'People' in the Bible

The whole Judean countryside and all the people of Jerusalem were flocking to him, and they were baptized by him in the Jordan River as they confessed their sins.

“Follow Me,” Jesus told them, “and I will make you fish for people!”

The people were utterly amazed at his teaching, because he was teaching them like one with authority, and not like their scribes.

All the people were so stunned that they kept saying to each other, "What is this? A new teaching with authority! He tells even the unclean spirits what to do, and they obey him!"

When evening came, after the sun had set, people started bringing to him everyone who was sick or possessed by demons.

Then He cured numbers of people who were ill with various diseases, and He drove out many demons; not allowing the demons to speak, because they knew who He was.

saying to him, “See that you tell no one anything [about this]; but go, show yourself to the priest and offer for your purification what Moses commanded, as proof to them [that you are really healed].”

But when the man left, he began to proclaim it freely. He spread the news so widely that Jesus could no longer enter a town openly, but had to stay out in deserted places. Still, people kept coming to him from everywhere.

So many people gathered together that there was no more room, not even in the doorway, and He was speaking the message to them.

when some people came and brought him a paralyzed man being carried by four men.

And when they were unable to get near him because of all the people, they got the roof uncovered where he was: and when it was broken up, they let down the bed on which the man was.

So the man got up, immediately picked up his mat, and went out in front of all of them. As a result, all of the people were amazed and began to glorify God as they kept on saying, "We have never seen anything like this!"

And he went out again by the seaside; and all the people came to him, and he gave them teaching.

When Jesus heard that, he told them, "Healthy people don't need a physician, but sick ones do. I did not come to call righteous people, but sinners."

Now John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. People came and asked Him, “Why do John’s disciples and the Pharisees’ disciples fast, but Your disciples do not fast?”

Then he told them, "The Sabbath was made for people, not people for the Sabbath.

The people watched Jesus closely to see whether he would heal him on the Sabbath, intending to accuse him of doing something wrong.

So he said to the man who had the withered hand, "Stand up among all these people."

Accordingly Jesus withdrew with His disciples to the Lake, and a vast crowd of people from Galilee followed Him;

And he made a request to his disciples to have a little boat ready for him, so that he might not be crushed by the people;

because he had healed so many people that everyone who had diseases kept crowding up against him in order to touch him.

But he sternly ordered them again and again not to tell people who he was.

And he went into a house. And the people came together again, so that they were not even able to take bread.

When His own people heard of this, they went out to take custody of Him; for they were saying, “He has lost His senses.”

I assure you: People will be forgiven for all sins and whatever blasphemies they may blaspheme.

Then looking at the people sitting around him, he said, "Here are my mother and my brothers!

And again he was teaching by the seaside. And a very great number of people had come to him, so that he got into a boat on the sea and took his seat; and all the people were on the land by the seaside.

Some people are like the seeds along the path, where the word is sown. When they hear it, Satan immediately comes and takes away the word that was sown in them.

Still others are like the seeds sown among the thorn bushes. These are the people who hear the word,

And he said to them, When the light comes in, do people put it under a vessel, or under the bed, and not on its table?

And going away from the people, they took him with them, as he was, in the boat. And other boats were with him.

The men who tended them ran off and reported it in the town and the countryside, and people went to see what had happened.

The people who had seen it told them what had happened to the demon-possessed man and the pigs.

But He would not let him; instead, He told him, “Go back home to your own people, and report to them how much the Lord has done for you and how He has had mercy on you.”

So he [obeyed and] went away and began to publicly proclaim in Decapolis [the region of the ten Hellenistic cities] all the great things that Jesus had done for him; and all the people were astonished.

And when Jesus was passed over again by ship unto the other side, much people gathered unto him: and he was nigh unto the sea.

And Jesus went with him; and much people followed him, and thronged him.

When she had news of the things which Jesus did, went among the people coming after him, and put her hand on his robe.

And straight away Jesus was conscious that power had gone out of him; and, turning to the people, he said, Who was touching my robe?

And his disciples said to him, You see the people round you on every side, and you say, Who was touching me?

While He was still speaking, people came from the synagogue leader’s house and said, “Your daughter is dead. Why bother the Teacher anymore?”

They came to the leader’s house, and He saw a commotion—people weeping and wailing loudly.

And when the Sabbath day had come, he was teaching in the Synagogue; and a number of people hearing him were surprised, saying, From where did this man get these things? and, What is the wisdom given to this man, and what are these works of power done by his hands?

So He was not able to do any miracles there, except that He laid His hands on a few sick people and healed them.

If any place does not welcome you and people refuse to listen to you, when you leave there, shake the dust off your feet as a testimony against them.”

So they went out and preached that people should repent.

And they were driving out many demons, anointing many sick people with olive oil, and healing them.

And King Herod heard of it, for His name had become well known; and people were saying, “John the Baptist has risen from the dead, and that is why these miraculous powers are at work in Him.”

