'Summoned' in the Bible

Then Herod secretly summoned the wise men and asked them the exact time the star appeared.

Jesus summoned His twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every kind of disease and every kind of sickness.

He summoned the multitude, and said to them, "Hear, and understand.

Now Jesus summoned His disciples and said, “I have compassion on the crowd, because they’ve already stayed with Me three days and have nothing to eat. I don’t want to send them away hungry; otherwise they might collapse on the way.”

“Then, after he had summoned him, his master said to him, ‘You wicked slave! I forgave you all that debt because you begged me.

But Jesus summoned them, and said, "You know that the rulers of the nations lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them.

For many are called (invited, summoned), but few are chosen.”

"For it is like a man going on a journey, who summoned his slaves and entrusted his property to them.

Then He went up the mountain and summoned those He wanted, and they came to Him.

So He summoned them and spoke to them in parables: “How can Satan drive out Satan?

He summoned the Twelve and began to send them out in pairs and gave them authority over unclean spirits.

In those days there was again a large crowd, and they had nothing to eat. He summoned the disciples and said to them,

And He summoned the crowd with His disciples, and said to them, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me.

Jesus summoned them, and said to them, "You know that they who are recognized as rulers over the nations lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them.

Joseph of Arimathaea came, a highly respected member of the Council, who himself also was living in expectation of the Kingdom of God. He summoned up courage to go in to see Pilate and beg for the body of Jesus.

Pilate was amazed to hear that Jesus had already died, so he summoned the centurion to ask him if he was in fact dead.

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

Then John’s disciples told him about all these things. So John summoned two of his disciples

John called two of his disciples and sent them to the Lord, saying, “Are You the Expected One (the Messiah), or should we look for someone else?”

And [when he] saw her, Jesus summoned [her] and said to her, "Woman, you are freed from your disability!"

So he summoned one of the servants and asked what these things meant.

And he summoned him [and] said to him, 'What is this I hear about you? Give the account of your management, because you can no longer manage.'

“So he summoned each one of his master’s debtors. ‘How much do you owe my master?’ he asked the first one.

Jesus summoned them, saying, "Allow the little children to come to me, and don't hinder them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

And he summoned ten of his slaves, gave them ten minas, and said to them, 'Do business with these until I come back.'

“At his return, having received the authority to be king, he summoned those slaves he had given the money to, so he could find out how much they had made in business.

Pilate summoned the chief priests and the rulers and the people,

Now when the head steward tasted the water which had become wine and did not know where it was from--but the servants who had drawn the water knew--the head steward summoned the bridegroom

The Jews did not believe this about him—that he was blind and received sight—until they summoned the parents of the one who had received his sight.

So a second time they summoned the man who had been blind and told him, “Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner!”

Then Pilate went back into the headquarters, summoned Jesus, and said to Him, “Are You the King of the Jews?”

And when they had summoned them, they commanded them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus.

When they heard this, they entered the temple courts at daybreak and began teaching. Now when the high priest and those who were with him arrived, they summoned the Sanhedrin -- that is, the whole high council of the Israelites -- and sent to the jail to have the apostles brought before them.

and they summoned the apostles and had them beaten. Then they ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus and released them.

Then the Twelve summoned the whole company of the disciples and said, “It would not be right for us to give up preaching about God to handle financial matters.

So Joseph sent [and] summoned his father Jacob and all [his] relatives, seventy-five persons in [all].

When the angel who had spoken to him had gone, Cornelius summoned two of his household servants and a devout soldier, one of those who served him regularly.

He was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man. This man summoned Barnabas and Saul and desired to hear God’s message.

Now after the turmoil had ceased, Paul summoned the disciples, and [after] encouraging [them], he said farewell [and] departed to travel to Macedonia.

However, from Miletus he sent word to Ephesus and summoned the elders of the church [to meet him there].

Paul summoned one of the centurions, and said, "Bring this young man to the commanding officer, for he has something to tell him."

So he took him, and brought him to the commanding officer, and said, "Paul, the prisoner, summoned me and asked me to bring this young man to you, who has something to tell you."

He summoned two of his centurions and said, “Get 200 soldiers ready with 70 cavalry and 200 spearmen to go to Caesarea at nine tonight.

When Paul had been summoned, Tertullus opened the prosecution by saying:

Paul, called as an apostle (special messenger, personally chosen representative) of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes,

Only, let each one live the life which the Lord has assigned him, and to which God has called him [for each person is unique and is accountable for his choices and conduct, let him walk in this way]. This is the rule I make in all the churches.

For he who was a slave when he was called in the Lord is a freedman of the Lord, likewise he who was free when he was called is a slave of Christ.

but after we had already suffered and been outrageously treated in Philippi, as you know, yet in [the strength of] our God we summoned the courage to proclaim boldly to you the good news of God [regarding salvation] amid great opposition.

Fight the good fight of the faith [in the conflict with evil]; take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and [for which] you made the good confession [of faith] in the presence of many witnesses.

Then the angel said to me, “Write, ‘Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.’” And he said to me [further], “These are the true and exact words of God.”