'Nations' in the Bible

Land of Zebulun and land of Naphtali, way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations! --

And -- praying -- ye may not use vain repetitions like the nations, for they think that in their much speaking they shall be heard,

for all these do the nations seek for, for your heavenly Father doth know that ye have need of all these;

Jesus sent out these 12 after giving them instructions: “Don’t take the road leading to other nations, and don’t enter any Samaritan town.

You will even be brought before governors and kings because of Me, to bear witness to them and to the nations.

Here is My Servant whom I have chosen,My beloved in whom My soul delights;I will put My Spirit on Him,and He will proclaim justice to the nations.

The nations will put their hope in His name.

But if he will not listen to them, tell it to the assembly; and if also he will not listen to the assembly, let him be to thee as one of the nations and a tax-gatherer.

and they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him to the nations to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify, and the third day he will rise again.'

and Jesus having called them near, said, 'Ye have known that the rulers of the nations do exercise lordship over them, and those great do exercise authority over them,

Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.

And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.

And then the sign of the Son of man will be seen in heaven: and then all the nations of the earth will have sorrow, and they will see the Son of man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:

Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: