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'Certain' in the Bible

Therefore the Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who wanted to reconcile accounts with his servants.

Verse ConceptsRich, TheServanthood, In SocietyLikeningLikening ThingsParables Of The KingdomSettling Accountsaccounting

Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, kneeling and asking a certain thing of him.

Verse ConceptsKneelingBowing Before MessiahMothersMothers Love For Her ChildrenMothers And SonsMotherhood

He said, "Go into the city to a certain person, and tell him, 'The Teacher says, "My time is at hand. I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples."'"

Verse ConceptsForeknowledgeGod, Purpose OfGuestsEntering CitiesNear The Time PersonallyOther References To The DisciplesTimes Of The ChristGuest Rooms

But a certain one of those who stood by drew his sword, and struck the servant of the high priest, and cut off his ear.

Verse ConceptsOpposition, To Sin And EvilUnwise ZealAnonymityThings StrippedSevering Body Parts

A certain young man followed him, having a linen cloth thrown around himself, over his naked body. The young men grabbed him,

Verse ConceptsFollowing Jesus ChristLinenIdentity In Christteenager

There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the priestly division of Abijah. He had a wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.

Verse ConceptsPriests, Types Of In Nt TimesServanthood, And Worship Of GodSubdivisionsNamed Gentile RulersTimes Of People

A certain centurion's servant, who was dear to him, was sick and at the point of death.

Verse ConceptsdiseasesMastersEmployers, Good ExamplesNearness Of DeathDeath Looms NearPrecious

"A certain lender had two debtors. The one owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty.

Verse ConceptsTwo Needy MenLending And BorrowingDebt

and certain women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary who was called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out;

Verse ConceptsSatanic InvasionSeven SpiritsThose Jesus HealedDemonsCasting Out Demons

When Jesus stepped ashore, a certain man out of the city who had demons for a long time met him. He wore no clothes, and didn't live in a house, but in the tombs.

Verse ConceptsLonelinessSpiritsNaked In PovertyMeeting PeopleAction For A Long TimeThose DemonisedDemons

As they went on the way, a certain man said to him, "I want to follow you wherever you go, Lord."

Verse ConceptsExaggerationsRoadsWhereverfollowing

Behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested him, saying, "Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?"

Verse ConceptsLawyersInheritance, SpiritualSeeking LifeTesting ChristDoing God's WorksTests

Jesus answered, "A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who both stripped him and beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead.

Verse ConceptsInjuryMurderStealingSuffering, Causes OfTravelViolencePeople Stripping PeopleAfflicted To DeathActual Thievesthieves

By chance a certain priest was going down that way. When he saw him, he passed by on the other side.

Verse ConceptsPassing ByHeartlessnessluckpriestsstories

But a certain Samaritan, as he traveled, came where he was. When he saw him, he was moved with compassion,

Verse ConceptsOpportunities, In LifeOutsidersTravelPeople Showing Mercy

It happened as they went on their way, he entered into a certain village, and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house.

Verse ConceptsAttitudes, to other peopleGuestsHospitality, Examples OfProperty, HousesHospitality Towards ChristWelcoming ChristReceiving Jesus As A Guestvacation

It happened, that when he finished praying in a certain place, one of his disciples said to him, "Lord, teach us to pray, just as John also taught his disciples."

Verse ConceptsHabitsJohn The BaptistTeachablenessChrist TeachingThe Disciples WordsDisciples Of John The BaptistEnd Of ActionsJesus PrayingPraying For OthersPrayingFinishing Strong

It came to pass, as he said these things, a certain woman out of the multitude lifted up her voice, and said to him, "Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts which nursed you!"

Verse ConceptsBreasts, Nursing MothersCrowdsWombbreasts

Now as he spoke, a certain Pharisee asked him to dine with him. He went in, and sat at the table.

Verse ConceptsInvitationsPharisees, Attitudes To Jesus ChristTablesReclining To EatWhile Still Speaking

He spoke a parable to them, saying, "The ground of a certain rich man brought forth abundantly.

Verse ConceptsRich, TheFertile LandWealthy PeopleFarminguncertainty

He spoke this parable. "A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it, and found none.

Verse ConceptsMetaphorical VineyardsSeeking For Concrete Things

Behold, a certain man who had dropsy was in front of him.

Verse ConceptsdiseasesDiseases, Kinds OfHealing Sickness

He said, "A certain man had two sons.

Verse ConceptsTwo Sons

He also said to his disciples, "There was a certain rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was wasting his possessions.

Verse ConceptsRich, TheThriftWasteChrist Speaking To DisciplesWealthy PeoplePropertyA Fool And His Money Shall PartMoney Managementpossessionsaccusationsaccounting

As he entered into a certain village, ten men who were lepers met him, who stood at a distance.

