'People' in the Bible

Then answered Haggai and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before me, saith Jehovah, and so is every work of their hands; and that which they offer there is unclean.

And many nations shall join themselves to Jehovah in that day, and shall be unto me for a people; and I will dwell in the midst of thee, and thou shalt know that Jehovah of hosts hath sent me unto thee.

Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month, even those seventy years, did ye really fast unto me, even unto me?

Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: If it be wonderful in the eyes of the remnant of this people in those days, should it also be wonderful in mine eyes? saith Jehovah of hosts.

Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Behold, I will save my people from the east country and from the west country;

and I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness.

But now I will not be unto the remnant of this people as in the former days, saith Jehovah of hosts;

for the seed shall be prosperous, the vine shall give its fruit, and the ground shall give its produce, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things.

And Jehovah their God shall save them in that day as the flock of his people; for they shall be as the stones of a crown, lifted up upon his land.

And I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on my name, and I will answer them: I will say, It is my people; and they shall say, Jehovah is my God.

And I will assemble all the nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity; and the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city.

If Edom say, We are broken down, but we will build again the ruined places, thus saith Jehovah of hosts: They shall build, but I will throw down; and men shall call them the territory of wickedness, and the people against whom Jehovah hath indignation for ever.

And I also have made you contemptible and base before all the people, because ye have not kept my ways, but have respect of persons in administering the law.

And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sins.

and, assembling all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he inquired of them where the Christ should be born.

And thou Bethlehem, land of Juda, art in no wise the least among the governors of Juda; for out of thee shall go forth a leader who shall shepherd my people Israel.

the people sitting in darkness has seen a great light, and to those sitting in the country and shadow of death, to them has light sprung up.

And Jesus went round the whole of Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the glad tidings of the kingdom, and healing every disease and every bodily weakness among the people.

for the heart of this people has grown fat, and they have heard heavily with their ears, and they have closed their eyes as asleep, lest they should see with the eyes, and hear with the ears, and understand with the heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

This people honour me with the lips, but their heart is far away from me;

And when he came into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him as he was teaching, saying, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this authority?

Then the chief priests and the elders of the people were gathered together to the palace of the high priest who was called Caiaphas,

but they said, Not in the feast, that there be not a tumult among the people.

And while he was yet speaking, behold, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great crowd with swords and sticks from the chief priests and elders of the people.

And when it was morning all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus so that they might put him to death.

And all the people answering said, His blood be on us and on our children.

Command therefore that the sepulchre be secured until the third day, lest his disciples should come and steal him away, and say to the people, He is risen from the dead; and the last error shall be worse than the first.

And he suffered him not, but says to him, Go to thine home to thine own people, and tell them how great things the Lord has done for thee, and has had mercy on thee.

And he comes to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and sees the tumult, and people weeping and wailing greatly.

But he answering said to them, Well did Esaias prophesy concerning you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honour me with their lips, but their heart is far away from me.

but should we say, Of men they feared the people; for all held of John that he was truly a prophet.

David himself therefore calls him Lord, and whence is he his son? And the mass of the people heard him gladly.

For they said, Not in the feast, lest perhaps there be a tumult of the people.

And all the multitude of the people were praying without at the hour of incense.

And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn hearts of fathers to children, and disobedient ones to the thoughts of just men, to make ready for the Lord a prepared people.

And the people were awaiting Zacharias, and they wondered at his delaying in the temple.

Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel, because he has visited and wrought redemption for his people,

to give knowledge of deliverance to his people by the remission of their sins

And the angel said to them, Fear not, for behold, I announce to you glad tidings of great joy, which shall be to all the people;

a light for revelation of the Gentiles and the glory of thy people Israel.

But as the people were in expectation, and all were reasoning in their hearts concerning John whether he might be the Christ,

Exhorting then many other things also he announced his glad tidings to the people.

And it came to pass, all the people having been baptised, and Jesus having been baptised and praying, that the heaven was opened,

and having descended with them, he stood on a level place, and a crowd of his disciples, and a great multitude of the people from all Judaea and Jerusalem, and the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases;

And when he had completed all his words in the hearing of the people, he entered into Capernaum.

And fear seized on all, and they glorified God, saying, A great prophet has been raised up amongst us; and God has visited his people.

(And all the people who heard it, and the tax-gatherers, justified God, having been baptised with the baptism of John;

And the woman, seeing that she was not hid, came trembling, and falling down before him declared before all the people for what cause she had touched him, and how she was immediately healed.

