'Land' in the Bible

And thou Bethlehem, in the land of Juda, art not the least among the princes of Juda: for out of thee shall come a Governor, that shall rule my people Israel.

Saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they are dead which sought the young child's life.

And he arose, and took the young child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel.

And in those days John the Baptist came preaching in the waste land of Judaea,

For this is he of whom Isaiah the prophet said, The voice of one crying in the waste land, Make ready the way of the Lord, make his roads straight.

Then Jesus was sent by the Spirit into the waste land to be tested by the Evil One.

The land of Zabulon, and the land of Nephthalim, by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles;

The people living in darkness have seen a great light, and for those living in the land and shadow of death, a light has risen."

Happy the meek -- because they shall inherit the land.

'Ye are the salt of the land, but if the salt may lose savour, in what shall it be salted? for nothing is it good henceforth, except to be cast without, and to be trodden down by men.

And the fame hereof went abroad into all that land.

but they, having gone forth, did spread his fame in all that land.

Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city.

And when they were going away, Jesus, talking of John, said to all the people, What went you out into the waste land to see? a tall stem moving in the wind?

But I say unto you, That it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for thee.

"So the farmer's men come and ask him, "'Sir, was it not good seed that you sowed on your land? Where then does the darnel come from?'

and Jesus having heard, withdrew thence in a boat to a desolate place by himself, and the multitudes having heard did follow him on land from the cities.

And when evening had come, the disciples came to him, saying, This place is waste land, and the time is now past; send the people away so that they may go into the towns and get themselves food.

But the boat was already over a mile from land, battered by the waves, because the wind was against them.

And when they were gone over, they came into the land of Gennesaret.

And everyone who has given up houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or child, or land, for my name, will be given a hundred times as much, and have eternal life.

But they made light of it, and went, one to his own land, and another to his commerce.

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.

If, then, they say to you, See, he is in the waste land; go not out: See, he is in the inner rooms; put no faith in it.

Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and all "the tribes of the land will mourn' when they see "the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven' with power and great glory.

Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.

The voice of one crying in the waste land, Make ready the way of the Lord, make his roads straight;

John came, and gave baptism in the waste land, preaching baptism as a sign of forgiveness of sin for those whose hearts were changed.

And there went out unto him all the land of Judaea, and they of Jerusalem, and were all baptized of him in the river of Jordan, confessing their sins.

And straight away the Spirit sent him out into the waste land.

And he was in the waste land for forty days, being tested by Satan; and he was with the beasts; and the angels took care of him.

But he went out, and made it public, giving an account of it everywhere, so that Jesus was no longer able to go openly into a town, but was outside in the waste land; and they came to him from every part.

And he began again to teach by the sea side: and there was gathered unto him a great multitude, so that he entered into a ship, and sat in the sea; and the whole multitude was by the sea on the land.

Of itself the land produces the crop-- first the blade, then the ear; afterwards the perfect grain is seen in the ear.

but many saw them leaving and recognized them. People ran there by land from all the towns and arrived ahead of them.

And at the end of the day, his disciples came to him and said, This place is waste land, and it is late:

And when even was come, the ship was in the midst of the sea, and he alone on the land.

And when they had passed over, they came into the land of Gennesaret, and drew to the shore.

Jesus said, "Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or land, for my sake, and for the sake of the Good News,

but he will receive one hundred times more now in this time, houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and land, with persecutions; and in the age to come eternal life.

And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.

And the child became tall, and strong in spirit; and he was living in the waste land till the day when he came before the eyes of Israel.

When Annas and Caiaphas were high priests, the word of the Lord came to John, the son of Zacharias, in the waste land.

As it says in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, The voice of one crying in the waste land, Make ready the way of the Lord, make his roads straight.

And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, came back from the Jordan, and was guided by the Spirit in the waste land

But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land;

and yet Elijah was sent to none of them, but only to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.

And he entered into one of the ships, which was Simon's, and prayed him that he would thrust out a little from the land. And he sat down, and taught the people out of the ship.

And when they had brought their ships to land, they forsook all, and followed him.

And when the men who were sent by John had gone away, he said to the people, about John, What did you go out into the waste land to see? a tall stem moving in the wind?

And when he went forth to land, there met him out of the city a certain man, which had devils long time, and ware no clothes, neither abode in any house, but in the tombs.

