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God’s Chosen Servant
Aware of this, Jesus withdrew from that place. A large crowd followed him, and he healed all who were ill.
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“Here is my servant whom I have chosen, the one I love, in whom I delight; I will put my Spirit on him, and he will proclaim justice to the nations.
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“For many are invited, but few are chosen.”
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Now it was the governor’s custom at the festival to release a prisoner chosen by the crowd.
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“If the Lord had not cut short those days, no one would survive. But for the sake of the elect, whom he has chosen, he has shortened them.
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he was chosen by lot, according to the custom of the priesthood, to go into the temple of the Lord and burn incense.
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A voice came from the cloud, saying, “This is my Son, whom I have chosen; listen to him.”
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but few things are needed—or indeed only one. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her.”
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And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off?
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The people stood watching, and the rulers even sneered at him. They said, “He saved others; let him save himself if he is God’s Messiah, the Chosen One.”
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I have seen and I testify that this is God’s Chosen One.”
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Then Jesus replied, “Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil!”
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Jesus Predicts His Betrayal
“I am not referring to all of you; I know those I have chosen. But this is to fulfill this passage of Scripture: ‘He who shared my bread has turned against me.’
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If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.
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until the day he was taken up to heaven, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles he had chosen.
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Matthias Chosen to Replace Judas
Then the apostles returned to Jerusalem from the hill called the Mount of Olives, a Sabbath day’s walk from the city.
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Then they prayed, “Lord, you know everyone’s heart. Show us which of these two you have chosen
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But the Lord said to Ananias, “Go! This man is my chosen instrument to proclaim my name to the Gentiles and their kings and to the people of Israel.
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He was not seen by all the people, but by witnesses whom God had already chosen—by us who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.
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“Then he said: ‘The God of our ancestors has chosen you to know his will and to see the Righteous One and to hear words from his mouth.
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Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies.
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So too, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace.
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Greet Rufus, chosen in the Lord, and his mother, who has been a mother to me, too.
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What is more, he was chosen by the churches to accompany us as we carry the offering, which we administer in order to honor the Lord himself and to show our eagerness to help.
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In him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will,
