'Few' in the Bible
because narrow is the gate and contracted the road which leads to Life, and few are those who find it.
Then He said to His disciples, "The harvest is abundant, but the reapers are few;
And He performed but few mighty deeds there because of their want of faith.
"How many loaves have you?" Jesus asked. "Seven," they said, "and a few small fish."
And He could not do any miracle there, except that He laid His hands on a few who were out of health and cured them; and
They had also a few small fish. He blessed them, and He told His disciples to distribute these also.
And He addressed them thus: "The harvest is abundant, but the reapers are few: therefore entreat the Owner of the harvest to send out more reapers into His fields. And now go.
But he who had not been told it and yet did what deserved the scourge, will receive but few lashes. To whomsoever much has been given, from him much will be required; and to whom much has been entrusted, of him a larger amount will be demanded.
when some one asked Him, "Sir, are there but few who are to be saved?"
But a Pharisee of the name of Gamaliel, a teacher of the Law, held in honour by all the people, rose from his seat and requested that they should be sent outside the court for a few minutes.
And, after a few days, He appeared to the people who had gone up with Him from Galilee to Jerusalem and are now witnesses concerning Him to the Jews.
Some of the people were won over, and attached themselves to Paul and Silas, including many God-fearing Greeks and not a few gentlewomen of high rank.
As the result many of them became believers, and so did not a few of the Greeks--gentlewomen of good position, and men.
A few of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also encountered him. Some of them asked, "What has this beggarly babbler to say?" "His business," said others, "seems to be to cry up some foreign gods." This was because he had been telling the Good News of Jesus and the Resurrection.
A few, however, attached themselves to him and believed, among them being Dionysius a member of the Council, a gentlewoman named Damaris, and some others.
During the stay of Apollos in Corinth, Paul, after passing through the inland districts, came to Ephesus, where he found a few disciples.
and not a few of those who had practised magical arts brought their books together and burnt them in the presence of all. The total value was reckoned and found to be 50,000 silver coins.
A few of the public officials, too, who were friendly to him, sent repeated messages entreating him not to venture into the Theatre.
A few days afterwards we loaded our baggage-cattle and continued our journey to Jerusalem.
He instantly sent for a few soldiers and their officers, and came down among the people with all speed. At the sight of the Tribune and the troops they ceased beating Paul.
Now when it was decided that we should sail for Italy, they handed over Paul and a few other prisoners into the custody of Julius, a Captain of the Augustan battalion;
Even as Isaiah says in an earlier place, "Were it not that the Lord, the God of Hosts, had left us some few descendants, we should have become like Sodom, and have come to resemble Gomorrah."
That is why many among you are sickly and out of health, and why not a few die.
just as some few of you have recognized us as your reason for boasting, even as you will be ours, on the day of Jesus our Lord.
It is true that they disciplined us for a few years according as they thought fit; but He does it for our certain good, in order that we may become sharers in His own holy character.
who in ancient times had been disobedient, while God's longsuffering was patiently waiting in the days of Noah during the building of the Ark, in which a few persons--eight in number--were brought safely through the water.
Yet I have a few things against you, because you have with you some that cling to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling-block in the way of the descendants of Israel--to eat what had been sacrificed to idols, and commit fornication.
Yet you have in Sardis a few who have not soiled their garments; and they shall walk with Me in white; for they are worthy.