'One' in the Bible

Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath.

But the Lord answered and said to him, "Hypocrites! Does not each one of you untie his ox or [his] donkey from the feeding trough on the Sabbath and lead [it] away to water [it]?

"Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How many times I wanted to gather your children together {the way} a hen [gathers] her own brood under [her] wings, and you were not willing!

Behold, your house has been left to you! And I tell you, you will never see me until [the time] will come when you say, 'Blessed [is] the one who comes in the name of the Lord!'"

And it happened that when he came to the house of a certain one of the leaders of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat {a meal}, they were watching him closely.

and the one who invited you {both} will come [and] say to you, 'Give the place to this person,' and then with shame you will begin to take the last place.

But when you are invited, go [and] recline at the table in the last place, so that when the one who invited you comes, he will say to you, 'Friend, move up higher.' Then it will be an honor to you in the presence of all those who are reclining at the table with you.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted."

And he also said to the one who had invited him, "When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or wealthy neighbors, lest they also invite you [in return], and repayment come to you.

Now [when] one of those reclining at the table with [him] heard these [things], he said to him, "Blessed [is] {everyone who} will eat bread in the kingdom of God!"

Or what king, going out to engage another king in battle, does not sit down first [and] deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand to oppose the one coming against him with twenty thousand.

In the [same] way, therefore, every [one] of you who does not renounce all his own possessions {cannot be} my disciple.

It is usable neither for the soil nor for the manure pile; they throw it out. The one who has ears to hear, let him hear!"

"What man of you, having a hundred sheep and losing one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the grassland and go after the one that was lost until he finds it?

I tell you that in the [same] way, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous people who have no need of repentance.

Or what woman who has ten drachmas, if she loses one drachma, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and search carefully until she finds [it]?

In the [same] way, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents."

And he went [and] hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to tend pigs.

And he was longing to fill his stomach with the carob pods that the pigs were eating, and no one was giving [anything] to him.

I am no longer worthy to be called your son! Make me like one of your hired workers.'

And he summoned one of the slaves [and] asked what these [things] meant.

And he summoned each one of his own master's debtors [and] said to the first, 'How much do you owe my master?'

"The one who [is] faithful in very little is also faithful in much, and the one who [is] dishonest in very little is also dishonest in much.

No domestic slave is able to serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and will despise the other. You are not able to serve God and money."

But it is easier [for] heaven and earth to pass away than [for] one stroke of a letter of the law to become invalid.

"Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and the one who marries a woman divorced from [her] husband commits adultery.

It would be better for him if {a millstone} is placed around his neck and he is thrown into the sea than that he causes one of these little ones to sin.

But one of them, [when he] saw that he was healed, turned back, praising God with a loud voice.

Was no one found to turn back [and] give praise to God except this foreigner?"

And he said to the disciples, "Days will come when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see [it].

For just as the lightning shines forth, flashing from [one place] under heaven to [another place] under heaven, so the Son of Man will be in his day.

On that day, whoever is on the housetop and his goods [are] in the house must not come down to take them away. And likewise the one who [is] in the field must not turn back

I tell you that in that night there will be two in one bed; one will be taken and the other will be left.

There will be two [women] grinding at the same [place]; one will be taken and the other will be left."

"Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.

I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than that one! For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted."

And Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one [is] good except God alone.

And [when he] heard [this], Jesus said to him, "{You still lack one thing}: Sell all that you have, and distribute [the proceeds] to the poor--and you will have treasure in heaven--and come, follow me."

And he said to them, "Truly I say to you that there is no one who has left house or wife or brothers or parents or children on account of the kingdom of God,

So he said to this one also, 'And you be over five cities.'

And to the bystanders he said, 'Take away from him the mina and give [it] to the one who has the ten minas!'

'I tell you that to everyone who has, [more] will be given. But from the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken away.

saying, "Blessed [is] the king, the one who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!"

And it happened that on one of the days [while] he was teaching the people in the temple [courts] and proclaiming the gospel, the chief priests and the scribes approached together with the elders

and said, saying to him, "Tell us, by what authority you are doing these [things], or who is the one who gave you this authority?

And they discussed [this] with one another, saying, "If we say 'From heaven,' he will say, 'Why did you not believe him?'

And he proceeded to send another slave, but they beat and dishonored that one also, [and] sent [him] away empty-handed.

And he proceeded to send a third, but they wounded [and] threw out this one also.

But [when] the tenant farmers saw him, they began to reason with one another, saying, 'This is the heir. Let us kill him so that the inheritance will become ours!'

Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, and [the one] on whom it falls--it will crush him!"

"[As for] these [things] that you see--days will come in which not [one] stone will be left on [another] stone that will not be thrown down!"

And Satan entered into Judas, the one called Iscariot, who was of the number of the twelve.

"But behold, the hand of the one who is betraying me [is] with me on the table!

