18 Bible Verses about Crowds Seeking

The next morning Jesus departed and went to a deserted place. Yet the crowds were seeking him, and they came to him and tried to keep him from leaving them.

Now when Jesus returned, the crowd welcomed him, because they were all waiting for him.

Now on the next day, when they had come down from the mountain, a large crowd met him.

Because they had heard that Jesus had performed this miraculous sign, the crowd went out to meet him.

When the whole crowd saw him, they were amazed and ran at once and greeted him.

Then large crowds came to him bringing with them the lame, blind, crippled, mute, and many others. They laid them at his feet, and he healed them.

Jerusalem, Idumea, beyond the Jordan River, and around Tyre and Sidon a great multitude came to him when they heard about the things he had done.

Then the crowd came up and began to ask Pilate to release a prisoner for them, as was his custom.

While he was still speaking, suddenly a crowd appeared, and the man named Judas, one of the twelve, was leading them. He walked up to Jesus to kiss him.

Now a large crowd of Judeans learned that Jesus was there, and so they came not only because of him but also to see Lazarus whom he had raised from the dead.

So the crowds were asking him, "What then should we do?"

During the feast the governor was accustomed to release one prisoner to the crowd, whomever they wanted.

As the crowds were increasing, Jesus began to say, "This generation is a wicked generation; it looks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah.

While Jesus was still speaking to the crowds, his mother and brothers came and stood outside, asking to speak to him.

A crowd was sitting around him and they said to him, "Look, your mother and your brothers are outside looking for you."

So when the crowd realized that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into the boats and came to Capernaum looking for Jesus.

He was trying to get a look at Jesus, but being a short man he could not see over the crowd.

Jesus replied, "I tell you the solemn truth, you are looking for me not because you saw miraculous signs, but because you ate all the loaves of bread you wanted.