'Certain' in the Bible
Then a scribe came and said to Him, “Teacher, I will follow You wherever You go.”
“For this reason the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished to settle accounts with his slaves.
And He said, “Go into the city to a certain man, and say to him, ‘The Teacher says, “My time is near; I am to keep the Passover at your house with My disciples.”’”
Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard, and a servant-girl came to him and said, “You too were with Jesus the Galilean.”
But one of those who stood by drew his sword, and struck the slave of the high priest and cut off his ear.
A young man was following Him, wearing nothing but a linen sheet over his naked body; and they *seized him.
In the days of Herod, king of Judea, there was a priest named Zacharias, of the division of Abijah; and he had a wife from the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.
Zacharias said to the angel, “How will I know this for certain? For I am an old man and my wife is advanced in years.”
Now it happened that He was passing through some grainfields on a Sabbath; and His disciples were picking the heads of grain, rubbing them in their hands, and eating the grain.
And a centurion’s slave, who was highly regarded by him, was sick and about to die.
“A moneylender had two debtors: one owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty.
And when He came out onto the land, He was met by a man from the city who was possessed with demons; and who had not put on any clothing for a long time, and was not living in a house, but in the tombs.
And a lawyer stood up and put Him to the test, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”
Jesus replied and said, “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among robbers, and they stripped him and beat him, and went away leaving him half dead.
And by chance a priest was going down on that road, and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.
But a Samaritan, who was on a journey, came upon him; and when he saw him, he felt compassion,
Now as they were traveling along, He entered a village; and a woman named Martha welcomed Him into her home.
It happened that while Jesus was praying in a certain place, after He had finished, one of His disciples said to Him, “Lord, teach us to pray just as John also taught his disciples.”
And He told them a parable, saying, “The land of a rich man was very productive.
And He began telling this parable: “A man had a fig tree which had been planted in his vineyard; and he came looking for fruit on it and did not find any.
And there in front of Him was a man suffering from dropsy.
But He said to him, “A man was giving a big dinner, and he invited many;
Now He was also saying to the disciples, “There was a rich man who had a manager, and this manager was reported to him as squandering his possessions.
“Now there was a rich man, and he habitually dressed in purple and fine linen, joyously living in splendor every day.
And a poor man named Lazarus was laid at his gate, covered with sores,
As He entered a village, ten leprous men who stood at a distance met Him;
saying, “In a certain city there was a judge who did not fear God and did not respect man.
And He also told this parable to some people who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and viewed others with contempt:
A ruler questioned Him, saying, “Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”
As Jesus was approaching Jericho, a blind man was sitting by the road begging.
So He said, “A nobleman went to a distant country to receive a kingdom for himself, and then return.
And He saw a poor widow putting in two small copper coins.
And one of them struck the slave of the high priest and cut off his right ear.
And a servant-girl, seeing him as he sat in the firelight and looking intently at him, said, “This man was with Him too.”
(He was one who had been thrown into prison for an insurrection made in the city, and for murder.)
Therefore He came again to Cana of Galilee where He had made the water wine. And there was a royal official whose son was sick at Capernaum.
for an angel of the Lord went down at certain seasons into the pool and stirred up the water; whoever then first, after the stirring up of the water, stepped in was made well from whatever disease with which he was afflicted.]
Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.
But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all,
Now there were some Greeks among those who were going up to worship at the feast;
Therefore let all the house of Israel know for certain that God has made Him both Lord and Christ—this Jesus whom you crucified.”
And a man who had been lame from his mother’s womb was being carried along, whom they used to set down every day at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, in order to beg alms of those who were entering the temple.
But a man named Ananias, with his wife Sapphira, sold a piece of property,
But a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the Law, respected by all the people, stood up in the Council and gave orders to put the men outside for a short time.
Now there was a man named Simon, who formerly was practicing magic in the city and astonishing the people of Samaria, claiming to be someone great;
Now there was a disciple at Damascus named Ananias; and the Lord said to him in a vision, “Ananias.” And he said, “Here I am, Lord.”
