'Anointed' in the Bible

Many demons they expelled, and many invalids they anointed with oil and cured.

For a Saviour who is the Anointed Lord is born to you to-day, in the town of David.

To him it had been revealed by the Holy Spirit that he should not see death until he had seen the Lord's Anointed One.

And while the people were in suspense and all were debating in their minds whether John might possibly be the Anointed One,

"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because He has anointed me to proclaim Good News to the poor; He has sent me to announce release to the prisoners of war and recovery of sight to the blind: to send away free those whom tyranny has crushed,

"But you," He asked, "who do you say that I am?" "God's Anointed One," replied Peter.

"We have found this man," they said, "an agitator among our nation, forbidding the payment of tribute to Caesar, and claiming to be himself an anointed king."

and the people stood looking on. The Rulers, too, repeatedly uttered their bitter taunts. "This fellow," they said, "saved others: let him save himself, if he is God's Anointed, the Chosen One."

He first found his own brother Simon, and said to him, "We have found the Messiah!" --that is to say, the Anointed One.

be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that through the name of Jesus the Anointed, the Nazarene, whom *you* crucified, but whom *God* has raised from among the dead-- through that name this man stands here before you in perfect health.

The kings of the earth came near, and the rulers assembled together against the Lord and against His Anointed.'"

"They did indeed assemble in this city in hostility to Thy holy Servant Jesus whom Thou hadst anointed--Herod and Pontius Pilate with the Gentiles and also the tribes of Israel--

It tells how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, so that He went about everywhere doing acts of kindness, and curing all who were being continually oppressed by the Devil--for God was with Jesus.

But He who is making us as well as you stedfast through union with the Anointed One, and has anointed us, is God,

Thou hast loved righteousness and hated lawlessness; therefore God, Thy God, has anointed Thee with the oil of gladness beyond Thy companions."