'Us' in the Bible

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?"

The Word became flesh and lived among us. We gazed on his glory, the kind of glory that belongs to the Father's unique Son, who is full of grace and truth.

"Who are you?" they asked him. "We must give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?"

"How does that concern us, dear lady?" Jesus asked her. "My time hasn't come yet."

Then the Jewish leaders asked him, "What sign can you show us as authority for doing these things?"

You're not greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it, along with his sons and his flocks, are you?"

Then they told him, "Sir, give us this bread all the time."

Then the Jewish leaders debated angrily with each other, asking, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"

Now in the Law, Moses commanded us to stone such women to death. What do you say?"

They asked him, "You were born a sinner and you are trying to instruct us?" And they threw him out.

So the Jewish leaders surrounded him and quizzed him, "How long are you going to keep us in suspense? If you're the Messiah, tell us so plainly."

Philip told him, "Lord, show us the Father, and that will satisfy us."

"Have I been with you all this time, Philip, and you still do not know me?" Jesus asked him. "The person who has seen me has seen the Father. So how can you say, "Show us the Father'?

Judas (not Iscariot) asked him, "Lord, how is it that you are going to reveal yourself to us and not to the world?"

But I'm doing what the Father has commanded me, to let the world know that I love the Father. Get up! Let us leave this place."

At this point, some of his disciples asked each other, "What does he mean by telling us, "In a little while you will no longer see me, then in a little while you will see me again,' and, "because I am going to the Father'?"

so that they may all be one. Just as you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be one in us, so that the world may believe that you sent me.

The Jewish leaders told him, "It is not legal for us to put anyone to death." This was to fulfill what Jesus had said when he indicated the kind of death he was to die.

who was one of the men associated with us all the time the Lord Jesus came and went among us,

beginning when he was baptized by John until the day he was taken up from us. Therefore, someone like this must become a witness with us to his resurrection."

Then they prayed, "Lord, you know the hearts of all people. Show us which one of these two men you have chosen

So how is it that each one of us hears them speaking in his own native language:

"Brothers, I can tell you confidently that the patriarch David died and was buried, and that his tomb is among us to this day.

Peter, along with John, looked him straight in the eye and said, "Look at us!"

When Peter saw this, he told the people: "Fellow Israelis, why are you wondering about this, and why are you staring at us as if by our own power or godliness we made him walk?

But to keep it from spreading any further among the people, let us warn them never again to speak to anyone in this name."

He said, "We gave you strict orders not to teach in his name, didn't we? Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and are determined to bring this man's blood on us!"

So the Twelve called the whole group of disciples together and said, "It is not desirable for us to neglect messages from God in order to wait on tables.

For we have heard him say that this Jesus from Nazareth will destroy this place and change the customs that Moses handed down to us."

"But the man who was harming his neighbor pushed Moses away and said, "Who made you ruler and judge over us?

This Moses is the one who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai and to our ancestors. He received living truths to give to us,

They told Aaron, "Make gods for us who will lead us. This Moses who led us out of the land of Egypt we don't know what happened to him!'

So I sent for you immediately, and it was good of you to come. All of us are here now in the presence of God to listen to everything the Lord has ordered you to say."

not to all the people, but to us who were chosen by God to be witnesses and who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.

He also ordered us to preach to the people and to testify solemnly that this is the one appointed by God to be the judge of the living and the dead.

"No one can stop us from using water to baptize these people who have received the Holy Spirit in the same way that we did, can they?"

Then he told us how he had seen an angel standing in his home and saying, "Send messengers to Joppa and summon Simon, who is called Peter.

"When I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them just as he was first given to us.

Now if God gave them the same gift that he gave us when we believed in the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, who was I to try to stop God?"

"My brothers, descendants of Abraham's family, and those among you who fear God, it is to us that the message of this salvation has been sent.

he has fulfilled for us, their descendants, by raising Jesus. As it is written in the second Psalm, "You are my Son. Today I have become your Father.'

For that is what the Lord ordered us to do: "I have made you a light to the gentiles to be the means of salvation to the very ends of the earth.'"

When the crowds saw what Paul had done, they shouted in the Lycaonian language, "The gods have become like men and have come down to us!"

God, who knows everyone's heart, showed them he approved by giving them the Holy Spirit, just as he did to us.

He made no distinction between them and us, because of their faith-cleansed hearts.

Greetings. We have heard that some men, coming from us without instructions from us, have said things to trouble you and have unsettled you.

For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to place on you any burden but these essential requirements:

During the night Paul had a vision. A man from Macedonia was standing there and pleading with him, "Come over to Macedonia and help us!"

As soon as he had seen the vision, we immediately looked for a way to go to Macedonia, because we were convinced that God had called us to tell the people there the good news.

A woman named Lydia, from the city of Thyatira, a dealer in purple goods, was listening to us. She was a worshiper of God, and the Lord opened her heart to listen carefully to what was being said by Paul.

When she and her family were baptized, she urged us, "If you are convinced that I am a believer in the Lord, come and stay at my home." And she continued to insist that we do so.

She would follow Paul and us and shout, "These men are servants of the Most High God and are proclaiming to you a way of salvation!"

But Paul told the guards, "The magistrates have had us beaten publicly without a trial and have thrown us into jail, even though we are Roman citizens. Now are they going to throw us out secretly? Certainly not! Have them come and escort us out."

so that they might look for God, somehow reach for him, and find him. Of course, he is never far from any one of us.

These men went on ahead and were waiting for us in Troas.

When he met us in Assos, we took him on board and went to Mitylene.

but when our time there came to an end, we left and proceeded on our journey. All of them accompanied us with their wives and children out of the city. We knelt on the beach, prayed,

He came to us, took Paul's belt, and tied his own feet and hands with it. Then he said, "The Holy Spirit says, "This is how the Jewish leaders in Jerusalem will tie up the man who owns this belt. Then they will hand him over to the gentiles.'"

Some of the disciples from Caesarea went with us. They took us to the home of Mnason to be his guests. He was from Cyprus and had been an early disciple.

When we arrived in Jerusalem, the brothers there welcomed us warmly.

The next day, Paul went with us to visit James, and all the elders were present.

But so as not to detain you any further, I beg you to hear us briefly with your customary graciousness.

Then Festus said, "King Agrippa and all you men who are present with us! You see this man about whom the whole Jewish nation petitioned me, both in Jerusalem and here, shouting that he ought not to live any longer.

"All of us fell to the ground, and I heard a voice asking me in the Hebrew language, "Saul! Saul! Why are you persecuting me? It is hurting you to keep on kicking against the cattle prods.'

After boarding a ship from Adramyttium that was about to sail to the ports on the coast of Asia, we put out to sea. Aristarchus, a Macedonian from Thessalonica, went with us.

After putting out from there, we sailed on the sheltered side of Cyprus because the winds were against us.

There the centurion found an Alexandrian ship bound for Italy and put us on it.