'Named' in the Bible

but did not know her intimately until she gave birth to a son. And he named Him Jesus.

As Jesus went on from there, He saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax office, and He said to him, “Follow Me!” So he got up and followed Him.

As they were going out, they found a Cyrenian man named Simon. They forced this man to carry His cross.

When it was evening, a rich man from Arimathea named Joseph came, who himself had also become a disciple of Jesus.

He also appointed 12—He also named them apostles—to be with Him, to send them out to preach,

One of the synagogue leaders, named Jairus, came, and when he saw Jesus, he fell at His feet

Then they came to a place named Gethsemane, and He told His disciples, “Sit here while I pray.”

There was one named Barabbas, who was in prison with rebels who had committed murder during the rebellion.

In the days of King Herod of Judea, there was a priest of Abijah’s division named Zechariah. His wife was from the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.

to a virgin engaged to a man named Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin’s name was Mary.

When the eight days were completed for His circumcision, He was named Jesus—the name given by the angel before He was conceived.

After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax office, and He said to him, “Follow Me!”

When daylight came, He summoned His disciples, and He chose 12 of them—He also named them apostles:

Simon, whom He also named Peter,and Andrew his brother;James and John;Philip and Bartholomew;

Just then, a man named Jairus came. He was a leader of the synagogue. He fell down at Jesus’ feet and pleaded with Him to come to his house,

While they were traveling, He entered a village, and a woman named Martha welcomed Him into her home.

She had a sister named Mary, who also sat at the Lord’s feet and was listening to what He said.

But a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, was left at his gate.

There was a man named Zacchaeus who was a chief tax collector, and he was rich.

While He was still speaking, suddenly a mob was there, and one of the Twelve named Judas was leading them. He came near Jesus to kiss Him,

There was a good and righteous man named Joseph, a member of the Sanhedrin,

The one named Cleopas answered Him, “Are You the only visitor in Jerusalem who doesn’t know the things that happened there in these days?”

There was a man named Johnwho was sent from God.

There was a man from the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.

Joseph, a Levite and a Cypriot by birth, the one the apostles called Barnabas, which is translated Son of Encouragement,

But a man named Ananias, with his wife Sapphira, sold a piece of property.

A Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law who was respected by all the people, stood up in the Sanhedrin and ordered the men to be taken outside for a little while.

They threw him out of the city and began to stone him. And the witnesses laid their robes at the feet of a young man named Saul.

A man named Simon had previously practiced sorcery in that city and astounded the Samaritan people, while claiming to be somebody great.

There was a disciple in Damascus named Ananias. And the Lord said to him in a vision, “Ananias!”“Here I am, Lord!” he said.

“Get up and go to the street called Straight,” the Lord said to him, “to the house of Judas, and ask for a man from Tarsus named Saul, since he is praying there.

In a vision he has seen a man named Ananias coming in and placing his hands on him so he can regain his sight.”

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

In Joppa there was a disciple named Tabitha, which is translated Dorcas. She was always doing good works and acts of charity.

There was a man in Caesarea named Cornelius, a centurion of what was called the Italian Regiment.

Now send men to Joppa and call for Simon, who is also named Peter.

They called out, asking if Simon, who was also named Peter, was lodging there.

Therefore send someone to Joppa and invite Simon here, who is also named Peter. He is lodging in Simon the tanner’s house by the sea.’

He reported to us how he had seen the angel standing in his house and saying, ‘Send to Joppa, and call for Simon, who is also named Peter.

Then one of them, named Agabus, stood up and predicted by the Spirit that there would be a severe famine throughout the Roman world. This took place during the time of Claudius.

He knocked at the door in the gateway, and a servant named Rhoda came to answer.

When they had gone through the whole island as far as Paphos, they came across a sorcerer, a Jewish false prophet named Bar-Jesus.

Then he went on to Derbe and Lystra, where there was a disciple named Timothy, the son of a believing Jewish woman, but his father was a Greek.

A woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth from the city of Thyatira, who worshiped God, was listening. The Lord opened her heart to pay attention to what was spoken by Paul.

However, some men joined him and believed, including Dionysius the Areopagite, a woman named Damaris, and others with them.

where he found a Jewish man named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to leave Rome. Paul came to them,

So he left there and went to the house of a man named Titius Justus, a worshiper of God, whose house was next door to the synagogue.

A Jew named Apollos, a native Alexandrian, an eloquent man who was powerful in the use of the Scriptures, arrived in Ephesus.

For a person named Demetrius, a silversmith who made silver shrines of Artemis, provided a great deal of business for the craftsmen.

and a young man named Eutychus was sitting on a window sill and sank into a deep sleep as Paul kept on speaking. When he was overcome by sleep, he fell down from the third story and was picked up dead.

While we were staying there many days, a prophet named Agabus came down from Judea.

Someone named Ananias, a devout man according to the law, having a good reputation with all the Jews residing there,

After five days Ananias the high priest came down with some elders and a lawyer named Tertullus. These men presented their case against Paul to the governor.

When it was decided that we were to sail to Italy, they handed over Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion named Julius, of the Imperial Regiment.

Now in the area around that place was an estate belonging to the leading man of the island, named Publius, who welcomed us and entertained us hospitably for three days.

My aim is to evangelize where Christ has not been named, so that I will not build on someone else’s foundation,

from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named.

And I looked, and there was a pale green horse. The horseman on it was named Death, and Hades was following after him. Authority was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill by the sword, by famine, by plague, and by the wild animals of the earth.