34 Bible Verses about surprises

Desolations are upon them, They go down to Sheol -- alive, For wickedness is in their dwelling, in their midst.

Do not wonder, my brethren, if the world doth hate you;

Beloved, think it not strange at the fiery suffering among you that is coming to try you, as if a strange thing were happening to you,

Why art Thou as one dumb? As a mighty one not able to save? And Thou art in our midst, O Jehovah, And Thy name over us is called, leave us not.

And he did not answer him, not even to one word, so that the governor did wonder greatly.

Meet him doth desolation -- he knoweth not, And his net that he hid catcheth him, For desolation he falleth into it.

Three things have been too wonderful for me, Yea, four that I have not known:

and ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day may catch you as a thief;

And He seeth that there is no man, And is astonished that there is no intercessor, And His own arm giveth salvation to Him, And His righteousness -- it sustained Him.

in which they think it strange -- your not running with them to the same excess of dissoluteness, speaking evil,

and he wondered because of their unbelief. And he was going round the villages, in a circle, teaching,

And Joshua cometh in unto them suddenly (all the night he hath gone up from Gilgal),

I wonder that ye are so quickly removed from Him who did call you in the grace of Christ to another good news;

and they were astonished at his teaching, because his word was with authority.

Jesus answered and said to them, 'One work I did, and ye all wonder,

And having heard these things Jesus wondered at him, and having turned to the multitude following him, he said, 'I say to you, not even in Israel so much faith did I find;'

and the Pharisee having seen, did wonder that he did not first baptize himself before the dinner.

And beholding the openness of Peter and John, and having perceived that they are men unlettered and plebeian, they were wondering -- they were taking knowledge also of them that with Jesus they had been --

And Pilate wondered if he were already dead, and having called near the centurion, did question him if he were long dead,

no great thing, then, if also his ministrants do transform themselves as ministrants of righteousness -- whose end shall be according to their works.

'Wonder not at this, because there doth come an hour in which all those in the tombs shall hear his voice,

Much hast Thou done, Jehovah my God; Thy wonders and Thy thoughts toward us, There is none to arrange unto Thee, I declare and speak: They have been more than to be numbered.

and the Jews were wondering, saying, 'How hath this one known letters -- not having learned?'

And upon this came his disciples, and were wondering that with a woman he was speaking, no one, however, said, 'What seekest thou?' or 'Why speakest thou with her?'

if the world doth hate you, ye know that it hath hated me before you;

which of the two did the will of the father?' They say to him, 'The first.' Jesus saith to them, 'Verily I say to you, that the tax-gatherers and the harlots do go before you into the reign of God,

If oppression of the poor, and violent taking away of judgment and righteousness thou seest in a province, do not marvel at the matter, for a higher than the high is observing, and high ones are over them.

and astonishment took all, and they were glorifying God, and were filled with fear, saying -- 'We saw strange things to-day.'

And at the time they have begun with singing and praise, Jehovah hath put ambushments against the sons of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, who are coming in to Judah, and they are smitten,

Boast not thyself of to-morrow, For thou knowest not what a day bringeth forth.

and Peter having seen, answered unto the people, 'Men, Israelites! why wonder ye at this? or on us why look ye so earnestly, as if by our own power or piety we have made him to walk?

lo, I do come as a thief; happy is he who is watching, and keeping his garments, that he may not walk naked, and they may see his unseemliness,' --

For even man knoweth not his time; as fish that are taken hold of by an evil net, and as birds that are taken hold of by a snare, like these are the sons of man snared at an evil time, when it falleth upon them suddenly.

they were knowing him also that this it was who for a kindness was sitting at the Beautiful gate of the temple, and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what hath happened to him.