'Crowd' in the Bible
One day, as the crowd was pressing in on him to listen to God's word, Jesus was standing by the lake of Gennesaret.
When they couldn't find a way to get him in because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and let him down on his stretcher through the tiles into the middle of the room, right in front of Jesus.
Later, Levi gave a large banquet at his home for Jesus. A large crowd of tax collectors and others were eating with them.
The entire crowd was trying to touch him, because power was coming out from him and healing all of them.
When Jesus heard this, he was amazed at him. Turning to the crowd that was following him, he said, "I tell you, not even in Israel have I found this kind of faith!"
Soon afterwards, Jesus went to a city called Nain. His disciples and a large crowd were going along with him.
As he approached the entrance to the city, a man who had died was being carried out. He was his mother's only son, and she was a widow. A large crowd from the city was with her.
Now while a large crowd was gathering and people were coming to Jesus from every city, he said in a parable:
His mother and his brothers came to him, but they couldn't get near him because of the crowd.
When Jesus came back, the crowd welcomed him, because everyone was expecting him.
As the day was drawing to a close, the Twelve came to him and said, "Send the crowd away to the neighboring villages and farms so they can rest and get some food, because we are here in a deserted place."
Taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven and blessed them. Then he broke the loaves in pieces and kept giving them to the disciples to pass on to the crowd.
The next day, when they had come down from the mountain, a large crowd met Jesus.
Suddenly, a man in the crowd shouted, "Teacher, I beg you to look at my son, because he is my only child.
As Jesus was saying this, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and told him, "How blessed is the womb that gave birth to you and the breasts that nursed you!"
Then someone in the crowd told him, "Teacher, tell my brother to divide the family inheritance with me."
But the synagogue leader, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, told the crowd, "There are six days when work is to be done. So come on those days to be healed, and not on the Sabbath day."
Even as he was saying this, all of his opponents were blushing with shame. But the rest of the crowd was rejoicing at all the wonderful things he was doing.
When he heard the crowd going by, he asked what was happening.
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 couldn't do so due to the crowd, since he was a short man.
He was now approaching the descent from the Mount of Olives. The whole crowd of disciples began to rejoice and to praise God with a loud voice because of all the miracles they had seen.
Some of the Pharisees in the crowd told Jesus, "Teacher, tell your disciples to be quiet."
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.
So the high priests and the scribes were looking for a way to put him to death, because they were afraid of the crowd.
Judas accepted their offer and began to look for a good opportunity to betray Jesus to them when no crowd was present.
While Jesus was still speaking, a crowd arrived. The man called Judas, one of the Twelve, was leading them, and he came close to Jesus to kiss him.
A large crowd of people followed him, including some women who kept mourning and wailing for him.