'Called' in the Bible

Andrew brought Simon to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, "You are Simon, the son of John. You will be called Cephas" (which is translated Peter).

Nathanael asked him, "How do you know me?" Jesus replied, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you."

When the head steward tasted the water that had been turned to wine, not knowing where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), he called the bridegroom

Now he came to a Samaritan town called Sychar, near the plot of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.

The woman said to him, "I know that Messiah is coming" (the one called Christ); "whenever he comes, he will tell us everything."

Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool called Bethzatha in Aramaic, which has five covered walkways.

After this Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee (also called the Sea of Tiberias).

He replied, "The man called Jesus made mud, smeared it on my eyes and told me, 'Go to Siloam and wash.' So I went and washed, and was able to see."

If those people to whom the word of God came were called 'gods' (and the scripture cannot be broken),

So Thomas (called Didymus) said to his fellow disciples, "Let us go too, so that we may die with him."

And when she had said this, Martha went and called her sister Mary, saying privately, "The Teacher is here and is asking for you."

So the chief priests and the Pharisees called the council together and said, "What are we doing? For this man is performing many miraculous signs.

Thus Jesus no longer went around publicly among the Judeans, but went away from there to the region near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim, and stayed there with his disciples.

So the crowd who had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead were continuing to testify about it.

I no longer call you slaves, because the slave does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because I have revealed to you everything I heard from my Father.

When Pilate heard these words he brought Jesus outside and sat down on the judgment seat in the place called "The Stone Pavement" (Gabbatha in Aramaic).

and carrying his own cross he went out to the place called "The Place of the Skull" (called in Aramaic Golgotha).

Now Thomas (called Didymus), one of the twelve, was not with them when Jesus came.

Simon Peter, Thomas (called Didymus), Nathanael (who was from Cana in Galilee), the sons of Zebedee, and two other disciples of his were together.