And he said to them, Give ye them to eat. And they said, We have not more than five loaves and two fishes, unless we should go and buy food for all this people;

But the ruler of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus healed on the sabbath, answering said to the crowd, There are six days in which people ought to work; in these therefore come and be healed, and not on the sabbath day.

And immediately he saw, and followed him, glorifying God. And all the people when they saw it gave praise to God.

And he was teaching day by day in the temple: and the chief priests and the scribes and the chief of the people sought to destroy him,

and did not find what they could do, for all the people hung on him to hear.

And it came to pass on one of the days, as he was teaching the people in the temple, and announcing the glad tidings, the chief priests and the scribes with the elders came up,

but if we should say, Of men, the whole people will stone us, for they are persuaded that John was a prophet.

And he began to speak to the people this parable: A man planted a vineyard and let it out to husbandmen, and left the country for a long time.

And the chief priests and the scribes sought the same hour to lay hands on him, and they feared the people; for they knew that he had spoken this parable of them.

And they were not able to take hold of him in his expressions before the people, and, wondering at his answer, they were silent.

And, as all the people were listening, he said to his disciples,

But woe to them that are with child and to them who give suck in those days, for there shall be great distress upon the land and wrath upon this people.

and all the people came early in the morning to him in the temple to hear him.

and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might kill him; for they feared the people.

And when it was day, the elderhood of the people, both the chief priests and scribes, were gathered together, and led him into their council, saying,

But they insisted, saying, He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judaea, beginning from Galilee even on to here.

And Pilate, having called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people,

said to them, Ye have brought to me this man as turning away the people to rebellion, and behold, I, having examined him before you, have found nothing criminal in this man as to the things of which ye accuse him;

And a great multitude of the people, and of women who wailed and lamented him, followed him.

And the people stood beholding, and the rulers also with them sneered, saying, He has saved others; let him save himself if this is the Christ, the chosen one of God.

And he said to them, What things? And they said to him, The things concerning Jesus the Nazaraean, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people;

And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him; and he sat down and taught them.

nor consider that it is profitable for you that one man die for the people, and not that the whole nation perish.

But it was Caiaphas who counselled the Jews that it was better that one man should perish for the people.

praising God, and having favour with all the people; and the Lord added to the assembly daily those that were to be saved.

And all the people saw him walking and praising God;

And as he held Peter and John, all the people ran together to them in the portico which is called Solomon's, greatly wondering.

And Peter, seeing it, answered the people, Men of Israel, why are ye astonished at this? or why do ye gaze on us as if we had by our own power or piety made him to walk?

And it shall be that whatsoever soul shall not hear that prophet shall be destroyed from among the people.

And as they were speaking to the people, the priests and captain of the temple and the Sadducees came upon them,

being distressed on account of their teaching the people and preaching by Jesus the resurrection from among the dead;

Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, Rulers of the people and elders of Israel,

be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazaraean, whom ye have crucified, whom God has raised from among the dead, by him this man stands here before you sound in body.

But that it be not further spread among the people, let us threaten them severely no longer to speak to any man in this name.

But they, having further threatened them, let them go, finding no way how they might punish them, on account of the people, because all glorified God for what had taken place;

And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders done among the people; (and they were all with one accord in Solomon's porch,

but of the rest durst no man join them, but the people magnified them;

Go ye and stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.

And some one coming reported to them, Lo, the men whom ye put in the prison are in the temple, standing and teaching the people.

Then the captain, having gone with the officers, brought them, not with violence, for they feared the people, lest they should be stoned.

But a certain man, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law, held in honour of all the people, rose up in the council, and commanded to put the men out for a short while,

After him rose Judas the Galilean in the days of the census, and drew away a number of people after him; and he perished, and all, as many as obeyed him, were scattered abroad.

And Stephen, full of grace and power, wrought wonders and great signs among the people.

And they roused the people, and the elders, and the scribes. And coming upon him they seized him and brought him to the council.

But as the time of promise drew near which God had promised to Abraham, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt,

I have surely seen the ill treatment of my people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groan, and have come down to take them out of it; and now, come, I will send thee to Egypt.

pious, and fearing God with all his house, both giving much alms to the people, and supplicating God continually,

not of all the people, but of witnesses who were chosen before of God, us who have eaten and drunk with him after he arose from among the dead.

And he commanded us to preach to the people, and to testify that he it is who was determinately appointed of God to be judge of living and dead.

for he was a good man and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith; and a large crowd of people were added to the Lord.

whom having seized he put in prison, having delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep, purposing after the passover to bring him out to the people.

And Peter, being come to himself, said, Now I know certainly that the Lord has sent forth his angel and has taken me out of the hand of Herod and all the expectation of the people of the Jews.