'Crowd' in the Bible

Now when Jesus saw a crowd around Him, He gave orders to depart to the other side of the sea.

When the crowd saw this, they were afraid and honored God who had given such authority to men.

When Jesus came to the leader’s house, He saw the flute players and a crowd lamenting loudly.

But when the crowd had been put outside, He went in and took her by the hand, and the girl got up.

While they were going away, Jesus began to speak to the crowd about John: "What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?

While He was still addressing the people His mother and His brothers were standing on the edge of the crowd desiring to speak to Him.

Such large crowds gathered around Him that He got into a boat and sat down, while the whole crowd stood on the shore.

Though he wanted to kill him, he feared the crowd, since they regarded him as a prophet.

Now when Jesus heard this he went away from there privately in a boat to an isolated place. But when the crowd heard about it, they followed him on foot from the towns.

As He stepped ashore, He saw a huge crowd, felt compassion for them, and healed their sick.

Summoning the crowd, He told them, “Listen and understand:

So the crowd was amazed when they saw those unable to speak talking, the deformed restored, the lame walking, and the blind seeing. And they gave glory to the God of Israel.

Now Jesus summoned His disciples and said, “I have compassion on the crowd, because they’ve already stayed with Me three days and have nothing to eat. I don’t want to send them away hungry; otherwise they might collapse on the way.”

The disciples said to Him, “Where could we get enough bread in this desolate place to fill such a crowd?”

After commanding the crowd to sit down on the ground,

and having taken the seven loaves and the fishes, having given thanks, he broke them and gave them to his disciples, and the disciples to the crowd.

After sending away the crowd, he got into the boat and went to the region of Magadan.

When they reached the crowd, a man approached and knelt down before Him.

As they were leaving Jericho, a large crowd followed Him.

The crowd told them to keep quiet, but they cried out all the more, “Lord, have mercy on us, Son of David!”

A very large crowd spread their robes on the road; others were cutting branches from the trees and spreading them on the road.

But if we say, ‘From men,’ we’re afraid of the crowd, because everyone thought John was a prophet.”

All the crowd heard this, and were filled with amazement at His teaching.

Just then, while Jesus was still speaking, Judas, one of the Twelve, arrived. A large crowd armed with swords and clubs was with him. They were from the high priests and elders of the people.

At that moment Jesus said to the crowd, "Have you come out with swords and clubs to arrest me like you would an outlaw? Day after day I sat teaching in the temple courts, yet you did not arrest me.

At the festival the governor’s custom was to release to the crowd a prisoner they wanted.

The High Priests, however, and the Elders urged the crowd to ask for Barabbas and to demand the death of Jesus.

When Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere, but that a riot was starting instead, he took some water, washed his hands in front of the crowd, and said, “I am innocent of this man’s blood. See to it yourselves!”

Such a large crowd gathered that there wasn't room for them, even in front of the door. Jesus was speaking his message to them

Since they were not able to bring him to Jesus because of the crowd, they removed the roof above where He was. And when they had broken through, they lowered the mat on which the paralytic was lying.

Then Jesus went out again beside the sea. The whole crowd was coming to Him, and He taught them.

So Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea. A large crowd from Galilee, Judea,

and from Jerusalem and from Idumea and the other side of the Jordan and around Tyre and Sidon a great crowd came to him [because they] heard all that he was doing.

Then He told His disciples to have a small boat ready for Him, so the crowd would not crush Him.

Then He went home, and the crowd gathered again so that they were not even able to eat.

A crowd was sitting around Him and told Him, “Look, Your mother, Your brothers, and Your sisters are outside asking for You.”

Again He began to teach by the sea, and a very large crowd gathered around Him. So He got into a boat on the sea and sat down, while the whole crowd was on the shore facing the sea.

So they left the crowd and took Him along since He was already in the boat. And other boats were with Him.

When Jesus had crossed over again by boat to the other side, a large crowd gathered around Him while He was by the sea.

So Jesus went with him, and a large crowd was following and pressing against Him.

Having heard about Jesus, she came behind Him in the crowd and touched His robe.

At once Jesus realized in Himself that power had gone out from Him. He turned around in the crowd and said, “Who touched My robes?”

His disciples said to Him, “You see the crowd pressing against You, and You say, ‘Who touched Me?’”

So as He stepped ashore, He saw a huge crowd and had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. Then He began to teach them many things.

Immediately He made His disciples get into the boat and go ahead of Him to the other side, to Bethsaida, while He dismissed the crowd.

Summoning the crowd again, He told them, “Listen to Me, all of you, and understand:

When He went into the house away from the crowd, the disciples asked Him about the parable.

So He took him away from the crowd privately. After putting His fingers in the man’s ears and spitting, He touched his tongue.

In those days there was again a large crowd, and they had nothing to eat. He summoned the disciples and said to them,

“I have compassion on the crowd, because they’ve already stayed with Me three days and have nothing to eat.

