34 Bible Verses about surprises
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Let death come suddenly on them. Let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is in their dwelling, in the midst of them.
Beloved, don't be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you, to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you.
Why should you be like a scared man, as a mighty man who can't save? Yet you, Yahweh, are in the midst of us, and we are called by your name; don't leave us.
Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.
"There are three things which are too amazing for me, four which I don't understand:
But you, brothers, aren't in darkness, that the day should overtake you like a thief.
He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his own arm brought salvation to him; and his righteousness, it upheld him.
They think it is strange that you don't run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming:
Joshua therefore came on them suddenly. He went up from Gilgal all night.
I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different "good news";
and they were astonished at his teaching, for his word was with authority.
When Jesus heard these things, he marveled at him, and turned and said to the multitude who followed him, "I tell you, I have not found such great faith, no, not in Israel."
When the Pharisee saw it, he marveled that he had not first washed himself before dinner.
Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and had perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marveled. They recognized that they had been with Jesus.
Pilate marveled if he were already dead; and summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he had been dead long.
It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.
Don't marvel at this, for the hour comes, in which all that are in the tombs will hear his voice,
Many, Yahweh, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us. They can't be declared back to you. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.
The Jews therefore marveled, saying, "How does this man know letters, having never been educated?"
At this, his disciples came. They marveled that he was speaking with a woman; yet no one said, "What are you looking for?" or, "Why do you speak with her?"
Which of the two did the will of his father?" They said to him, "The first." Jesus said to them, "Most certainly I tell you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering into the Kingdom of God before you.
If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don't marvel at the matter: for one official is eyed by a higher one; and there are officials over them.
Amazement took hold on all, and they glorified God. They were filled with fear, saying, "We have seen strange things today."
When they began to sing and to praise, Yahweh set ambushers against the children of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah; and they were struck.
When Peter saw it, he responded to the people, "You men of Israel, why do you marvel at this man? Why do you fasten your eyes on us, as though by our own power or godliness we had made him walk?
"Behold, I come like a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his clothes, so that he doesn't walk naked, and they see his shame."
For man also doesn't know his time. As the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.
They recognized him, that it was he who used to sit begging for gifts for the needy at the Beautiful Gate of the temple. They were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.
