'City' in the Bible

Then the Devil took him to the Holy City and had him stand on the highest point of the Temple.

"You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill can't be hidden.

nor by the earth, because it is his footstool, nor by Jerusalem, because it is the city of the Great King.

Now when those who had been taking care of the pigs ran away, they came into the city and reported everything, especially what had happened to the demon-possessed men.

Then the whole city went out to meet Jesus, and as soon as they saw him, they begged him to leave their region.

After getting into a boat, Jesus crossed to the other side and came to his own city.

He knew what they were thinking and told them, "Every kingdom divided against itself is destroyed, and every city or household divided against itself will not stand.

When he came into Jerusalem, the whole city was trembling with excitement. The people were asking, "Who is this?"

Jesus told them, "Yes! Haven't you ever read, "From the mouths of infants and nursing babies you have created praise'?" Then he left them and went out of the city to Bethany and spent the night there.

In the morning, as Jesus was returning to the city, he became hungry.

Then the king became outraged. He sent his troops, and they destroyed those murderers and burned their city.

He said, "Go to a certain man in the city and say to him, "The Teacher says, "My time is near. I will celebrate the Passover with my disciples at your house."'"

After his resurrection, they came out of their tombs, went into the Holy City, and appeared to many people.

While the women were on their way, some of the guards went into the city and told the high priests everything that had happened.

In fact, the whole city gathered at the door.

Now when those who had been taking care of the pigs ran away, they reported what had happened in the city and countryside. So the people went to see what had happened.

When evening came, Jesus and his disciples would leave the city.

He sent two of his disciples, telling them, "Go into the city, and you will meet a man carrying a jug of water. Follow him.

So the disciples left and went into the city. They found everything just as Jesus had told them, and they prepared the Passover meal.

Now in the sixth month of her pregnancy, the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a city in Galilee called Nazareth,

Later on, Mary set out for a Judean city in the hill country.

Joseph, too, went up from the city of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to the City of David (called Bethlehem), because he was a descendant of the household and family of David.

Today your Savior, the Lord Messiah, was born in the City of David.

They got up, forced Jesus out of the city, and led him to the edge of the hill on which their city was built, intending to throw him off.

Then Jesus went down to Capernaum, a city in Galilee, and began teaching the people on Sabbath days.

Soon afterwards, Jesus went to a city called Nain. His disciples and a large crowd were going along with him.

As he approached the entrance to the city, a man who had died was being carried out. He was his mother's only son, and she was a widow. A large crowd from the city was with her.

There was a woman who was a notorious sinner in that city. When she learned that Jesus was eating at the Pharisee's home, she took an alabaster jar of perfume

After this, Jesus traveled from one city and village to another, preaching and spreading the good news about God's kingdom. The Twelve were with him,

Now while a large crowd was gathering and people were coming to Jesus from every city, he said in a parable:

When Jesus stepped out on the shore, a man from the city met him. This man was controlled by demons and had not worn clothes for a long time. He did not live in a house but in the tombs.

Now when those who had been taking care of the pigs saw what had happened, they ran away and reported it in the city and in the countryside.

"Go home and tell what God has done for you." So the man left and kept proclaiming throughout the whole city how much Jesus had done for him.

if people don't welcome you, when you leave that city, shake its dust off your feet as a testimony against them."

The apostles came back and told Jesus everything they had done. Then he took them away with him privately to a city called Bethsaida.

He said, "In a city there was a judge who didn't fear God or respect people.

In that city there was also a widow who kept coming to him and saying, "Grant me justice against my adversary.'

When he came closer and saw the city, he began to grieve over it:

They will level you to the ground you and those who live within your city limits. They will not leave one stone on another within your walls, because you didn't recognize the time when you were visited."

Then those in Judea must flee to the mountains, those inside the city must leave it, and those in the countryside must not go into it,

He told them, "Just after you go into the city, a man carrying a jug of water will meet you. Follow him into the house he enters

(This man had been put in prison for murder and for a revolt that had taken place in the city.)

I am sending to you what my Father promised, so stay here in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high."

Many Jews read this inscription, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city. It was written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek.

When they came into the city, these men went to the upstairs room where they had been staying: Peter and John, James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James.

For in this city both Herod and Pontius Pilate actually met together with unbelievers and the people of Israel to oppose your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed,

arrested the apostles, and put them in the city jail.

ran him outside of the city, and began to stone him to death. Meanwhile, the witnesses laid their coats at the feet of a young man named Saul.

Philip went down to the city of Samaria and began to preach the Messiah to the people.

As a result, there was great rejoicing in that city.

Now in that city there was a man named Simon. He was practicing occult arts and thrilling the people of Samaria, claiming to be someone great.

The voice said, "I'm Jesus, whom you are persecuting. Now get up, go into the city, and you will be told what you are to do."

but his disciples took him one night and let him down through the city wall by lowering him in a basket.

They passed the first guard, then the second, and came to the iron gate that led into the city. It opened by itself for them, and they went outside and proceeded one block when the angel suddenly left him.

But the Jewish leaders stirred up devout women of high social standing and the officials in the city, started a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and drove them out of their territory.

But the people of the city were divided. Some were with the Jews, while others were with the apostles.

