'Few' in the Bible
Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few;
And He performed but few mighty deeds there because of their want of faith.
And Jesus saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven, and a few little fishes.
So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.
For many are called, but few are chosen.
His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.
His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.
And he could there do no mighty work, save that he laid his hands upon a few sick folk, and healed them.
And they had a few small fishes: and he blessed, and commanded to set them also before them.
Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest.
but only one thing is necessary, for Mary has chosen the good part, which shall not be taken away from her.”
But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.
Then said one unto him, Lord, are there few that be saved? And he said unto them,
A few days later, the younger son gathered everything he owned and traveled to a distant country. There he wasted it all on wild living.
The one whose name was Cleopas answered him, "Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem who doesn't know what happened there in the past few days?"
After this, He went down to Capernaum, together with His mother, His brothers, and His disciples, and they stayed there only a few days.
because John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit a few days from now."
But a Pharisee of the name of Gamaliel, a teacher of the Law, held in honour by all the people, rose from his seat and requested that they should be sent outside the court for a few minutes.
And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay for a few days.
And, after a few days, He appeared to the people who had gone up with Him from Galilee to Jerusalem and are now witnesses concerning Him to the Jews.
A few days later, Paul told Barnabas, "Let's go back and visit the brothers in every town where we proclaimed the word of the Lord and see how they're doing."
And some of them believed, and consorted with Paul and Silas; and of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few.
Therefore many of them believed; also of honourable women which were Greeks, and of men, not a few.
A few of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also encountered him. Some of them asked, "What has this beggarly babbler to say?" "His business," said others, "seems to be to cry up some foreign gods." This was because he had been telling the Good News of Jesus and the Resurrection.
A few, however, attached themselves to him and believed, among them being Dionysius a member of the Council, a gentlewoman named Damaris, and some others.
It was while Apollos was in Corinth that Paul passed through the inland districts and came to Ephesus. He found a few disciples there
And not a few of them that practised magical arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all; and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.
A few of the public officials, too, who were friendly to him, sent repeated messages entreating him not to venture into the Theatre.
Now there were quite a few lamps in the upstairs room where we were gathered.
A few days afterwards we loaded our baggage-cattle and continued our journey to Jerusalem.
He instantly sent for a few soldiers and their officers, and came down among the people with all speed. At the sight of the Tribune and the troops they ceased beating Paul.
Notwithstanding, that I be not further tedious unto thee, I pray thee that thou wouldest hear us of thy clemency a few words.
Now when it was decided that we should sail for Italy, they handed over Paul and a few other prisoners into the custody of Julius, a Captain of the Augustan battalion;
Isaiah also calls out concerning Israel, "Although the descendants of Israel are as numerous as the grains of sand on the seashore, only a few will be saved.
Even as Isaiah says in an earlier place, "Were it not that the Lord, the God of Hosts, had left us some few descendants, we should have become like Sodom, and have come to resemble Gomorrah."
What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was seeking [that is, God’s favor by obedience to the Law], but the elect [those chosen few] obtained it, while the rest of them became hardened and callously indifferent;
For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep.
just as some few of you have recognized us as your reason for boasting, even as you will be ours, on the day of Jesus our Lord.
I ask that when I do come I will not be driven to the boldness that I intend to show toward those few who regard us as if we walked according to the flesh [like men without the Spirit].
A little leaven [a slight inclination to error, or a few false teachers] leavens the whole batch [it perverts the concept of faith and misleads the church].
How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words,
For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
And I beseech you, brethren, suffer the word of exhortation: for I have written a letter unto you in few words.
Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
Through Silvanus, to you the faithful brother, as I reckon, through few words I did write, exhorting and testifying this to be the true grace of God in which ye have stood.
But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.
Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.