'People' in the Bible

He came to his own creation, yet his own people did not receive him.

and told him, "Everyone serves the best wine first, and the cheap kind when people are drunk. But you have kept the best wine until now!"

In the Temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves, as well as moneychangers sitting at their tables.

While Jesus was in Jerusalem for the Passover Festival, many people believed in him because they saw the signs that he was doing.

Jesus, however, did not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people

and didn't need anyone to tell him what people were like, because he himself knew what was in every person.

Truly, I tell you emphatically, we know what we're talking about, and we testify about what we've seen. Yet you people do not accept our testimony.

If I have told you people about earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you about heavenly things?

And this is the basis for judgment: The light has come into the world, but people loved the darkness more than the light because their actions were evil.

John was also baptizing in Aenon, near Salim, because there was plenty of water there. People kept coming and were being baptized,

Our ancestors worshipped on this mountain. But you Jews say that the place where people should worship is in Jerusalem."

Yet the time is coming, and is now here, when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. Indeed, the Father is looking for people like that to worship him.

Then the woman left her water jar and went back to town. She told people,

The people left the town and started on their way to him.

Jesus told him, "Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will never believe."

and under these a large number of sick people were lying blind, lame, or paralyzed waiting for the movement of the water.

When Jesus looked up and saw that a large crowd was coming toward him, he asked Philip, "Where can we buy bread for these people to eat?"

"There's a little boy here who has five barley loaves and two small fish. But what are these among so many people?"

Jesus said, "Have the people sit down." Now there was plenty of grass in that area, so they sat down, numbering about 5,000 men.

When the people saw the sign that he had done, they kept saying, "Truly this is the Prophet who was to come into the world!"

Then some of the people of Jerusalem began saying, "This is the man they are trying to kill, isn't it?

At daybreak he appeared again in the Temple, and all the people came to him. So he sat down and began to teach them.

In your own Law it is written that the testimony of two people is valid.

Many people came to him and kept saying, "John never performed a sign, but everything that John said about this man is true!"

You don't realize that it is better for you to have one man die for the people than to have the whole nation destroyed."

Now the Jewish Passover was approaching, and before the Passover many people from the countryside went up to Jerusalem to purify themselves.

"Stop being afraid, people of Zion. Look, your king is coming, sitting upon a donkey's colt!"

At first, his disciples didn't understand these things. However, when Jesus had been glorified, they remembered that these things had been written about him and that people had done these things to him.

As for me, if I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw all people to myself."

Yet many people, even some of the authorities, believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they did not admit it so they would not be thrown out of the synagogue.

Unless a person abides in me, he is thrown away like a pruned branch and dries up. People gather such branches, throw them into a fire, and they are burned up.

Caiaphas was the person who had advised the Jews that it was better to have one man die for the people.

Why do you question me? Question those who heard what I said. These are the people who know what I said."

Meanwhile, Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. Some people asked him, "You aren't one of his disciples, too, are you?" He denied it by saying, "I am not!"