'Crowd' in the Bible

"You must not follow a crowd in doing evil things; in a lawsuit you must not offer testimony that agrees with a crowd so as to pervert justice,

Saul's watchmen at Gibeah in the territory of Benjamin looked on as the crowd of soldiers seemed to melt away first in one direction and then in another.

When Athaliah heard the royal guard shout, she joined the crowd at the Lord's temple.

When Athaliah heard the royal guard shouting and praising the king, she joined the crowd at the Lord's temple.

A huge crowd assembled in Jerusalem to observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread in the second month.

While Ezra was praying and confessing, weeping and throwing himself to the ground before the temple of God, a very large crowd of Israelites -- men, women, and children alike -- gathered around him. The people wept loudly.

Protect me from the wicked men who attack me, my enemies who crowd around me for the kill.

Yes, wild dogs surround me -- a gang of evil men crowd around me; like a lion they pin my hands and feet.

Then I will give you thanks in the great assembly; I will praise you before a large crowd of people!

I will remember and weep! For I was once walking along with the great throng to the temple of God, shouting and giving thanks along with the crowd as we celebrated the holy festival.

We would share personal thoughts with each other; in God's temple we would walk together among the crowd.

Hide me from the plots of evil men, from the crowd of evildoers.

I will thank the Lord profusely, in the middle of a crowd I will praise him,

Then all the men who were aware that their wives were sacrificing to other gods, as well as all their wives, answered Jeremiah. There was a great crowd of them representing all the people who lived in northern and southern Egypt. They answered,

Violence has grown into a staff that supports wickedness. Not one of them will be left -- not from their crowd, not from their wealth, not from their prominence.

The time has come; the day has struck! The customer should not rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for divine wrath comes against their whole crowd.

The customer will no longer pay the seller while both parties are alive, for the vision against their whole crowd will not be revoked. Each person, for his iniquity, will fail to preserve his life.

"They have blown the trumpet and everyone is ready, but no one goes to battle, because my anger is against their whole crowd.

The sound of a carefree crowd accompanied her, including all kinds of men; even Sabeans were brought from the desert. The sisters put bracelets on their wrists and beautiful crowns on their heads.

His body resembled yellow jasper, and his face had an appearance like lightning. His eyes were like blazing torches; his arms and feet had the gleam of polished bronze. His voice thundered forth like the sound of a large crowd.

Now when Jesus saw a large crowd around him, he gave orders to go to the other side of the lake.

When the crowd saw this, they were afraid and honored God who had given such authority to men.

When Jesus entered the ruler's house and saw the flute players and the disorderly crowd,

But when the crowd had been put outside, he went in and gently took her by the hand, and the girl got up.

While they were going away, Jesus began to speak to the crowd about John: "What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?

And such a large crowd gathered around him that he got into a boat to sit while the whole crowd stood on the shore.

Although Herod wanted to kill John, he feared the crowd because they accepted John as a prophet.

Now when Jesus heard this he went away from there privately in a boat to an isolated place. But when the crowd heard about it, they followed him on foot from the towns.

As he got out he saw the large crowd, and he had compassion on them and healed their sick.

Then he called the crowd to him and said, "Listen and understand.

As a result, the crowd was amazed when they saw the mute speaking, the crippled healthy, the lame walking, and the blind seeing, and they praised the God of Israel.

Then Jesus called the disciples and said, "I have compassion on the crowd, because they have already been here with me three days and they have nothing to eat. I don't want to send them away hungry since they may faint on the way."

The disciples said to him, "Where can we get enough bread in this desolate place to satisfy so great a crowd?"

After instructing the crowd to sit down on the ground,

After sending away the crowd, he got into the boat and went to the region of Magadan.

When they came to the crowd, a man came to him, knelt before him,

As they were leaving Jericho, a large crowd followed them.

The crowd scolded them to get them to be quiet. But they shouted even more loudly, "Lord, have mercy on us, Son of David!"

A very large crowd spread their cloaks on the road. Others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road.

But if we say, 'From people,' we fear the crowd, for they all consider John to be a prophet."

While he was still speaking, Judas, one of the twelve, arrived. With him was a large crowd armed with swords and clubs, sent by the chief priests and elders of the people.

At that moment Jesus said to the crowd, "Have you come out with swords and clubs to arrest me like you would an outlaw? Day after day I sat teaching in the temple courts, yet you did not arrest me.

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

When Pilate saw that he could do nothing, but that instead a riot was starting, he took some water, washed his hands before the crowd and said, "I am innocent of this man's blood. You take care of it yourselves!"

When they were not able to bring him in because of the crowd, they removed the roof above Jesus. Then, after tearing it out, they lowered the stretcher the paralytic was lying on.

Jesus went out again by the sea. The whole crowd came to him, and he taught them.