And they began to debate with one another who then of them it could be who was going to do this.

But you [are] not [to be] like this! But the one who is greatest among you must become like the youngest, and the one who leads like the one who serves.

For who [is] greater, the one who reclines at the table or the one who serves? [Is it] not the one who reclines at the table? But I am in your midst as the one who serves.

And he said to them, "But now the one who has a money bag must take [it], and likewise a traveler's bag. And the one who does not have a sword must sell his cloak and buy [one].

[While] he was still speaking, behold, [there came] a crowd, and the one named Judas, one of the twelve, leading them. And he approached Jesus to kiss him.

And a certain one of them struck the slave of the high priest and cut off his right ear.

And after a short time another person saw him [and] said, "You also are [one] of them!" But Peter said, "Man, I am not!"

And [after] about one hour had passed, someone else was insisting, saying, "In truth this man also was with him, because he is also a Galilean!"

and [after] blindfolding him they repeatedly asked [him], saying, "Prophesy! Who is the one who struck you?"

And both Herod and Pilate became friends with one another on [that] same day, {for they had previously been enemies of one another}.

[and] said to them, "You brought me this man as one who was misleading the people, and behold, [when I] examined [him] before you, I found nothing in this man as basis for the accusation which {you are making} against him

And he released the one who had been thrown into prison because of insurrection and murder, whom they were asking for, but Jesus he handed over to their will.

And when they came to the place that is called "The Skull," there they crucified him, and the criminals, the one on [his] right and the other on [his] left.

And the people stood there watching, but the rulers also ridiculed [him], saying, "He saved others; let him save himself, if this [man] is the Christ of God, the Chosen One!"

And one of the criminals who were hanged there reviled him, saying, "Are you not the Christ? Save yourself--and us!"

And he took [it] down [and] wrapped it in a linen cloth and placed him in a tomb cut into the rock where no one had ever been placed.

and they were conversing with one another about all these [things] that had happened.

And he said to them, "What [are] these matters that you are discussing with one another [as you] are walking along?" And they stood still, looking sad.

And one [of them], {named} Cleopas, answered [and] said to him, "[Are] you the only one living near Jerusalem and not knowing the things that have happened in it in these days?"

But we were hoping that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel. But in addition to all these [things], this [is] the third day {since} these [things] took place.

And they said to one another, "Were not our hearts burning within us while he was speaking with us on the road, while he was explaining the scriptures to us?"

This one was in the beginning with God.

All [things] came into being through him, and apart from him not one [thing] came into being that has come into being.

This one came for a witness, in order that he could testify about the light, so that all would believe through him.

That one was not the light, but [came] in order that he could testify about the light.

And the Word became flesh and took up residence among us, and we saw his glory, glory as of the one and only from the Father, full of grace and truth.

John testified about him and cried out, saying, "This one was [he about] whom I said, 'The one who comes after me is ahead of me, because he existed before me.'"

No one has seen God at any time; the one and only, God, the one who is in the bosom of the Father--that one has made [him] known.

He said, "I [am] 'the voice of one crying out in the wilderness, "Make straight the way of the Lord," ' just as Isaiah the prophet said."

John answered them, saying, "I baptize with water. In your midst stands [one] whom you do not know--

the one who comes after me, of whom I am not worthy {to untie} the strap of his sandal!"

This one is [the one] about whom I said, 'After me is coming a man who is ahead of me, because he existed before me.'

And I did not know him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water, that one said to me, '[The one] upon whom you see the Spirit descending and remaining upon him--this one is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.'

And I have seen and testify that this one is the Chosen One of God.

Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, was one of the two who heard John and followed him.

This one first found his own brother Simon and said to him, "We have found the Messiah!" (which is translated "Christ").

Philip found Nathanael and said to him, "We have found [the one] whom Moses wrote [about] in the law, and the prophets wrote [about]--Jesus son of Joseph from Nazareth!"

This man came to him at night and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that [you are] a teacher who has come from God, for no one is able to perform these signs that you are performing unless God were with him."

And no one has ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven--the Son of Man.

For in this way God loved the world, so that he gave his one and only Son, in order that everyone who believes in him will not perish, but will have eternal life.

The one who believes in him is not judged, but the one who does not believe has already been judged, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.

But the one who practices the truth comes to the light, in order that his deeds may be revealed, that they are done in God.

And they came to John and said to him, "Rabbi, he who was with you on the other side of the Jordan, about whom you testified--look, this one is baptizing, and all are coming to him!"

John answered and said, "A man can receive not one [thing] unless it is granted to him from heaven!

You yourselves testify about me that I said, 'I am not the Christ, but I am sent before that one.'

The one who has the bride is the bridegroom. But the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices {greatly} because of the bridegroom's voice. So this joy of mine is complete.

It is necessary for that one to increase, but [for] me to decrease."