'Called' in the Bible

and he brought Simon to Jesus.When Jesus saw him, He said, “You are Simon, son of John. You will be called Cephas” (which means “Rock”).

“How do you know me?” Nathanael asked.“Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you,” Jesus answered.

When the chief servant tasted the water (after it had become wine), he did not know where it came from—though the servants who had drawn the water knew. He called the groom

so He came to a town of Samaria called Sychar near the property that Jacob had given his son Joseph.

The woman said to Him, “I know that Messiah is coming” (who is called Christ). “When He comes, He will explain everything to us.”

By the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem there is a pool, called Bethesda in Hebrew, which has five colonnades.

He answered, “The man called Jesus made mud, spread it on my eyes, and told me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ So when I went and washed I received my sight.”

If He called those whom the word of God came to ‘gods’—and the Scripture cannot be broken—

Then Thomas (called “Twin”) said to his fellow disciples, “Let’s go so that we may die with Him.”

Having said this, she went back and called her sister Mary, saying in private, “The Teacher is here and is calling for you.”

Therefore Jesus no longer walked openly among the Jews but departed from there to the countryside near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim. And He stayed there with the disciples.

Meanwhile, the crowd, which had been with Him when He called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead, continued to testify.

I do not call you slaves anymore, because a slave doesn’t know what his master is doing. I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything I have heard from My Father.

When Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus outside. He sat down on the judge’s bench in a place called the Stone Pavement (but in Hebrew Gabbatha).

Carrying His own cross, He went out to what is called Skull Place, which in Hebrew is called Golgotha.

But one of the Twelve, Thomas (called “Twin”), was not with them when Jesus came.

Simon Peter, Thomas (called “Twin”), Nathanael from Cana of Galilee, Zebedee’s sons, and two others of His disciples were together.

“Men,” Jesus called to them, “you don’t have any fish, do you?”“No,” they answered.