The priest of the temple of Zeus, which was just outside the city, brought bulls and garlands to the gates. He and the crowds wanted to offer sacrifices.

As they were proclaiming the good news in that city, they discipled a large number of people. Then they went back to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch,

After all, Moses has had people to proclaim him in every city for generations, and on every Sabbath his books are read aloud in the synagogues."

and from there to Philippi, an important city of the district of Macedonia and a Roman colony. We were in this city for several days.

On the Sabbath day, we went out the city gate and walked along the river, where we thought there was a place of prayer. We sat down and began talking to the women who had gathered there.

A woman named Lydia, from the city of Thyatira, a dealer in purple goods, was listening to us. She was a worshiper of God, and the Lord opened her heart to listen carefully to what was being said by Paul.

They brought them before the magistrates and said, "These men are stirring up a lot of trouble in our city. They are Jews

So the magistrates came, apologized to them, and escorted them out. Then they asked them to leave the city.

But the Jewish leaders became jealous, and they took some contemptible characters who used to hang out in the public square, formed a mob, and started a riot in the city. They attacked Jason's home and searched it for Paul and Silas in order to bring them out to the people.

When they didn't find them, they dragged Jason and some other brothers before the city officials and shouted, "These fellows who have turned the world upside down have come here, too,

The crowd and the city officials were upset when they heard this,

While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, his spirit was deeply disturbed to see the city full of idols.

For I am with you, and no one will lay a hand on you or harm you, because I have many people in this city."

The city was filled with confusion, and the people rushed into the theater together, dragging with them Gaius and Aristarchus, Paul's fellow travelers from Macedonia.

When the city recorder had quieted the crowd, he said, "Men of Ephesus, who in the world doesn't know that this city of Ephesus is the keeper of the temple of the great Artemis and of the statue that fell down from heaven?

but when our time there came to an end, we left and proceeded on our journey. All of them accompanied us with their wives and children out of the city. We knelt on the beach, prayed,

For they had earlier seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with him and assumed that Paul had taken him into the Temple.

The whole city was in chaos. The people rushed together, grabbed Paul, dragged him out of the Temple, and at once the doors were sealed shut.

Paul replied, "I'm a Jew from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no insignificant city. Please let me speak to the people."

"I am a Jew, born in Tarsus in Cilicia but raised in this city and educated at the feet of Gamaliel in the strict ways of our ancestral Law. I am as zealous for God as all of you are today.

They never found me debating with anyone in the Temple or stirring up a crowd in the synagogues or throughout the city,

The next day, Agrippa and Bernice arrived with much fanfare and went into the auditorium along with the tribunes and the leading men of the city. At the command of Festus, Paul was brought in.

Gaius, who is host to me and the whole church, greets you. Erastus, the city treasurer, and our brother Quartus greet you.

I have traveled extensively and have been endangered from rivers, robbers, my own people, and gentiles. I've also been in danger in the city, in the open country, at sea, from false brothers,

In Damascus, the governor under King Aretas put guards around the city of Damascus to catch me,

The reason I left you in Crete was to complete what still needed to be done and to appoint elders in every city, as I myself commanded you.

because he was waiting for the city with permanent foundations, whose architect and builder is God.

Instead, they were longing for a better country, that is, a heavenly one. That is why God is not ashamed to be called their God, because he has prepared a city for them.

Instead, you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, to the heavenly Jerusalem, to tens of thousands of angels joyfully gathered together,

That is why Jesus, in order to sanctify the people by his own blood, also suffered outside the city gate.

For here we have no permanent city but are looking for the one that is coming.

I will make the one who conquers to become a pillar in the sanctuary of my God, and he will never go out of it again. I will write on him the name of my God, the name of the city of my God (the new Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God), and my own new name.

But don't measure the courtyard outside the Temple. Leave that out, because it is given to the nations, and they will trample the Holy City for 42 months.

Their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city that is spiritually called Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord was crucified.

At that moment a powerful earthquake struck. One-tenth of the city collapsed, 7,000 people were killed by the earthquake, and the rest were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven.

The wine press was trampled outside the city, and blood flowed from the wine press as high as a horse's bridle for about 1,600 stadia.

The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. God remembered to give Babylon the Great the cup of wine filled with the fury of his wrath.

The woman you saw is the great city that rules over the kings of the earth."

Frightened by the torture that she experiences, they will stand far away and cry out, "How terrible, how terrible it is for that great city, the powerful city Babylon, because your judgment arrived in a single hour!"

"How terrible, how terrible it is for the great city that was clothed in fine linen, purple, and scarlet and was adorned with gold, gems, and pearls,

Every ship's captain, everyone who traveled by ship, sailors, and everyone who made a living from the sea stood far away. When they saw the smoke rising from the fire that consumed her, they began to cry out, "What city was like that great city?"

Then they threw dust on their heads and shouted while crying and mourning: "How terrible, how terrible it is for the great city, where all who had ships at sea became rich from her wealth, because it has been destroyed in a single hour!

Then a powerful angel picked up a stone that was like a large millstone and threw it into the sea, saying, "The great city Babylon will be thrown down violently and will never be found again.

They marched over the broad expanse of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. Fire came from God out of heaven and burned them up,