'People' in the Bible

Then people will say to you, 'Look, there he is!' or 'Look, here he is!' Do not go out or chase after them.

People were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage -- right up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.

Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot, people were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building;

I tell you, in that night there will be two people in one bed; one will be taken and the other left.

He said, "In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected people.

For a while he refused, but later on he said to himself, 'Though I neither fear God nor have regard for people,

The Pharisee stood and prayed about himself like this: 'God, I thank you that I am not like other people: extortionists, unrighteous people, adulterers -- or even like this tax collector.

Now people were even bringing their babies to him for him to touch. But when the disciples saw it, they began to scold those who brought them.

And immediately he regained his sight and followed Jesus, praising God. When all the people saw it, they too gave praise to God.

And when the people saw it, they all complained, "He has gone in to be the guest of a man who is a sinner."

While the people were listening to these things, Jesus proceeded to tell a parable, because he was near to Jerusalem, and because they thought that the kingdom of God was going to appear immediately.

Jesus was teaching daily in the temple courts. The chief priests and the experts in the law and the prominent leaders among the people were seeking to assassinate him,

but they could not find a way to do it, for all the people hung on his words.

Now one day, as Jesus was teaching the people in the temple courts and proclaiming the gospel, the chief priests and the experts in the law with the elders came up

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

But if we say, 'From people,' all the people will stone us, because they are convinced that John was a prophet."

Then he began to tell the people this parable: "A man planted a vineyard, leased it to tenant farmers, and went on a journey for a long time.

He will come and destroy those tenants and give the vineyard to others." When the people heard this, they said, "May this never happen!"

Then the experts in the law and the chief priests wanted to arrest him that very hour, because they realized he had told this parable against them. But they were afraid of the people.

Thus they were unable in the presence of the people to trap him with his own words. And stunned by his answer, they fell silent.

So Jesus said to them, "The people of this age marry and are given in marriage.

As all the people were listening, Jesus said to his disciples,

Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing their babies in those days! For there will be great distress on the earth and wrath against this people.

People will be fainting from fear and from the expectation of what is coming on the world, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

And all the people came to him early in the morning to listen to him in the temple courts.

The chief priests and the experts in the law were trying to find some way to execute Jesus, for they were afraid of the people.

When day came, the council of the elders of the people gathered together, both the chief priests and the experts in the law. Then they led Jesus away to their council

But they persisted in saying, "He incites the people by teaching throughout all Judea. It started in Galilee and ended up here!"

Then Pilate called together the chief priests, the rulers, and the people,

and said to them, "You brought me this man as one who was misleading the people. When I examined him before you, I did not find this man guilty of anything you accused him of doing.

A great number of the people followed him, among them women who were mourning and wailing for him.

The people also stood there watching, but the rulers ridiculed him, saying, "He saved others. Let him save himself if he is the Christ of God, his chosen one!"

He said to them, "What things?" "The things concerning Jesus the Nazarene," they replied, "a man who, with his powerful deeds and words, proved to be a prophet before God and all the people;

So he said to them, "You foolish people -- how slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!

He came to what was his own, but his own people did not receive him.

Now while Jesus was in Jerusalem at the feast of the Passover, many people believed in his name because they saw the miraculous signs he was doing.

But Jesus would not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people.

I tell you the solemn truth, we speak about what we know and testify about what we have seen, but you people do not accept our testimony.

If I have told you people about earthly things and you don't believe, how will you believe if I tell you about heavenly things?

Now this is the basis for judging: that the light has come into the world and people loved the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil.

John was also baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because water was plentiful there, and people were coming to him and being baptized.

Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you people say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem."

You people worship what you do not know. We worship what we know, because salvation is from the Jews.

But a time is coming -- and now is here -- when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such people to be his worshipers.

God is spirit, and the people who worship him must worship in spirit and truth."

Then the woman left her water jar, went off into the town and said to the people,

So Jesus said to him, "Unless you people see signs and wonders you will never believe!"

A great number of sick, blind, lame, and paralyzed people were lying in these walkways.

so that all people will honor the Son just as they honor the Father. The one who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.

And the Father who sent me has himself testified about me. You people have never heard his voice nor seen his form at any time,

"I do not accept praise from people,

Then Jesus, when he looked up and saw that a large crowd was coming to him, said to Philip, "Where can we buy bread so that these people may eat?"