There he found a man named Aeneas, who had been bedridden eight years, for he was paralyzed.
Now in Joppa there was a disciple named Tabitha (which translated in Greek is called Dorcas); this woman was abounding with deeds of kindness and charity which she continually did.
And Peter stayed many days in Joppa with a tanner named Simon.
Now there was a man at Caesarea named Cornelius, a centurion of what was called the Italian cohort,
he is staying with a tanner named Simon, whose house is by the sea.”
and he *saw the sky opened up, and an object like a great sheet coming down, lowered by four corners to the ground,
“I was in the city of Joppa praying; and in a trance I saw a vision, an object coming down like a great sheet lowered by four corners from the sky; and it came right down to me,
When they had gone through the whole island as far as Paphos, they found a magician, a Jewish false prophet whose name was Bar-Jesus,
At Lystra a man was sitting who had no strength in his feet, lame from his mother’s womb, who had never walked.
And when Paul and Barnabas had great dissension and debate with them, the brethren determined that Paul and Barnabas and some others of them should go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders concerning this issue.
But some of the sect of the Pharisees who had believed stood up, saying, “It is necessary to circumcise them and to direct them to observe the Law of Moses.”
Paul came also to Derbe and to Lystra. And a disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer, but his father was a Greek,
A vision appeared to Paul in the night: a man of Macedonia was standing and appealing to him, and saying, “Come over to Macedonia and help us.”
A woman named Lydia, from the city of Thyatira, a seller of purple fabrics, a worshiper of God, was listening; and the Lord opened her heart to respond to the things spoken by Paul.
It happened that as we were going to the place of prayer, a slave-girl having a spirit of divination met us, who was bringing her masters much profit by fortune-telling.
And he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, having recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to leave Rome. He came to them,
Then he left there and went to the house of a man named Titius Justus, a worshiper of God, whose house was next to the synagogue.
Now a Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by birth, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus; and he was mighty in the Scriptures.
For a man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver shrines of Artemis, was bringing no little business to the craftsmen;
And there was a young man named Eutychus sitting on the window sill, sinking into a deep sleep; and as Paul kept on talking, he was overcome by sleep and fell down from the third floor and was picked up dead.
As we were staying there for some days, a prophet named Agabus came down from Judea.
“A certain Ananias, a man who was devout by the standard of the Law, and well spoken of by all the Jews who lived there,
But on the next day, wishing to know for certain why he had been accused by the Jews, he released him and ordered the chief priests and all the Council to assemble, and brought Paul down and set him before them.
After five days the high priest Ananias came down with some elders, with an attorney named Tertullus, and they brought charges to the governor against Paul.
in which they found me occupied in the temple, having been purified, without any crowd or uproar. But there were some Jews from Asia—
While they were spending many days there, Festus laid Paul’s case before the king, saying, “There is a man who was left as a prisoner by Felix;
but they simply had some points of disagreement with him about their own religion and about a dead man, Jesus, whom Paul asserted to be alive.
and with difficulty sailing past it we came to a place called Fair Havens, near which was the city of Lasea.
When day came, they could not recognize the land; but they did observe a bay with a beach, and they resolved to drive the ship onto it if they could.
For this reason it is by faith, in order that it may be in accordance with grace, so that the promise will be guaranteed to all the descendants, not only to those who are of the Law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,
For prior to the coming of certain men from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles; but when they came, he began to withdraw and hold himself aloof, fearing the party of the circumcision.
As I urged you upon my departure for Macedonia, remain on at Ephesus so that you may instruct certain men not to teach strange doctrines,
He again fixes a certain day, “Today,” saying through David after so long a time just as has been said before,“Today if you hear His voice,Do not harden your hearts.”
but a terrifying expectation of judgment and the fury of a fire which will consume the adversaries.
Therefore, brethren, be all the more diligent to make certain about His calling and choosing you; for as long as you practice these things, you will never stumble;
For certain persons have crept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand marked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.