"Where can we possibly get bread here in this remote place to satisfy such a crowd?" answered His disciples.

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.

Summoning the crowd along with His disciples, He said to them, “If anyone wants to be My follower, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow Me.

When they came to the disciples, they saw a large crowd around them and scribes disputing with them.

All of a sudden, when the whole crowd saw Him, they were amazed and ran to greet Him.

Out of the crowd, one man answered Him, “Teacher, I brought my son to You. He has a spirit that makes him unable to speak.

When Jesus saw that a crowd was rapidly coming together, He rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, “You mute and deaf spirit, I command you: come out of him and never enter him again!”

They came to Jericho. And as He was leaving Jericho with His disciples and a large crowd, Bartimaeus (the son of Timaeus), a blind beggar, was sitting by the road.

Then the chief priests and the scribes heard it and started looking for a way to destroy Him. For they were afraid of Him, because the whole crowd was astonished by His teaching.

But if we say, ‘From men’”—they were afraid of the crowd, because everyone thought that John was a genuine prophet.

Because they knew He had said this parable against them, they were looking for a way to arrest Him, but they were afraid of the crowd. So they left Him and went away.

David himself calls Him ‘Lord’; how then can the Messiah be his Son?” And the large crowd was listening to Him with delight.

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

Just then, while Jesus was still speaking, Judas, one of the Twelve, arrived. A crowd armed with swords and clubs was with him. They were from the high priests, the scribes, and the elders.

The crowd came up and began to ask Pilate to do for them as was his custom.

But the chief priests stirred up the crowd so that he would release Barabbas to them instead.

Then, willing to gratify the crowd, Pilate released Barabbas to them. And after having Jesus flogged, he handed Him over to be crucified.

Now the whole crowd of people were praying outside at the hour of the incense offering.

But He passed right through the crowd and went on His way.

As the crowd was pressing in on Jesus to hear God’s word, He was standing by Lake Gennesaret.

He got into one of the boats, which was Simon’s, and asked him to put out a little distance from the shore. And He sat down and began teaching the crowds from the boat.

Since they could not find a way to bring him in because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and lowered him on the mat through the roof tiles into the middle of the crowd before Jesus.

Then Levi hosted a grand banquet for Him at his house. Now there was a large crowd of tax collectors and others who were guests with them.

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.

The whole crowd was trying to touch Him, because power was coming out from Him and healing them all.

Jesus heard this and was amazed at him, and turning to the crowd following Him, He said, “I tell you, I have not found so great a faith even in Israel!”

Soon afterward He was on His way to a town called Nain. His disciples and a large crowd were traveling with Him.

Just as He neared the gate of the town, a dead man was being carried out. He was his mother’s only son, and she was a widow. A large crowd from the city was also with her.

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

Then His mother and brothers came to Him, but they could not meet with Him because of the crowd.

But He was told, "Your mother and brothers are standing on the edge of the crowd, and want to see you."

When Jesus returned, the crowd welcomed Him, for they were all expecting Him.

But the immense crowd, aware of this, followed Him; and receiving them kindly He proceeded to speak to them of the Kingdom of God, and those who needed to be restored to health, He cured.

Late in the day, the Twelve approached and said to Him, “Send the crowd away, so they can go into the surrounding villages and countryside to find food and lodging, because we are in a deserted place here.”

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

Then He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, He blessed and broke them. He kept giving them to the disciples to set before the crowd.

The next day, when they came down from the mountain, a large crowd met Him.

Just then a man from the crowd cried out, “Teacher, I beg You to look at my son, because he’s my only child.

ThenBut while the entire crowd was amazed at everything Jesus was doing, he said to his disciples,

As He was saying these things, a woman from the crowd raised her voice and said to Him, “The womb that bore You and the one who nursed You are blessed!”

In these circumstances, a crowd of many thousands came together, so that they were trampling on one another. He began to say to His disciples first: “Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

Someone from the crowd said to Him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”

But the leader of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, responded by telling the crowd, “There are six days when work should be done; therefore come on those days and be healed and not on the Sabbath day.”

When He had said these things, all His adversaries were humiliated, but the whole crowd was rejoicing over all the glorious things He was doing.

Hearing a crowd passing by, he inquired what this meant.

The people at the front of the crowd sternly told him to be quiet, but he started shouting even louder, "Son of David, have mercy on me!"

He was trying to see who Jesus was, but he was not able because of the crowd, since he was a short man.

Now He came near the path down the Mount of Olives, and the whole crowd of the disciples began to praise God joyfully with a loud voice for all the miracles they had seen:

Some of the Pharisees from the crowd told Him, “Teacher, rebuke Your disciples.”

When the scribes and the high priests realized that Jesus had told this parable about them, they wanted to arrest him right then, but they were afraid of the crowd.