'One' in the Bible

One day--it was a Sabbath--He was taking a meal at the house of one of the Rulers of the Pharisee party, while they were closely watching Him.

"When any one invites you to a wedding banquet, do not take the best seat, lest perhaps some more honoured guest than you may have been asked,

After listening to this teaching, one of His fellow guests said to Him, "Blessed is he who shall feast in God's Kingdom."

For I tell you that not one of those who were invited shall taste my dinner.'"

"If any one is coming to me who does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes and his own life also, he cannot be a disciple of mine.

No one who does not carry his own cross and come after me can be a disciple of mine.

Or what king, marching to encounter another king in war, does not first sit down and deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand men to meet the one who is advancing against him with twenty thousand?

Just as no one of you who does not detach himself from all that belongs to him can be a disciple of mine.

Neither for land nor dunghill is it of any use; they throw it away. Listen, every one who has ears to listen with!"

"Which of you men, if he has a hundred sheep and has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in their pasture and go in search of the lost one till he finds it?

Then coming home he calls his friends and neighbours together, and says, 'Congratulate me, for I have found my sheep--the one I had lost.'

I tell you that in the same way there will be rejoicing in Heaven over one repentant sinner--more rejoicing than over ninety-nine blameless persons who have no need of repentance.

"Or what woman who has ten silver coins, if she loses one of them, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and search carefully till she finds it?

"I tell you that in the same way there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one repentant sinner."

So he went and hired himself to one of the inhabitants of that country, who sent him on to his farm to tend swine;

and he longed to make a hearty meal of the pods the swine were eating, but no one gave him any.

I no longer deserve to be called a son of yours: treat me as one of your hired men.'

"But the father said to his servants, "'Fetch a good coat quickly--the best one--and put it on him; and bring a ring for his finger and shoes for his feet.

Then he called one of the lads to him and asked what all this meant.

"So he called all his master's debtors, one by one, and asked the first, 'How much are you in debt to my master?'

The man who is honest in a very small matter is honest in a great one also; and he who is dishonest in a very small matter is dishonest in a great one also.

"No servant can be in bondage to two masters. For either he will hate one and love the other, or else he will cling fast to one and scorn the other. You cannot be bondservants both of God and of gold."

But it is easier for earth and sky to pass away than for one smallest detail of the Law to fall to the ground.

"'No, father Abraham,' he pleaded; 'but if some one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.'

"'If they are deaf to Moses and the Prophets,' replied Abraham, 'they would not be led to believe even if some one should rise from the dead.'"

It would be well for him if, with a millstone round his neck, he were lying at the bottom of the sea, rather than that he should cause even one of these little ones to fall.

One of them, seeing that he was cured, came back, adoring and praising God in a loud voice,

Then, turning to His disciples, He said, "There will come a time when you will wish you could see a single one of the days of the Son of Man, but will not see one.

For just as the lightning, when it flashes, shines from one part of the horizon to the opposite part, so will the Son of Man be on His day.

On that night, I tell you, there will be two men in one bed: one will be taken away and the other left behind.

There will be two women turning the mill together: one will be taken away and the other left behind."

"Two men went up to the Temple to pray," He said; "one being a Pharisee and the other a tax-gatherer.

"I tell you that this man went home more thoroughly absolved from guilt than the other; for every one who uplifts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be uplifted."

On one occasion people also brought with them their infants, for Him to touch them; but the disciples, noticing this, proceeded to find fault with them.

"Why do you call me good?" replied Jesus; "there is no one good but One, namely God.

On receiving this answer Jesus said to him, "There is still one thing wanting in you. Sell everything you possess and give the money to the poor, and you shall have wealth in Heaven; and then come, follow me."

"I solemnly tell you," replied Jesus, "that there is no one who has left house or wife, or brothers or parents or children, for the sake of God's Kingdom,

"So he said to this one also, "'And you, be the governor of five towns.'

"'I tell you that to every one who has anything, more shall be given; and from him who has not anything, even what he has shall be taken away.

saying to them, "Go into the village facing you. On entering it you will find an ass's foal tied up which no one has ever yet ridden: untie it, and bring it here.

And if any one asks you, 'Why are you untying the colt?' simply say, 'The Master needs it.'"

And they will dash thee to the ground and thy children within thee, and will not leave one stone upon another within thee; because thou hast not recognized the time of thy visitation."

On one of those days while He was teaching the people in the Temple and proclaiming the Good News, the High Priests came upon Him, and the Scribes,

So they debated the matter with one another. "If we say 'Heavenly,'" they argued, "he will say, 'Why did you not believe him?'

Then again he sent a third; and this one also they wounded and drove away.

"But when the vine-dressers saw him, they discussed the matter with one another, and said, "'This is the heir: let us kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.'

Every one who falls on that stone will be severely hurt, but on whomsoever it falls, he will be utterly crushed."

So they put a question to Him. "Rabbi," they said, "we know that you say and teach what is right and that you make no distinctions between one man and another, but teach God's way truly.

From that time, however, no one ventured to challenge Him with a single question.

