'Man' in the Bible

Now this man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out.

For it is written in the book of Psalms, Let his habitation be desolate, and let no man dwell therein: and his bishoprick let another take.

Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language.

And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?

Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know:

After he was arrested according to the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified this very man and killed him using the hands of lawless men.

And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.

And a certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple;

So the man watched them closely, expecting to get something from them.

they knew that he was the man who used to sit and beg at the Beautiful Gate of the Temple, and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.

And as the lame man which was healed held Peter and John, all the people ran together unto them in the porch that is called Solomon's, greatly wondering.

And when Peter saw it, he answered unto the people, Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this? or why look ye so earnestly on us, as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk?

and ye the Holy and Righteous One did deny, and desired a man -- a murderer -- to be granted to you,

And his name through faith in his name hath made this man strong, whom ye see and know: yea, the faith which is by him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.

whom heaven must keep until the time for the [complete] restoration of all things about which God promised through the mouth of His holy prophets from ancient time.

If we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by what means he is made whole;

Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole.

And beholding the man which was healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it.

But that it spread no further among the people, let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name.

For the man was above forty years old, on whom this miracle of healing was shewed.

And, in fact, there was not a needy man among them, for all who were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the money which they realised,

And laid them down at the apostles' feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.

One man, Joseph, a descendant of Levi and a native of Cyprus, who was named Barnabas by the apostles (the name means "a son of encouragement"),

But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession,

And of the rest durst no man join himself to them: but the people magnified them.

Saying, The prison truly found we shut with all safety, and the keepers standing without before the doors: but when we had opened, we found no man within.

But someone came and told them, “The men whom you put in prison are standing [right here] in the temple [area], teaching the people!”

saying, 'Did not we strictly command you not to teach in this name? and lo, ye have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and ye intend to bring upon us the blood of this man.'

But Peter and the Apostles, answering, said, We have to do the orders of God, not of man.

God exalted this man to His right hand as ruler and Savior, to grant repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.

But a certain man, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law, held in honour of all the people, rose up in the council, and commanded to put the men out for a short while,

After this man rose up Judas of Galilee in the days of the taxing, and drew away much people after him: he also perished; and all, even as many as obeyed him, were dispersed.

And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch:

Then they secretly instigated some men to say, "We have heard this man speaking blasphemous words against Moses and God."

And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law:

This man deceitfully took advantage of our people [and] mistreated our ancestors, {causing them to abandon their infants} so that they would not be kept alive.

So Moses learned all the wisdom of the Egyptians and became a great man, both in words and in deeds.

When he saw one of them being mistreated, he came to his rescue and avenged the oppressed man by striking down the Egyptian.

"But the man who was harming his neighbor pushed Moses away and said, "Who made you ruler and judge over us?

When the man said this, Moses fled and became a foreigner in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.

"This same Moses whom they rejected by saying, "Who made you ruler and judge?' was the man whom God sent to be both their ruler and deliverer with the help of the angel who had appeared to him in the bush.

This man led them out and performed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and in the wilderness 40 years.

This is the man who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him at Mount Sinai, and with our ancestors, and he received living oracles to give to you.

And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.

They threw him out of the city and began to stone him. And the witnesses laid their robes at the feet of a young man named Saul.

But there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one:

To whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is the great power of God.

And he arose and went: and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem for to worship,

So Philip ran up to it and heard the man reading Isaiah the prophet. He asked him, "Do you understand what you're reading?"

And he said, How can I, except some man should guide me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him.

Now the passage of scripture the man was reading was this: "He was led like a sheep to slaughter, and like a lamb before its shearer is silent, so he did not open his mouth.

And the eunuch answered Philip, and said, I pray thee, of whom speaketh the prophet this? of himself, or of some other man?

And the men which journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing a voice, but seeing no man.

And Saul arose from the earth; and when his eyes were opened, he saw no man: but they led him by the hand, and brought him into Damascus.

