him.