"As to these things which you now admire, the time is coming when there will not be one stone left here upon another which will not be pulled down."

for I tell you that I certainly shall not eat one again till its full meaning has been brought out in the Kingdom of God."

Thereupon they began to discuss with one another which of them it could possibly be who was about to do this.

For which is the greater--he who sits at table, or he who waits on him? Is it not he who sits at table? But my position among you is that of one who waits on others.

"But now," said He, "let the one who has a purse take it, and he who has a bag must do the same. And let him who has no sword sell his outer garment and buy one.

While He was still speaking there came a crowd with Judas, already mentioned as one of the Twelve, at their head. He went up to Jesus to kiss Him.

And one of them struck a blow at the High Priest's servant and cut off his right ear.

Shortly afterwards a man saw him and said, "You, too, are one of them." "No, man, I am not," said Peter.

After an interval of about an hour some one else stoutly maintained: "Certainly this fellow also was with him, for in fact he is a Galilaean."

Thereupon they cried out with one voice, "You, then, are the Son of God?" "It is as you say," He answered; "I am He."

As soon as they led Him away, they laid hold on one Simon, a Cyrenaean, who was coming in from the country, and on his shoulders they put the cross, for him to carry it behind Jesus.

When they reached the place called 'The Skull,' there they nailed Him to the cross, and the criminals also, one at His right hand and one at His left.

and the people stood looking on. The Rulers, too, repeatedly uttered their bitter taunts. "This fellow," they said, "saved others: let him save himself, if he is God's Anointed, the Chosen One."

Now one of the criminals who had been crucified insulted Him, saying, "Are not you the Christ? Save yourself and us."

Then, taking it down, he wrapped it in a linen sheet and laid it in a tomb in the rock, where no one else had yet been put.

Then one of them, named Cleopas, answered, "Are you a stranger lodging alone in Jerusalem, that you have known nothing of the things that have lately happened in the city?"

"Were not our hearts," they said to one another, "burning within us while He talked to us on the way and explained the Scriptures to us?"

"I am the voice," he replied, "of one crying aloud, 'Make straight the Lord's way in the Desert,' fulfilling the words of the Prophet Isaiah."

"I baptize in water only," John answered, "but in your midst stands One whom you do not know--

This is He about whom I said, 'After me is to come One who has been put before me, because He was before me.'

I did not yet know Him, but He who sent me to baptize in water said to me, "'The One on whom you see the Spirit coming down, and remaining, He it is who baptizes in the Holy Spirit.'

Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, was one of the two who heard John's exclamation and followed Jesus.

He first found his own brother Simon, and said to him, "We have found the Messiah!" --that is to say, the Anointed One.

Now there was one of the Pharisees whose name was Nicodemus--a ruler among the Jews.

He came to Jesus by night and said, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher from God; for no one can do these miracles which you are doing, unless God is with him.

The wind blows where it chooses, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it is going. So is it with every one who has been born of the Spirit."

There is no one who has gone up to Heaven, but there is One who has come down from Heaven, namely the Son of Man whose home is in Heaven.

in order that every one who trusts in Him may have the Life of the Ages."

For so greatly did God love the world that He gave His only Son, that every one who trusts in Him may not perish but may have the Life of Ages.

What He has seen and heard, to that He bears witness; but His testimony no one receives.

"Every one," replied Jesus, "who drinks any of this water will be thirsty again;

You worship One of whom you know nothing. We worship One whom we know; for salvation comes from the Jews.

Just then His disciples came, and were surprised to find Him talking with a woman. Yet not one of them asked Him, "What is your wish?" or "Why are you talking with her?"

So the disciples began questioning one another. "Can it be," they said, "that some one has brought Him something to eat?"

For it is in this that you see the real meaning of the saying, 'The sower is one person, and the reaper is another.'

And there was one man there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.

"Sir," replied the sufferer, "I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is moved; but while I am coming some one else steps down before me."

The Father indeed does not judge any one, but He has entrusted all judgement to the Son,

I have come as my Father's representative, and you do not receive me. If some one else comes representing only himself, him you will receive.

How is it possible for you to believe, while you receive glory from one another and have no desire for the glory that comes from the only God?

"Do not suppose that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you, namely Moses, on whom your hope rests.

One of His disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, said to Him,

Next morning the crowd who were still standing about on the other side of the Lake found that there had been but one small boat there, and they had seen that Jesus did not go on board with His disciples, but that His disciples went away without Him.

Every one whom the Father gives me will come to me, and him who comes to me I will never on any account drive away.

For this is my Father's will, that every one who fixes his gaze on the Son of God and believes in Him should have the Life of the Ages, and I will raise him to life on the last day."

"no one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him; then I will raise him to life on the last day.

It stands written in the Prophets, 'And they shall all of them be taught by God'. Every one who listens to the Father and learns from Him comes to me.

No one has ever seen the Father--except Him who is from God. He has seen the Father.

So He added, "That is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it be granted him by the Father."

And we have come to believe and know that *you* are indeed the Holy One of God."

"Did not I choose you--the Twelve?" said Jesus, "and even of you one is a devil."