'Man' in the Bible

There was a man named Johnwho was sent from God.

who were born,not of blood,or of the will of the flesh,or of the will of man,but of God.

This is the One I told you about: ‘After me comes a man who has surpassed me, because He existed before me.’

Then He said, “I assure you: You will see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”

and because He did not need anyone to testify about man; for He Himself knew what was in man.

There was a man from the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.

This man came to Him at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that You have come from God as a teacher, for no one could perform these signs You do unless God were with him.”

No one has ascended into heaven except the One who descended from heaven—the Son of Man.

Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up,

“For you’ve had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.”

“Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did! Could this be the Messiah?”

When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea into Galilee, he went to Him and pleaded with Him to come down and heal his son, for he was about to die.

“Go,” Jesus told him, “your son will live.” The man believed what Jesus said to him and departed.

One man was there who had been sick for 38 years.

“Sir,” the sick man answered, “I don’t have a man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I’m coming, someone goes down ahead of me.”

Instantly the man got well, picked up his mat, and started to walk.Now that day was the Sabbath,

so the Jews said to the man who had been healed, “This is the Sabbath! It’s illegal for you to pick up your mat.”

He replied, “The man who made me well told me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’”

“Who is this man who told you, ‘Pick up your mat and walk’?” they asked.

But the man who was cured did not know who it was, because Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there.

The man went and reported to the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.

And He has granted Him the right to pass judgment, because He is the Son of Man.

Don’t work for the food that perishes but for the food that lasts for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal of approval on Him.”

At that, the Jews argued among themselves, “How can this man give us His flesh to eat?”

So Jesus said to them, “I assure you: Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you do not have life in yourselves.

Then what if you were to observe the Son of Man ascending to where He was before?

And there was a lot of discussion about Him among the crowds. Some were saying, “He’s a good man.” Others were saying, “No, on the contrary, He’s deceiving the people.”

“Consider this: Moses has given you circumcision—not that it comes from Moses but from the fathers—and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.

If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses won’t be broken, are you angry at Me because I made a man entirely well on the Sabbath?

Some of the people of Jerusalem were saying, “Isn’t this the man they want to kill?

But we know where this man is from. When the Messiah comes, nobody will know where He is from.”

However, many from the crowd believed in Him and said, “When the Messiah comes, He won’t perform more signs than this man has done, will He?”

The police answered, “No man ever spoke like this!”

“Our law doesn’t judge a man before it hears from him and knows what he’s doing, does it?”

So Jesus said to them, “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and that I do nothing on My own. But just as the Father taught Me, I say these things.

But now you are trying to kill Me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham did not do this!

As He was passing by, He saw a man blind from birth.

His disciples questioned Him: “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”

“Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” Jesus answered. “This came about so that God’s works might be displayed in him.

His neighbors and those who formerly had seen him as a beggar said, “Isn’t this the man who sat begging?”

He answered, “The man called Jesus made mud, spread it on my eyes, and told me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ So when I went and washed I received my sight.”

They brought the man who used to be blind to the Pharisees.

Therefore some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, for He doesn’t keep the Sabbath!” But others were saying, “How can a sinful man perform such signs?” And there was a division among them.

Again they asked the blind man, “What do you say about Him, since He opened your eyes?”“He’s a prophet,” he said.

So a second time they summoned the man who had been blind and told him, “Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner!”

We know that God has spoken to Moses. But this man—we don’t know where He’s from!”

“This is an amazing thing,” the man told them. “You don’t know where He is from, yet He opened my eyes!

If this man were not from God, He wouldn’t be able to do anything.”

When Jesus heard that they had thrown the man out, He found him and asked, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”

The hired man, since he is not the shepherd and doesn’t own the sheep, leaves them and runs away when he sees a wolf coming. The wolf then snatches and scatters them.

This happens because he is a hired man and doesn’t care about the sheep.

“We aren’t stoning You for a good work,” the Jews answered, “but for blasphemy, because You—being a man—make Yourself God.”

Many came to Him and said, “John never did a sign, but everything John said about this man was true.”

Now a man was sick, Lazarus, from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.

But some of them said, “Couldn’t He who opened the blind man’s eyes also have kept this man from dying?”

The dead man came out bound hand and foot with linen strips and with his face wrapped in a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Loose him and let him go.”

So the chief priests and the Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin and said, “What are we going to do since this man does many signs?

You’re not considering that it is to your advantage that one man should die for the people rather than the whole nation perish.”

Jesus replied to them, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.

Then the crowd replied to Him, “We have heard from the scripture that the Messiah will remain forever. So how can You say, ‘The Son of Man must be lifted up’? Who is this Son of Man?”

When he had gone out, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man is glorified, and God is glorified in Him.

Caiaphas was the one who had advised the Jews that it was advantageous that one man should die for the people.

One of the high priest’s slaves, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, said, “Didn’t I see you with Him in the garden?”

Then Pilate came out to them and said, “What charge do you bring against this man?”

They answered him, “If this man weren’t a criminal, we wouldn’t have handed Him over to you.”

They shouted back, “Not this man, but Barabbas!” Now Barabbas was a revolutionary.

Then Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, “Here is the man!”

From that moment Pilate made every effort to release Him. But the Jews shouted, “If you release this man, you are not Caesar’s friend. Anyone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar!”

So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first man and of the other one who had been crucified with Him.