Verse ConceptsLeprosyHealingLonelinessQuarantiningHygieneCrying To JesusQuarantineTen PeopleStanding At A Distance

saying, "There was a judge in a certain city who didn't fear God, and didn't respect man.

Verse ConceptsIrreverenceBeing Seen By ManNo Fear Of GodRespectFearing GodPersistencefearless

A certain ruler asked him, saying, "Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?"

Verse Conceptseternal life, nature ofeagernessRulersTeachersTeachablenessSeeking LifeGood PeopleDoing God's Works

It happened, as he came near Jericho, a certain blind man sat by the road, begging.

Verse ConceptsBeggingBeggarsRoadsUsing RoadsBlindness

He said therefore, "A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.

Verse ConceptsHeirsInheritance, SpiritualNoblesRich, TheIndividuals going homeFar From HereGifts And Talents

He saw a certain poor widow casting in two small brass coins.

Verse ConceptsTwo Other ThingsActual Widows

A certain one of them struck the servant of the high priest, and cut off his right ear.

Verse ConceptsSevering Body Parts

A certain servant girl saw him as he sat in the light, and looking intently at him, said, "This man also was with him."

Verse ConceptsSparklingLooking Intently At PeopleChrist With People On Earth

one who was thrown into prison for a certain revolt in the city, and for murder.

Verse ConceptsCriminalsImprisonmentsPrisonersJudged As Murderers

Also, certain women of our company amazed us, having arrived early at the tomb;

Verse ConceptsAmazingJesus Tomb

Jesus came therefore again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water into wine. There was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum.

Verse ConceptsParents Duty To ChildrenProviding WineDrinking WaterSick Individuals

for an angel went down at certain times into the pool, and stirred up the water. Whoever stepped in first after the stirring of the water was made whole of whatever disease he had.

Verse ConceptsBeing FirstDisease

Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister, Martha.

Verse ConceptsdiseasesSick Individualsoverworkinglazarus

But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, "You know nothing at all,

Verse ConceptsThose Who Were IgnorantRivers

Now there were certain Greeks among those that went up to worship at the feast.

Verse ConceptsGreeksJudaismProselytesflexibility

A certain man who was lame from his mother's womb was being carried, whom they laid daily at the door of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask gifts for the needy of those who entered into the temple.

Verse ConceptsCripplesGatesLamenessLonelinessWeakness, PhysicalBeauty, In ArtefactsHelplessnessChronic AilmentsSitting In The GatewayNamed GatesFrom The WombOnce A DayPeople Carrying Live PeopleInner BeautyThe Beauty Of Nature

But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira, his wife, sold a possession,

Verse ConceptsProperty

and kept back part of the price, his wife also being aware of it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles' feet.

Verse ConceptsBad ConsciencesCorrupted ConsciencesCheatingKnowing FactsPutting Things DownThe Apostles In ActionPeople Giving Other Thingscouples

But there was a certain man, Simon by name, who used to practice sorcery in the city, and amazed the people of Samaria, making himself out to be some great one,

Verse ConceptsClaimsPride, Examples OfSelf ConfidenceSuperiorityBoastersGreat IndividualsSorcerymagic

Now there was a certain disciple at Damascus named Ananias. The Lord said to him in a vision, "Ananias!" He said, "Behold, it's me, Lord."

Verse ConceptsecstasyGod, Revelation OfThose Who Saw VisionsThe Spirit SpeakingThis Is Medamascus

There he found a certain man named Aeneas, who had been bedridden for eight years, because he was paralyzed.

Verse ConceptsParalyticsEight Or Nine YearsBeds

Now there was a certain man in Caesarea, Cornelius by name, a centurion of what was called the Italian Regiment,

Verse ConceptsMilitaryArmies, RomanVolunteering

He saw heaven opened and a certain container descending to him, like a great sheet let down by four corners on the earth,

Verse ConceptsFour CornersThe Act Of OpeningOpening HeavenFour SidesPutting Animals DownHeavenly Visionporksailing

"I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision: a certain container descending, like it was a great sheet let down from heaven by four corners. It came as far as me.

Verse ConceptsecstasyFour CornersLowering PeopleThose Who Saw VisionsFour SidesI PrayPutting Animals Down

When they had gone through the island to Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Bar Jesus,

Verse ConceptsExamples Of FaithDivination, Practiced ByTravelFalse Teachers, Examples OfFalse Apostles, Prophets And TeachersSorcery

At Lystra a certain man sat, impotent in his feet, a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked.

Verse ConceptsCripplesdisabilitiesLamenessThe Healed WalkingFrom The Womb

He came to Derbe and Lystra: and behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewess who believed; but his father was a Greek.

Verse ConceptsBelieversGrandmothers

A certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one who worshiped God, heard us; whose heart the Lord opened to listen to the things which were spoken by Paul.

Verse ConceptsHearingListeningColors, PurpleReceptivenessResponseProselytesThe Act Of OpeningOpening To OthersPurple ClothMissionariesevangelising

It happened, as we were going to prayer, that a certain girl having a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much gain by fortune telling.