"Here is a boy who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what good are these for so many people?"

Jesus said, "Have the people sit down." (Now there was a lot of grass in that place.) So the men sat down, about five thousand in number.

So they gathered them up and filled twelve baskets with broken pieces from the five barley loaves left over by the people who had eaten.

Now when the people saw the miraculous sign that Jesus performed, they began to say to one another, "This is certainly the Prophet who is to come into the world."

There was a lot of grumbling about him among the crowds. Some were saying, "He is a good man," but others, "He deceives the common people."

Then the Jewish leaders said to one another, "Where is he going to go that we cannot find him? He is not going to go to the Jewish people dispersed among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, is he?

Early in the morning he came to the temple courts again. All the people came to him, and he sat down and began to teach them.

Jesus answered, "Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, because I know where I came from and where I am going. But you people do not know where I came from or where I am going.

You people judge by outward appearances; I do not judge anyone.

Jesus replied, "You people are from below; I am from above. You people are from this world; I am not from this world.

While he was saying these things, many people believed in him.

You people are doing the deeds of your father." Then they said to Jesus, "We were not born as a result of immorality! We have only one Father, God himself."

You people are from your father the devil, and you want to do what your father desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

Jesus replied, "If I glorify myself, my glory is worthless. The one who glorifies me is my Father, about whom you people say, 'He is our God.'

Then the neighbors and the people who had seen him previously as a beggar began saying, "Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?"

Some people said, "This is the man!" while others said, "No, but he looks like him." The man himself kept insisting, "I am the one!"

He answered, "I told you already and you didn't listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You people don't want to become his disciples too, do you?"

Another sharp division took place among the Jewish people because of these words.

If those people to whom the word of God came were called 'gods' (and the scripture cannot be broken),

so many of the Jewish people of the region had come to Martha and Mary to console them over the loss of their brother.)

Then the people who were with Mary in the house consoling her saw her get up quickly and go out. They followed her, because they thought she was going to the tomb to weep there.

When Jesus saw her weeping, and the people who had come with her weeping, he was intensely moved in spirit and greatly distressed.

Thus the people who had come to mourn said, "Look how much he loved him!"

Then many of the people, who had come with Mary and had seen the things Jesus did, believed in him.

You do not realize that it is more to your advantage to have one man die for the people than for the whole nation to perish."

Now the Jewish feast of Passover was near, and many people went up to Jerusalem from the rural areas before the Passover to cleanse themselves ritually.

for on account of him many of the Jewish people from Jerusalem were going away and believing in Jesus.

"Do not be afraid, people of Zion; look, your king is coming, seated on a donkey's colt!"

And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself."

(Now it was Caiaphas who had advised the Jewish leaders that it was to their advantage that one man die for the people.)

Jesus replied, "I have spoken publicly to the world. I always taught in the synagogues and in the temple courts, where all the Jewish people assemble together. I have said nothing in secret.

Pilate answered, "I am not a Jew, am I? Your own people and your chief priests handed you over to me. What have you done?"

Jesus said to him, "Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are the people who have not seen and yet have believed."

In those days Peter stood up among the believers (a gathering of about one hundred and twenty people) and said,

And in the last days it will be,' God says, 'that I will pour out my Spirit on all people, and your sons and your daughters will prophesy, and your young men will see visions, and your old men will dream dreams.

So those who accepted his message were baptized, and that day about three thousand people were added.

praising God and having the good will of all the people. And the Lord was adding to their number every day those who were being saved.

All the people saw him walking and praising God,

While the man was hanging on to Peter and John, all the people, completely astounded, ran together to them in the covered walkway called Solomon's Portico.

When Peter saw this, he declared to the people, "Men of Israel, why are you amazed at this? Why do you stare at us as if we had made this man walk by our own power or piety?

Every person who does not obey that prophet will be destroyed and thus removed from the people.'

While Peter and John were speaking to the people, the priests and the commander of the temple guard and the Sadducees came up to them,

angry because they were teaching the people and announcing in Jesus the resurrection of the dead.

Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, replied, "Rulers of the people and elders,

let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, this man stands before you healthy.

And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved."

But to keep this matter from spreading any further among the people, let us warn them to speak no more to anyone in this name."

After threatening them further, they released them, for they could not find how to punish them on account of the people, because they were all praising God for what had happened.