Then He told them a parable: “A rich man’s land was very productive.

And all began, without exception, to excuse themselves. The first said to him, I have bought land, and I must go out and see it; I pray thee hold me for excused.

It is neither fit for the land, nor yet for the dunghill; but men cast it out. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if one of them gets loose and goes away, will not let the ninety-nine be in the waste land by themselves, and go after the wandering one, till he sees where it is?

And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want.

Have not any of them come back to give glory to God, but only this one from a strange land?

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

And there shall be signs in sun, and moon, and stars, and on the land is distress of nations with perplexity, sea and billow roaring;

for as a snare it shall come on all those dwelling on the face of all the land,

It was now about noon, and darkness came over the whole land until three,

He said, I am the voice of one crying in the waste land, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said Isaiah the prophet.

As the snake was lifted up by Moses in the waste land, even so it is necessary for the Son of man to be lifted up:

After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judaea; and there he tarried with them, and baptized.

So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the piece of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.

Then they willingly received him into the ship: and immediately the ship was at the land whither they went.

Our fathers had the manna in the waste land, as the Writings say, He gave them bread from heaven.

Your fathers took the manna in the waste land--and they are dead.

So Jesus no longer went about publicly among the Jews, but went from there into the country near to the waste land, to a town named Ephraim, where he was for some time with the disciples.

And the other disciples came in a little ship; (for they were not far from land, but as it were two hundred cubits,) dragging the net with fishes.

As soon then as they were come to land, they saw a fire of coals there, and fish laid thereon, and bread.

Simon Peter went up, and drew the net to land full of great fishes, an hundred and fifty and three: and for all there were so many, yet was not the net broken.

(Now Judas Iscariot acquired a piece of land [indirectly] with the [money paid him as a] reward for his treachery, and falling headlong, his body burst open in the middle and all his intestines poured out.

All the people in Jerusalem learned about this, so in their own dialect—Aramaic—they called the piece of land Hakeldama, that is, Field of Blood.)

since none of them needed anything, because everyone who had land or houses would sell them and bring the money received for the things sold

Having land, sold it, and brought the money, and laid it at the apostles' feet.

But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?

While it remained unsold, was not the land your own? And when sold, was it not at your own disposal? How is it that you have cherished this design in your heart? It is not to men you have told this lie, but to God."

And Peter answered unto her, Tell me whether ye sold the land for so much? And she said, Yea, for so much.

And said unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall shew thee.

Then came he out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and dwelt in Charran: and from thence, when his father was dead, he removed him into this land, wherein ye now dwell.

God gave him no property here, not even a foot of land, yet he promised to give it to him and to his descendants after him as a permanent possession, even though he had no child.

And God spake on this wise, That his seed should sojourn in a strange land; and that they should bring them into bondage, and entreat them evil four hundred years.

Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.

Then fled Moses at this saying, and was a stranger in the land of Madian, where he begat two sons.

At the end of forty years, an angel came to him in the waste land of Sinai, in the flame of a burning thorn-tree.

He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.

This is the man who was in the church in the waste land with the angel who was talking to him in Sinai, and with our fathers; and to him were given the living words of God, so that he might give them to you.

Saying unto Aaron, Make us gods to go before us: for as for this Moses, which brought us out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.

But God was turned from them and let them give worship to the stars of heaven, as it says in the book of the prophets, Did you make offerings to me of sheep and oxen for forty years in the waste land, O house of Israel?

Our fathers had the Tent of witness in the waste land, as God gave orders to Moses to make it after the design which he had seen.

Our fathers also brought it in [with them into the land] with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations whom God drove out before our fathers, [and so it remained here] until the time of David,

Saul agreed with putting him to death.On that day a severe persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered throughout the land of Judea and Samaria.

Now those [believers] who had been scattered went from place to place preaching the word [the good news of salvation through Christ].

But an angel of the Lord said to Philip, Get up, and go to the south, to the road which goes from Jerusalem to Gaza, through the waste land.

And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they slew and hanged on a tree:

The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with an high arm brought he them out of it.

And for about forty years he put up with their ways in the waste land.

And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Chanaan, he divided their land to them by lot.

And after they had gone through the land of Phrygia and Galatia, the Holy Spirit did not let them take the word into Asia;