Verse ConceptsMagical Arts, Practice Ofdemons, Kinds ofMastersMoney, Uses OfPredictionsDivinationFortunetellingNecromancyWhere To PraySorceryThe Futuremagicpsychics

When they didn't find them, they dragged Jason and certain brothers before the rulers of the city, crying, "These who have turned the world upside down have come here also,

Verse ConceptsTurning Upside DownPulling PeopleNot FindingTroubling Groups Of PeopleCauses of failure in

For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean."

Verse ConceptsMeaning

But certain men joined with him, and believed, among whom also was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.

Verse ConceptsConverts To ChristianityThose Who Believed In Christ

He found a certain Jew named Aquila, a man of Pontus by race, who had recently come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome. He came to them,

Verse Conceptsevangelism, motivation forempiresCaesarCommands, in NTPunishment, Legal Aspects OfRefugeesGood Wives ExamplesAquilaRoman EmperorsGroups Sent Away

He departed there, and went into the house of a certain man named Justus, one who worshiped God, whose house was next door to the synagogue.

Verse ConceptsProselytes

Now a certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by race, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus. He was mighty in the Scriptures.

Verse ConceptsAlexandria The CityEloquenceMissionaries, Call OfApollosMissionary ExamplesUse Of The ScripturesRace

It happened that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul, having passed through the upper country, came to Ephesus, and found certain disciples.

Verse ConceptsFindingRoadsflexibility

For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver shrines of Artemis, brought no little business to the craftsmen,

Verse ConceptsArts And Crafts, Types ofCraftsmenSculptureShrinesSilverSkill

Certain also of the Asiarchs, being his friends, sent to him and begged him not to venture into the theater.

Verse Conceptsrisk

A certain young man named Eutychus sat in the window, weighed down with deep sleep. As Paul spoke still longer, being weighed down by his sleep, he fell down from the third story, and was taken up dead.

Verse ConceptsDeath, Means OfSleep, PhysicalPeople Falling From A HeightThree Parts Of ConstructionsBad LuckteenagerFalling Backwards

As we stayed there some days, a certain prophet named Agabus came down from Judea.

Verse ConceptsNamed Prophets Of The Lord

After five days, the high priest, Ananias, came down with certain elders and an orator, one Tertullus. They informed the governor against Paul.

Verse ConceptsAttorneyGovernorsHigh Priest, In NtFour Or Five DaysPeople Accusing People

amid which certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, not with a mob, nor with turmoil.

Verse ConceptsTumultDisciples In The Temple

As he stayed there many days, Festus laid Paul's case before the king, saying, "There is a certain man left a prisoner by Felix;

but had certain questions against him about their own religion, and about one Jesus, who was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.

Verse ConceptsChrist's LifeThe Fact Of Christ's Deathconnection

Of whom I have no certain thing to write to my lord. Therefore I have brought him forth before you, and especially before you, King Agrippa, that, after examination, I may have something to write.

Verse ConceptsInvestigatingNot Writing

When it was determined that we should sail for Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners to a centurion named Julius, of the Augustan band.

Verse ConceptsCenturionRoman Emperorssailing

With difficulty sailing along it we came to a certain place called Fair Havens, near the city of Lasea.

Verse ConceptsHarborssailinghugs

But we must run aground on a certain island."

When it was day, they didn't recognize the land, but they noticed a certain bay with a beach, and they decided to try to drive the ship onto it.

Verse ConceptsSandSeashoresNot Knowing Where

For it has been the good pleasure of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor among the saints who are at Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsCollectionsMoney, Stewardship OfPoverty, Causes OfPoverty, Remedies ForRiches, Believers AttitudesGiving To The Poor

As I urged you when I was going into Macedonia, stay at Ephesus that you might command certain men not to teach a different doctrine,

Verse Conceptsevil, believers' responses toPaul, Life OfDiscipline Of The ChurchMisteaching

he again defines a certain day, today, saying through David so long a time afterward (just as has been said), "Today if you will hear his voice, don't harden your hearts."

Verse ConceptsFreedom, Of The WillOpportunities, And SalvationRepentance, Importance OfSeasons, Of LifeStubbornnessStiffnecked PeopleHearing God's VoiceAvoiding ObstinacyNowToday

but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries.

Verse ConceptsHell, As An ExperienceGuilty FearFire Of JudgementTerror Of GodJudgementexpectations

For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.

Verse ConceptsLewdnessAbuse, Of Spiritual ThingsLicentiousnessWarnings Against ApostasyPredestination, Of PersonsChrist Is LordThe Grace Of GodThey Committed ImmoralityFalse TeachersExamples Of Ungodly MenProblem PeopleSexual Immorality Brings PunishmentRelationships And DatingcondemnationvulnerabilityUnbelief Toward Christ

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