“Get up and go to the street called Straight,” the Lord said to him, “to the house of Judas, and ask for a man from Tarsus named Saul, since he is praying there.

And hath seen in a vision a man named Ananias coming in, and putting his hand on him, that he might receive his sight.

Then Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard by many of this man, how much evil he hath done to thy saints at Jerusalem:

But the Lord said to him, “Go! For this man is My chosen instrument to take My name to Gentiles, kings, and the Israelites.

and immediately he began to proclaim Jesus in the synagogues, saying, "This man is the Son of God."

But all who heard him were astounded and said, “Isn’t this the man who, in Jerusalem, was destroying those who called on this name and then came here for the purpose of taking them as prisoners to the chief priests?”

But Saul grew more and more persuasive, and continued to confound the Jews who lived in Damascus by proving that this man was the Messiah.

And there he found a certain man named AEneas, which had kept his bed eight years, and was sick of the palsy.

So Peter stayed many days in Joppa with a man named Simon, a tanner.

There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian band,

A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway.

Now dispatch some men to Joppa and send for a man named Simon, who is also called Peter;

This man is staying as a guest with a man named Simon, a tanner, whose house is by the sea."

And when the angel who said these words to him had gone away, he sent for two of his house-servants, and a God-fearing man of the army, one of those who were waiting on him at all times;

So Peter went to the men and said, "I'm the man you're looking for. Why are you here?"

And they said, Cornelius the centurion, a just man, and one that feareth God, and of good report among all the nation of the Jews, was warned from God by an holy angel to send for thee into his house, and to hear words of thee.

But Peter took him up, saying, Stand up; I myself also am a man.

And he said unto them, Ye know how that it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company, or come unto one of another nation; but God hath shewed me that I should not call any man common or unclean.

And Cornelius said, Four days ago I was fasting until this hour; and at the ninth hour I prayed in my house, and, behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing,

Therefore send to Joppa and summon Simon, who is called Peter. This man is staying as a guest in the house of Simon the tanner, by the sea.'

Then Peter began to speak. "I clearly see," he said, "that God makes no distinctions between one man and another;

but in every nation the man who fears Him and does what is right is welcome to Him.

He has sent his word to the descendants of Israel and brought them the good news of peace through Jesus the Messiah. This man is the Lord of everyone.

God raised up this man on the third day and permitted Him to be seen,

Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we?

The Spirit told me to go with them without hesitating. These six brothers went with me, too, and we entered the house of the man from Caesarea.

For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith: and much people was added unto the Lord.

Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief unto the brethren which dwelt in Judaea:

And the people gave a shout, saying, It is the voice of a god, and not of a man.

And having passed through the whole island as far as Paphos, they found a certain man a magician, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Bar-jesus,

Which was with the deputy of the country, Sergius Paulus, a prudent man; who called for Barnabas and Saul, and desired to hear the word of God.

But Elymas the sorcerer (for that is how his name is translated) opposed them, trying to turn the proconsul away from accepting the faith.

And afterward they desired a king: and God gave unto them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty years.

And when he had removed him, he raised up unto them David to be their king; to whom also he gave testimony, and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfil all my will.

From the descendants of this man, according to promise, God has brought to Israel a Savior, Jesus,

However, the man whom God raised did not experience decay.

Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins:

Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you.

And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked:

This man heard Paul speaking, who, fixing his eyes on him, and seeing that he had faith to be healed,

he said in a loud voice, "Stand up straight on your feet!" Then the man jumped up and began to walk.

But Paul did not think it appropriate to take along this man who had deserted them in Pamphylia and had not gone on with them to the work.

Paul wanted this man to go with him, so he took him and had him circumcised because of the Jews who lived in that region, since everyone knew that Timothy's father was a Greek.

And a vision appeared to Paul in the night; There stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us.

From one man He has made every nationality to live over the whole earth and has determined their appointed times and the boundaries of where they live.

'Being, therefore, offspring of God, we ought not to think the Godhead to be like to gold, or silver, or stone, graving of art and device of man;