'People' in the Bible

Because of this it was necessary for him to be made like his brothers in every way, so that he might be a high priest full of mercy and keeping faith in everything to do with God, making offerings for the sins of the people.

So that there is still a Sabbath-keeping for the people of God.

And being feeble, he has to make sin-offerings for himself as well as for the people.

Now if it was possible for things to be made complete through the priests of the house of Levi (for the law was given to the people in connection with them), what need was there for another priest who was of the order of Melchizedek and not of the order of Aaron?

Who has no need to make offerings for sins every day, like those high priests, first for himself, and then for the people; because he did this once and for ever when he made an offering of himself.

For this is the agreement which I will make with the people of Israel after those days: I will put my laws into their minds, writing them in their hearts: and I will be their God, and they will be my people:

But only the high priest went into the second, once a year, not without making an offering of blood for himself and for the errors of the people:

For when Moses had given all the rules of the law to the people, he took the blood of goats and young oxen, with water and red wool and hyssop, and put it on the book itself and on all the people,

For the law, being only a poor copy of the future good things, and not the true image of those things, is never able to make the people who come to the altar every year with the same offerings completely clean.

For we have had experience of him who says, Punishment is mine, I will give reward. And again, The Lord will be judge of his people.

Feeling that it was better to undergo pain with the people of God, than for a short time to have a taste of the pleasures of sin;

For this reason Jesus was put to death outside the walls, so that he might make the people holy by his blood.