An opportunity came during Herod's birthday celebration, when he gave a banquet for his top officials, military officers, and the most important people of Galilee.

He said to them, “Come away by yourselves to a remote place and rest for a while.” For many people were coming and going, and they did not even have time to eat.

And the people saw them departing, and many knew him, and ran afoot thither out of all cities, and outwent them, and came together unto him.

And Jesus, when he came out, saw much people, and was moved with compassion toward them, because they were as sheep not having a shepherd: and he began to teach them many things.

Then He instructed them to have all the people sit down in groups on the green grass.

Then He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, He blessed and broke the loaves. He kept giving them to His disciples to set before the people. He also divided the two fish among them all.

And straightway he constrained his disciples to get into the ship, and to go to the other side before unto Bethsaida, while he sent away the people.

He then bade the people farewell, and went away up the hill to pray.

As they got out of the boat, people immediately recognized Him.

and ran throughout that surrounding countryside and began to carry around on their mats those who were sick, to any place where they heard He was.

Wherever he went, whether into villages, towns, or farms, people would place their sick in the marketplaces and beg him to let them touch even the tassel of his garment, and everyone who touched it was healed.

(The Pharisees and indeed all the Jewish people don't eat unless they wash their hands properly, following the tradition of their elders.

He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

And when he had called all the people unto him, he said unto them, Hearken unto me every one of you, and understand:

And when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.

For from within, from the heart of people, come evil plans, sexual immoralities, thefts, murders,

Some people brought him a deaf man who also had a speech impediment. They begged him to lay his hand on him.

And he took him on one side from the people privately, and put his fingers into his ears, and he put water from his mouth on the man's tongue with his finger;

Jesus ordered the people not to tell anyone, but the more he kept ordering them, the more they kept spreading the news.

They were extremely astonished and said, “He has done everything well! He even makes deaf people hear, and people unable to speak, talk!”

In those days again, when there was a great mass of people and they had no food, he made his disciples come to him and said to them,

“I feel compassion for the crowd; they have been with Me now for three days and have nothing [left] to eat.

His disciples answered Him, “Where can anyone get enough bread here in this desolate place to fill these people?”

And he commanded the people to sit down on the ground: and he took the seven loaves, and gave thanks, and brake, and gave to his disciples to set before them; and they did set them before the people.

And they had some small fishes; and blessing them he had them put before the people in the same way.

The people ate and were filled. Then the disciples picked up the leftover pieces seven large baskets full.

Now about 4,000 men were there. Then he sent them on their way.

As they came to Bethsaida, some people brought a blind man to Jesus and begged him to touch him.

He looked up and said, “I see people—they look to me like trees walking.”

Jesus went out with His disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi. And on the road He asked His disciples, “Who do people say that I am?”

But turning around and seeing his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, "Get behind me, Satan, because you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but the things of people!"

And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

But I tell you that Elijah has come, yet people treated him just as they pleased, as it is written about him."

And when they came to the disciples, they saw a great mass of people about them, and scribes questioning them.

And straightway all the people, when they beheld him, were greatly amazed, and running to him saluted him.

When Jesus saw that the people came running together, he rebuked the foul spirit, saying unto him, Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee, come out of him, and enter no more into him.

And he arose from thence, and cometh into the coasts of Judaea by the farther side of Jordan: and the people resort unto him again; and, as he was wont, he taught them again.

Some people were bringing little children to Him so He might touch them, but His disciples rebuked them.

When Jesus saw this, he became furious and told them, "Let the little children come to me, and stop keeping them away, because the kingdom of God belongs to people like these.

And Jesus called them to himself [and] said to them, "You know that those who are considered to rule over the Gentiles lord it over them, and their [people] in high positions exercise authority over them.

because even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many people."

And they came to Jericho: and as he went out of Jericho with his disciples and a great number of people, blind Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, sat by the highway side begging.

Many people told him to keep quiet, but he was crying out all the more, “Have mercy on me, Son of David!”

Some people standing there said to them, "What are you doing, untying that colt?"

Many people spread their robes on the road, and others spread leafy branches cut from the fields.

And the scribes and chief priests heard it, and sought how they might destroy him: for they feared him, because all the people was astonished at his doctrine.

John's baptism -- was it from heaven or from people? Answer me."

But if we shall say, Of men; they feared the people: for all men counted John, that he was a prophet indeed.

And they sought to lay hold on him, but feared the people: for they knew that he had spoken the parable against them: and they left him, and went their way.

And [when they] came, they said to him, "Teacher, we know that you are truthful and {you do not care what anyone thinks}, {because you do not regard the opinion of people} but teach the way of God in truth. Is it permitted to pay taxes to Caesar or not? Should we pay or should we not pay?"

When people rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage but are like the angels in heaven.

David therefore himself calleth him Lord; and whence is he then his son? And the common people heard him gladly.