{"id":399510,"date":"2026-04-27T06:59:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T06:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/399510\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T06:59:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T06:59:14","slug":"russell-brand-finds-bible-verse-he-read-in-court-after-dire-piers-morgan-appearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/399510\/","title":{"rendered":"Russell Brand finds Bible verse he read in court after ‘dire’ Piers Morgan appearance"},"content":{"rendered":"

R\ufeffussell Brand<\/a> has finally found the Bible verse he claims to have read in court while facing rape and sexual assault charges.<\/a><\/p>\n

Writing on X, the comedian revealed he had found it after his \ufeff”dire” interview with Piers Morgan, in which the talk show host asked him to read the verse out loud on the show.<\/p>\n

Brand searched for the passage for 90 seconds \ufeffas Morgan watched on, before ultimately saying he couldn’t find it.<\/p>\n

Watch the video above.\ufeff<\/p>\n

\"RussellR\ufeffussell Brand has found the Bible verse he claims to have read in court while facing rape and sexual assault charges. (Twitter)<\/p>\n

“I’m still looking for that passage actually, from my dire \u2026 from Piers Morgan. Wait for it \u2026 wait for it. Look, it was marked all along,” Brand said in a video posted to X two days after his appearance on YouTube talk show Piers Morgan Uncensored.<\/p>\n

“I was looking for it. I thought, ‘I should find the actual right passage \u2014 the exact one I was looking at when I was sat in the dark in the court.”\ufeff<\/p>\n

The comedian says he read the Bible verse Isiah 43:18-19 out loud in court before he pleaded not guilty to one count of rape, one count of indecent assault, one count of oral rape and two counts of sexual assault charges in a UK court earlier this year.<\/p>\n

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\"RussellRussell Brand tried to find the bible verse for 90 seconds. (Piers Morgan)<\/p>\n

“This is the verse I was looking at that day,” he continued, before reading out the text.<\/p>\n

“‘Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past.<\/p>\n

“See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.'”<\/p>\n

Brand then asked his followers if they ever felt that what they “personally face will align and combine with something universal.”<\/p>\n

During the comedian’s appearance on Morgan’s online talk show, \ufeffthe British broadcaster asked Brand if he “could ask a question about his Bible.”<\/p>\n

“Yes, if you want,” he replied. \ufeff<\/p>\n

Morgan asked if it was the same Bible Brand had taken into the courtroom, which the Forgetting Sarah Marshall star \ufeffsaid it was.<\/p>\n

“What was your thinking of taking it into court? And what you were seeing, looking at some passages, what were the relevant passages for you?” he asked.<\/p>\n

“Thank you for asking me,” Brand responded.<\/p>\n

\"RussellPiers Morgan watched on in silence. (Piers Morgan)<\/p>\n

He then began flipping through the pages of his bible, trying to find the verse. Morgan sat silently next to him while he searched.<\/p>\n

The moment went viral online, with Brand facing intense backlash almost immediately.<\/p>\n

His court case is still underway in the UK.<\/p>\n

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