'Living' in the Bible

In that region there were shepherds living in the fields, watching their flock during the night.

Jesus continued, "To what may I compare the people living today?

Now as the crowds continued to throng around Jesus, he went on to say, "This people living today are an evil generation. It craves a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah,

The queen of the south will stand up at the judgment and condemn the people living today, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon. But look, something greater than Solomon is here!

The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment and condemn the people living today, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah. But look, something greater than Jonah is here!"

so those living today will be charged with the blood of all the prophets that was shed since the foundation of the world,

What about those eighteen people who were killed when the tower at Siloam fell on them? Do you think they were worse offenders than all the other people living in Jerusalem?

A few days later, the younger son gathered everything he owned and traveled to a distant country. There he wasted it all on wild living.

But first he must suffer a great deal and be rejected by those living today.

He is not the God of the dead, but of the living, because he considers all people to be alive to him."

While the women remained terrified, bowing their faces to the ground, the men asked them, "Why are you looking among the dead for someone who is living?