'Us' in the Bible

Since many people have attempted to write an orderly account of the events that have transpired among us,

just as they were passed down to us by those who had been eyewitnesses and servants of the word from the beginning,

He has raised up a mighty Savior for us from the family of his servant David,

that he would save us from our enemies and from the grip of all who hate us.

He granted us deliverance from our enemies' grip so that we could serve him without fear

Because of the tender mercy of our God, his light from on high has visited us,

When the angels had left them and gone back to heaven, the shepherds told one another, "Let's go to Bethlehem and see what has taken place that the Lord has told us about."

When Jesus' parents saw him, they were shocked. His mother asked him, "Son, why have you treated us like this? Your father and I have been worried sick looking for you!"

"Oh, no! What do you want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are the Holy One of God!"

because he loves our people and built our synagogue for us."

Fear gripped everyone, and they began to praise God. "A great prophet has appeared among us," they said, and "God has helped his people."

When the men had come to Jesus, they said, "John the Baptist has sent us to you to ask, "Are you the Coming One, or should we wait for someone else?'"

John said, "Master, we saw someone driving out demons in your name. We tried to stop him, because he wasn't a follower like us."

When his disciples James and John observed this rejection, they asked, "Lord, do you want us to call fire down from heaven to destroy them?"

The 70 disciples came back and joyously reported, "Lord, even the demons are submitting to us in your name!"

Once Jesus was praying in a certain place. After he had finished, one of his disciples told him, "Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples."

Keep giving us every day our daily bread,

and forgive us our sins, as we forgive everyone who sins against us. And never bring us into temptation.'"

Suppose he answers from inside, "Stop bothering me! The door is already locked, and my children are here with us in the bedroom. I can't get up and give you anything!'

Then one of the experts in the Law told him, "Teacher, when you say these things, you insult us, too."

Peter asked, "Lord, are you telling this parable just for us or for everyone?"

After the homeowner gets up and closes the door, you can stand outside, knock on the door, and say again and again, "Lord, open the door for us!' But he will answer you, "I don't know where you come from.'

Besides all this, a wide chasm has been fixed between us, so that those who want to cross from this side to you cannot do so, nor can they cross from your side to us.'

Then the apostles told the Lord, "Give us more faith!"

and shouted, "Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!"

But the citizens of his country hated him and sent a delegation to follow him and to announce, "We don't want this man to rule over us!'

and asked him, "Tell us: By what authority are you doing these things, and who gave you this authority?"

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

Is it lawful for us to pay taxes to Caesar or not?"

and asked him, "Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies and leaves a wife but no child, the man should marry the widow and have children for his brother.

So Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, "Go and make preparations for us to eat the Passover meal."

They asked him, "Where do you want us to prepare it?"

Then he will show you a large upstairs room that is furnished. Get things ready for us there."

They said, "If you are the Messiah, tell us."

They began to accuse him, "We found this man corrupting our nation, forbidding us to pay taxes to Caesar, and saying that he is the Messiah, a king."

Neither does Herod, because he sent him back to us! Indeed, this man has done nothing to deserve death.

But they all shouted out together, "Away with this man! Release Barabbas for us!"

Then people will begin to say to the mountains, "Fall on us!', and to the hills, "Cover us up!'

Now one of the criminals hanging there kept insulting him, "You are the Messiah, aren't you? Save yourself"and us!"

Even some of our women have startled us by what they told us. They were at the tomb early this morning

and didn't find his body there, so they came back and told us that they had seen a vision of angels, who were saying that he was alive.

Then some of those who were with us went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said. However, they didn't see him."

But they strongly urged him, "Stay with us, because it is almost evening and the daylight is nearly gone." So he went in to stay with them.

Then they asked each other, "Our hearts kept burning within us as he was talking to us on the road and explaining the Scriptures to us, didn't they?"