'Crowd' in the Bible

Entering the Ruler's house, Jesus saw the flute-players and the crowd loudly wailing,

When however the place was cleared of the crowd, Jesus went in, and on His taking the little girl by the hand, she rose up.

While He was still addressing the people His mother and His brothers were standing on the edge of the crowd desiring to speak to Him.

As they were leaving Jericho, an immense crowd following Him,

and most of the crowd kept spreading their garments along the road, while others cut branches from the trees and carpeted the road with them,

All the crowd heard this, and were filled with amazement at His teaching.

He had scarcely finished speaking when Judas came--one of the Twelve--accompanied by a great crowd of men armed with swords and bludgeons, sent by the High Priests and Elders of the People.

The High Priests, however, and the Elders urged the crowd to ask for Barabbas and to demand the death of Jesus.

Finding themselves unable, however, to bring him to Jesus because of the crowd, they untiled the roof just over His head, and after clearing an opening they lowered the mat on which the paralytic was lying.

Accordingly Jesus withdrew with His disciples to the Lake, and a vast crowd of people from Galilee followed Him;

and from Judaea and Jerusalem and Idumaea and from beyond the Jordan and from the district of Tyre and Sidon there came to Him a vast crowd, hearing of all that He was doing.

And He went into a house. But again the crowd assembled, so that there was no opportunity for them even to snatch a meal.

Now a crowd was sitting round Him; so they tell Him, "Your mother and your brothers and sisters are outside, inquiring for you."

So they got away from the crowd, and took Him--as He was--in the boat; and other boats accompanied Him.

And Jesus went with him. And a dense crowd followed Him, and thronged Him on all sides.

heard of Jesus. And she came in the crowd behind Him and touched His cloak;

Immediately Jesus, well knowing that healing power had gone from within Him, turned round in the crowd and asked, "Who touched my clothes?"

Immediately afterwards He made His disciples go on board the boat and cross over to Bethsaida, leaving Him behind to dismiss the crowd.

After He had left the crowd and gone indoors, His disciples began to ask Him about this figure of speech.

So Jesus taking him aside, apart from the crowd, put His fingers into his ears, and spat, and moistened his tongue;

About that time there was again an immense crowd, and they found themselves with nothing to eat. So He called His disciples to Him.

"Where can we possibly get bread here in this remote place to satisfy such a crowd?" answered His disciples.

Then calling to Him the crowd and also His disciples, He said to them, "If any one is desirous of following me, let him ignore self and take up his cross, and so be my follower.

As they came to rejoin the disciples, they saw an immense crowd surrounding them and a party of Scribes disputing with them.

"Rabbi," answered one of the crowd, "I have brought you my son. He has a dumb spirit in him;

Then Jesus, seeing that an increasing crowd was running towards Him, rebuked the foul spirit, and said to it, "Dumb and deaf spirit, *I* command you, come out of him and never enter into him again."

They came to Jericho; and as He was leaving that town--Himself and His disciples and a great crowd--Bartimaeus (the son of Timaeus)

Immediately, while He was still speaking, Judas, one of the Twelve, came and with him a crowd of men armed with swords and cudgels, sent by the High Priests and Scribes and Elders.

But the High Priests urged on the crowd to obtain Barabbas's release in preference;

On one occasion the crowd was pressing on Him and listening to God's Message, while He was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret.

and going on board one of them, which was Simon's He asked him to push out a little from land. Then He sat down and taught the crowd of people from the boat.

But when they could find no way of doing so because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and let him down through the tiling--bed and all--into the midst, in front of Jesus.

With these He came down till He reached a level place, where there was a great crowd of His disciples, and a multitude of people from every part of Judaea, from Jerusalem, and from the sea-side district of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear Him and to be cured of their diseases;

The whole crowd were eager to touch Him, because power went forth from him and cured every one.

Jesus listened to the Captain's message and was astonished at him, and He turned and said to the crowd that followed Him, "I tell you that not even in Israel have I found faith like that."