Because of the crowd, he told his disciples to have a small boat ready for him so the crowd would not press toward him.

Now Jesus went home, and a crowd gathered so that they were not able to eat.

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

Again he began to teach by the lake. Such a large crowd gathered around him that he got into a boat on the lake and sat there while the whole crowd was on the shore by the lake.

So after leaving the crowd, they took him along, just as he was, in the boat, and other boats were with him.

When Jesus had crossed again in a boat to the other side, a large crowd gathered around him, and he was by the sea.

Jesus went with him, and a large crowd followed and pressed around him.

When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak,

Jesus knew at once that power had gone out from him. He turned around in the crowd and said, "Who touched my clothes?"

His disciples said to him, "You see the crowd pressing against you and you say, 'Who touched me?'"

As Jesus came ashore he saw the large crowd and he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. So he taught them many things.

Immediately Jesus made his disciples get into the boat and go on ahead to the other side, to Bethsaida, while he dispersed the crowd.

Then he called the crowd again and said to them, "Listen to me, everyone, and understand.

Now when Jesus had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about the parable.

After Jesus took him aside privately, away from the crowd, he put his fingers in the man's ears, and after spitting, he touched his tongue.

In those days there was another large crowd with nothing to eat. So Jesus called his disciples and said to them,

"I have compassion on the crowd, because they have already been here with me three days, and they have nothing to eat.

Then he directed the crowd to sit down on the ground. After he took the seven loaves and gave thanks, he broke them and began giving them to the disciples to serve. So they served the crowd.

Then Jesus called the crowd, along with his disciples, and said to them, "If anyone wants to become my follower, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.

When they came to the disciples, they saw a large crowd around them and experts in the law arguing with them.

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

A member of the crowd said to him, "Teacher, I brought you my son, who is possessed by a spirit that makes him mute.

Now when Jesus saw that a crowd was quickly gathering, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, "Mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him and never enter him again."

They came to Jericho. As Jesus and his disciples and a large crowd were leaving Jericho, Bartimaeus the son of Timaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the road.

The chief priests and the experts in the law heard it and they considered how they could assassinate him, for they feared him, because the whole crowd was amazed by his teaching.

But if we say, 'From people -- '" (they feared the crowd, for they all considered John to be truly a prophet).

Now they wanted to arrest him (but they feared the crowd), because they realized that he told this parable against them. So they left him and went away.

If David himself calls him 'Lord,' how can he be his son?" And the large crowd was listening to him with delight.

Then he sat down opposite the offering box, and watched the crowd putting coins into it. Many rich people were throwing in large amounts.

Right away, while Jesus was still speaking, Judas, one of the twelve, arrived. With him came a crowd armed with swords and clubs, sent by the chief priests and experts in the law and elders.

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

But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to have him release Barabbas instead.

Because he wanted to satisfy the crowd, Pilate released Barabbas for them. Then, after he had Jesus flogged, he handed him over to be crucified.

Now the whole crowd of people were praying outside at the hour of the incense offering.

But he passed through the crowd and went on his way.

Now Jesus was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret, and the crowd was pressing around him to hear the word of God.

But since they found no way to carry him in because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and let him down on the stretcher through the roof tiles right in front of Jesus.

Then Levi gave a great banquet in his house for Jesus, and there was a large crowd of tax collectors and others sitting at the table with them.

The whole crowd was trying to touch him, because power was coming out from him and healing them all.

When Jesus heard this, he was amazed at him. He turned and said to the crowd that followed him, "I tell you, not even in Israel have I found such faith!"

Soon afterward Jesus went to a town called Nain, and his disciples and a large crowd went with him.

As he approached the town gate, a man who had died was being carried out, the only son of his mother (who was a widow), and a large crowd from the town was with her.

While a large crowd was gathering and people were coming to Jesus from one town after another, he spoke to them in a parable:

Now Jesus' mother and his brothers came to him, but they could not get near him because of the crowd.

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

Now the day began to draw to a close, so the twelve came and said to Jesus, "Send the crowd away, so they can go into the surrounding villages and countryside and find lodging and food, because we are in an isolated place."

Then he took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven he gave thanks and broke them. He gave them to the disciples to set before the crowd.

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

Then a man from the crowd cried out, "Teacher, I beg you to look at my son -- he is my only child!

ThenBut while the entire crowd was amazed at everything Jesus was doing, he said to his disciples,

As he said these things, a woman in the crowd spoke out to him, "Blessed is the womb that bore you and the breasts at which you nursed!"

Meanwhile, when many thousands of the crowd had gathered so that they were trampling on one another, Jesus began to speak first to his disciples, "Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

Then someone from the crowd said to him, "Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me."

But the president of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the crowd, "There are six days on which work should be done! So come and be healed on those days, and not on the Sabbath day."