'People' in the Bible

She will give birth to a son, and you are to name Him Jesus, because He will save His people from their sins.”

So he assembled all the chief priests and scribes of the people and asked them where the Messiah would be born.

And you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah,are by no means least among the leaders of Judah:because out of you will come a leaderwho will shepherd My people Israel.”

Then people from Jerusalem, all Judea, and all the vicinity of the Jordan were flocking to him,

The people who live in darknesshave seen a great light,and for those living in the shadowland of death,light has dawned.

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

Jesus was going all over Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom, and healing every disease and sickness among the people.

Therefore, whoever breaks one of the least of these commands and teaches people to do so will be called least in the kingdom of heaven. But whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

“Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of people, to be seen by them. Otherwise, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.

So whenever you give to the poor, don’t sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be applauded by people. I assure you: They’ve got their reward!

“Whenever you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites, because they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by people. I assure you: They’ve got their reward!

“For if you forgive people their wrongdoing, your heavenly Father will forgive you as well.

But if you don’t forgive people, your Father will not forgive your wrongdoing.

“Whenever you fast, don’t be sad-faced like the hypocrites. For they make their faces unattractive so their fasting is obvious to people. I assure you: They’ve got their reward!

so that you don’t show your fasting to people but to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

Because people will hand you over to sanhedrins and flog you in their synagogues, beware of them.

Because of this, I tell you, people will be forgiven every sin and blasphemy, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven.

I tell you that on the day of judgment people will have to account for every careless word they speak.

For I assure you: Many prophets and righteous people longed to see the things you see yet didn’t see them; to hear the things you hear yet didn’t hear them.

But while people were sleeping, his enemy came, sowed weeds among the wheat, and left.

So it will be at the end of the age. The angels will go out, separate the evil people from the righteous,

These people honor Me with their lips,but their heart is far from Me.

When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, He asked His disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?”

Then Jesus said, “Leave the children alone, and don’t try to keep them from coming to Me, because the kingdom of heaven is made up of people like this.”

When He entered the temple complex, the chief priests and the elders of the people came up to Him as He was teaching and said, “By what authority are You doing these things? Who gave You this authority?”

greetings in the marketplaces, and to be called ‘Rabbi’ by people.

“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You lock up the kingdom of heaven from people. For you don’t go in, and you don’t allow those entering to go in.

Blind people! For which is greater, the gift or the altar that sanctifies the gift?

In the same way, on the outside you seem righteous to people, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

Then the chief priests and the elders of the people assembled in the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,

“Not during the festival,” they said, “so there won’t be rioting among the people.”

While He was still speaking, Judas, one of the Twelve, suddenly arrived. A large mob, with swords and clubs, was with him from the chief priests and elders of the people.

When daybreak came, all the chief priests and the elders of the people plotted against Jesus to put Him to death.

All the people answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!”

Therefore give orders that the tomb be made secure until the third day. Otherwise, His disciples may come, steal Him, and tell the people, ‘He has been raised from the dead.’ Then the last deception will be worse than the first.”

So they took the money and did as they were instructed. And this story has been spread among Jewish people to this day.

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!”

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

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?”

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

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

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.”

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.

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.

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.

but many saw them leaving and recognized them. People ran there by land from all the towns and arrived ahead of them.

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.

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

He answered them, “Isaiah prophesied correctly about you hypocrites, as it is written:These people honor Me with their lips,but their heart is far from Me.

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

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

Then He commanded the crowd to sit down on the ground. Taking the seven loaves, He gave thanks, broke the loaves, and kept on giving them to His disciples to set before the people. So they served the loaves to the crowd.

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?”

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

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

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

Sitting across from the temple treasury, He watched how the crowd dropped money into the treasury. Many rich people were putting in large sums.

“Not during the festival,” they said, “or there may be rioting among the people.”

At the festival it was Pilate’s custom to release for the people a prisoner they requested.

At the hour of incense the whole assembly of the people was praying outside.

And he will go before Himin the spirit and power of Elijah,to turn the hearts of fathersto their children,and the disobedientto the understanding of the righteous,to make ready for the Lord a prepared people.

Meanwhile, the people were waiting for Zechariah, amazed that he stayed so long in the sanctuary.

“The Lord has done this for me. He has looked with favor in these days to take away my disgrace among the people.”

Praise the Lord, the God of Israel,because He has visitedand provided redemption for His people.

to give His people knowledge of salvationthrough the forgiveness of their sins.

But the angel said to them, “Don’t be afraid, for look, I proclaim to you good news of great joy that will be for all the people:

Glory to God in the highest heaven,and peace on earth to people He favors!

a light for revelation to the Gentilesand glory to Your people Israel.

And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and with people.

Now the people were waiting expectantly, and all of them were debating in their minds whether John might be the Messiah.

Then, along with many other exhortations, he proclaimed good news to the people.

When all the people were baptized, Jesus also was baptized. As He was praying, heaven opened,

and so were James and John, Zebedee’s sons, who were Simon’s partners.“Don’t be afraid,” Jesus told Simon. “From now on you will be catching people!”

After coming down with them, He stood on a level place with a large crowd of His disciples and a great number of people from all Judea and Jerusalem and from the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon.

You are blessed when people hate you,when they exclude you, insult you,and slander your name as evilbecause of the Son of Man.

Woe to youwhen all people speak well of you,for this is the way their ancestorsused to treat the false prophets.

When He had concluded all His sayings in the hearing of the people, He entered Capernaum.

Then fear came over everyone, and they glorified God, saying, “A great prophet has risen among us,” and “God has visited His people.”

At that time Jesus healed many people of diseases, plagues, and evil spirits, and He granted sight to many blind people.

(And when all the people, including the tax collectors, heard this, they acknowledged God’s way of righteousness, because they had been baptized with John’s baptism.

“To what then should I compare the people of this generation, and what are they like?

As a large crowd was gathering, and people were flocking to Him from every town, He said in a parable:

Then people went out to see what had happened. They came to Jesus and found the man the demons had departed from, sitting at Jesus’ feet, dressed and in his right mind. And they were afraid.

Then all the people of the Gerasene region asked Him to leave them, because they were gripped by great fear. So getting into the boat, He returned.

When the woman saw that she was discovered, she came trembling and fell down before Him. In the presence of all the people, she declared the reason she had touched Him and how she was instantly cured.

“You give them something to eat,” He told them.“We have no more than five loaves and two fish,” they said, “unless we go and buy food for all these people.”

For just as Jonah became a sign to the people of Nineveh, so also the Son of Man will be to this generation.

“Woe to you! You are like unmarked graves; the people who walk over them don’t know it.”

Then He said: “Woe also to you experts in the law! You load people with burdens that are hard to carry, yet you yourselves don’t touch these burdens with one of your fingers.

But I will show you the One to fear: Fear Him who has authority to throw people into hell after death. Yes, I say to you, this is the One to fear!

You must be like people waiting for their master to return from the wedding banquet so that when he comes and knocks, they can open the door for him at once.

At that time, some people came and reported to Him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.

Or those 18 that the tower in Siloam fell on and killed—do you think they were more sinful than all the people who live in Jerusalem?