'Men' in the Bible

"Thus has the Lord dealt with me," she said, "now that He has graciously taken away my reproach among men."

He has cast monarchs down from their thrones, And exalted men of low estate.

"Glory be to God in the highest Heavens, And on earth peace among men who please Him!"

He, however, saw two fishing-boats drawn up on the beach (for the men had gone away from them and were washing the nets)

And a party of men came carrying a palsied man on a bed, and they endeavoured to bring him in and lay him before Jesus.

But Jesus replied to them, "It is not men in good health who require a physician, but the sick.

"Blessed are you when men shall hate you and exclude you from their society and insult you, and spurn your very names as evil things, for the Son of Man's sake.

"But alas for you rich men, because you already have your consolation!

"Alas for you when men shall all have spoken well of you; for that is just the way their forefathers behaved to the false Prophets!

And behave to your fellow men just as you would have them behave to you.

"If you love those who love you, what credit is it to you? Why, even bad men love those who love them.

And if you are kind to those who are kind to you, what credit is it to you? Even bad men act thus.

And if you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what credit is it to you? Even bad men lend to their fellows so as to receive back an equal amount.

Every tree is known by its own fruit. It is not from thorns that men gather figs, nor from the bramble that they can get a bunch of grapes.

The men came to Jesus and said, "John the Baptist has sent us to you with this question: 'Are you the Coming One, or is there another that we are to expect?'"

Then He answered the messengers, "Go and report to John what you have seen and heard. Blind men receive sight, the lame walk, lepers are purified, deaf persons hear, the dead are raised to life, the poor have the Good News proclaimed to them.

"To what then shall I compare the men of the present generation, and what do they resemble?

"There were once two men in debt to one money-lender," said Jesus; "one owed him five hundred shillings and the other fifty.

And suddenly there were two men conversing with Him, who were Moses and Elijah.

Now Peter and the others were weighed down with sleep; but, keeping themselves awake all through, they saw His glory, and the two men standing with Him.

"As for you, store these my sayings in your memory; for, before long, the Son of Man will be betrayed into the hands of men."

On that same occasion Jesus was filled by the Holy Spirit with rapturous joy. "I give Thee fervent thanks," He exclaimed, "O Father, Lord of Heaven and earth, that Thou hast hidden these things from sages and men of understanding, and hast revealed them to babes. Yes, Father, for such has been Thy gracious will.

For just as Jonah became a sign to the men of Nineveh, so the Son of Man will be a token to the present generation.

The Queen of the South will awake at the Judgement together with the men of the present generation, and will condemn them; because she came from the extremity of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; but mark! One greater than Solomon is here.

There will stand up men of Nineveh at the Judgement together with the present generation, and will condemn it; because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and mark! One greater than Jonah is here.

Foolish men! Did not He who made the outside make the inside also?

"Alas too for you expounders of the Law!" replied Jesus, "for you load men with cumbrous burdens which you yourselves will not touch with one of your fingers.

"And I tell you that every man who shall have acknowledged me before men, the Son of Man will also acknowledge before the angels of God.

But he who disowns me before men will be disowned before the angels of God.

But if God so clothes the vegetation in the fields, that blooms to-day and to-morrow will be thrown into the oven, how much more certainly will He clothe you, you men of feeble faith!

and be yourselves like men waiting for their master--on the look-out till he shall return from the wedding feast--that, when he comes and knocks, they may open the door instantly.

"So the servant came and brought these answers to his master, and they stirred his anger. "'Go out quickly,' he said, 'into the streets of the city--the wide ones and the narrow. You will see poor men, and crippled, blind, lame: fetch them all in here.'

Or what king, marching to encounter another king in war, does not first sit down and deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand men to meet the one who is advancing against him with twenty thousand?

"Which of you men, if he has a hundred sheep and has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in their pasture and go in search of the lost one till he finds it?

"But on coming to himself he said, "'How many of my father's hired men have more bread than they want, while I here am dying of hunger!

I no longer deserve to be called a son of yours: treat me as one of your hired men.'

"And the master praised the dishonest steward for his shrewdness; for, in relation to their own contemporaries, the men of this age are shrewder than the sons of Light.

"You are they," He said to them, "who boast of their own goodness before men, but God sees your hearts; for that which holds a proud position among men is detestable in God's sight.

And as He entered a certain village, ten men met Him who were lepers and stood at a distance.

Men were eating and drinking, taking wives and giving wives, up to the very day on which Noah entered the Ark, and the Deluge came and destroyed them all.

On that night, I tell you, there will be two men in one bed: one will be taken away and the other left behind.

And to some who relied on themselves as being righteous men, and looked down upon all others, He addressed this parable.

"Two men went up to the Temple to pray," He said; "one being a Pharisee and the other a tax-gatherer.

And day after day He taught in the Temple, while the High Priests and the Scribes were devising some means of destroying Him, as were also the leading men of the people.

So, after impatiently watching their opportunity, they sent spies who were to act the part of good and honest men, that they might fasten on some expression of His, so as to hand Him over to the ruling power and the Governor's authority.

"The men of this age," replied Jesus, "marry, and the women are given in marriage.

But as for those who shall have been deemed worthy to find a place in that other age and in the Resurrection from among the dead, the men do not marry and the women are not given in marriage.

He is not a God of dead, but of living men, for to Him are all living."

Meanwhile the men who held Jesus in custody repeatedly beat Him in cruel sport,

At this they were in great perplexity, when suddenly there stood by them two men whose raiment flashed like lightning.

The women were terrified; but, as they stood with their faces bowed to the ground, the men said to them, "Why do you search among the dead for Him who is living?

when He told you that the Son of Man must be betrayed into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and on the third day rise again."

"O dull-witted men," He replied, "with minds so slow to believe all that the Prophets have spoken!