Shortly afterwards He went to a town called Nain, attended by His disciples and a great crowd of people.

And when a great crowd was assembling, and was receiving additions from one town after another, He spoke a parable to them.

Then came to Him His mother and His brothers, but could not get near Him for the crowd.

But He was told, "Your mother and brothers are standing on the edge of the crowd, and want to see you."

But the immense crowd, aware of this, followed Him; and receiving them kindly He proceeded to speak to them of the Kingdom of God, and those who needed to be restored to health, He cured.

On the following day, when they were come down from the mountain, a great crowd came to meet Him;

and a man from the crowd called out, "Rabbi, I beg you to pity my son, for he is my only child.

As He thus spoke a woman in the crowd called out in a loud voice, "Blessed is the mother who carried you, and the breasts that you have sucked."

Just then a man in the crowd appealed to Him. "Rabbi," he said, "tell my brother to give me a share of the inheritance."

Then the Warden of the Synagogue, indignant that Jesus had cured her on a Sabbath, said to the crowd, "There are six days in the week on which people ought to work. On those days therefore come and get yourselves cured, and not on the Sabbath day."

He heard a crowd of people going past, and inquired what it all meant.

He was anxious to see what sort of man Jesus was; but he could not because of the crowd, for he was short in stature.

Thereupon some of the Pharisees in the crowd appealed to Him, saying, "Rabbi, reprove your disciples."

While He was still speaking there came a crowd with Judas, already mentioned as one of the Twelve, at their head. He went up to Jesus to kiss Him.

Pilate said to the High Priests and to the crowd, "I can find no crime in this man."

A vast crowd of the people also followed Him, and of women who were beating their breasts and wailing for Him.

But the man who had been cured did not know who it was; for Jesus had passed out unnoticed, there being a crowd in the place.

And when He looked round and saw an immense crowd coming towards Him, He said to Philip, "Where shall we buy bread for all these people to eat?"

Next morning the crowd who were still standing about on the other side of the Lake found that there had been but one small boat there, and they had seen that Jesus did not go on board with His disciples, but that His disciples went away without Him.

When however the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor His disciples were there, they themselves also took boats and came to Capernaum to look for Jesus.

"You are possessed by a demon," replied the crowd; "no one wants to kill you."

But from among the crowd a large number believed in Him. "When the Christ comes," they said, "will He perform more miracles than this teacher has performed?"

After listening to these discourses, some of the crowd began to say, "This is beyond doubt the Prophet."

I know that Thou always hearest me; but for the sake of the crowd standing round I have said this--that they may believe that Thou didst send me."

The next day a great crowd of those who had come to the Festival, hearing that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,

This was also why the crowd came to meet Him, because they had heard of His having performed that miracle.

The crowd that stood by and heard it, said that there had been thunder. Others said, "An angel spoke to him."

The crowd answered Him, "We have heard out of the Law that the Christ remains for ever. In what sense do you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is that Son of Man?"

And the priest of Zeus--the temple of Zeus being at the entrance to the city--brought bullocks and garlands to the gates, and in company with the crowd was intending to offer sacrifices to them.

But the Apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of it; and tearing their clothes they rushed out into the middle of the crowd, exclaiming, "Sirs, why are you doing all this?

Even with words like these they had difficulty in preventing the thronging crowd from offering sacrifices to them.

But now a party of Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and, having won over the crowd, they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the town, believing him to be dead.

The crowd, too, joined in the outcry against them, till at length the praetors ordered them to be stripped and beaten with rods;

Great was the excitement among the crowd, and among the magistrates of the city, when they heard these charges.

Some of the crowd shouted one accusation against Paul and some another, until, as the uproar made it impossible for the truth to be ascertained with certainty, the Tribune ordered him to be brought into the barracks.

and that neither in the Temple nor in the synagogues, nor anywhere in the city, did they find me disputing with any opponent or collecting a crowd about me.

While I was busy about these, they found me in the Temple purified, with no crowd around me and no uproar; but there were certain Jews from the province of Asia.