'People' in the Bible

praising God, and having favour with all the people; and the Lord added to the assembly daily those that were to be saved.

And all the people saw him walking and praising God;

And as he held Peter and John, all the people ran together to them in the portico which is called Solomon's, greatly wondering.

And Peter, seeing it, answered the people, Men of Israel, why are ye astonished at this? or why do ye gaze on us as if we had by our own power or piety made him to walk?

And it shall be that whatsoever soul shall not hear that prophet shall be destroyed from among the people.

And as they were speaking to the people, the priests and captain of the temple and the Sadducees came upon them,

being distressed on account of their teaching the people and preaching by Jesus the resurrection from among the dead;

Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, Rulers of the people and elders of Israel,

be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazaraean, whom ye have crucified, whom God has raised from among the dead, by him this man stands here before you sound in body.

But that it be not further spread among the people, let us threaten them severely no longer to speak to any man in this name.

But they, having further threatened them, let them go, finding no way how they might punish them, on account of the people, because all glorified God for what had taken place;

And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders done among the people; (and they were all with one accord in Solomon's porch,

but of the rest durst no man join them, but the people magnified them;

Go ye and stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.

And some one coming reported to them, Lo, the men whom ye put in the prison are in the temple, standing and teaching the people.

Then the captain, having gone with the officers, brought them, not with violence, for they feared the people, lest they should be stoned.

But a certain man, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law, held in honour of all the people, rose up in the council, and commanded to put the men out for a short while,

After him rose Judas the Galilean in the days of the census, and drew away a number of people after him; and he perished, and all, as many as obeyed him, were scattered abroad.

And Stephen, full of grace and power, wrought wonders and great signs among the people.

And they roused the people, and the elders, and the scribes. And coming upon him they seized him and brought him to the council.

But as the time of promise drew near which God had promised to Abraham, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt,

I have surely seen the ill treatment of my people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groan, and have come down to take them out of it; and now, come, I will send thee to Egypt.

pious, and fearing God with all his house, both giving much alms to the people, and supplicating God continually,

not of all the people, but of witnesses who were chosen before of God, us who have eaten and drunk with him after he arose from among the dead.

And he commanded us to preach to the people, and to testify that he it is who was determinately appointed of God to be judge of living and dead.

for he was a good man and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith; and a large crowd of people were added to the Lord.

whom having seized he put in prison, having delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep, purposing after the passover to bring him out to the people.

And Peter, being come to himself, said, Now I know certainly that the Lord has sent forth his angel and has taken me out of the hand of Herod and all the expectation of the people of the Jews.

And the people cried out, A god's voice and not a man's.

And after the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, Brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation to the people, speak.

The God of this people Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people in their sojourn in the land of Egypt, and with a high arm brought them out of it,

John having proclaimed before the face of his entry among the people the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.

who appeared for many days to those who had come up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now his witnesses to the people.

But the Jews excited the women of the upper classes who were worshippers, and the first people of the city, and raised a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and cast them out of their coasts.

Simon has related how God first visited to take out of the nations a people for his name.

But the Jews having been stirred up to jealousy, and taken to themselves certain wicked men of the lowest rabble, and having got a crowd together, set the city in confusion; and having beset the house of Jason sought to bring them out to the people;

because I am with thee, and no one shall set upon thee to injure thee; because I have much people in this city.

And Paul said, John indeed baptised with the baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe on him that was coming after him, that is, on Jesus.

But Paul intending to go in to the people, the disciples suffered him not;

But from among the crowd they put forward Alexander, the Jews pushing him forward. And Alexander, beckoning with his hand, would have made a defence to the people.

crying, Israelites, help! this is the man who teaches all everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place, and has brought Greeks too into the temple, and profaned this holy place.

And the whole city was moved, and there was a concourse of the people; and having laid hold on Paul they drew him out of the temple, and immediately the doors were shut.

For the multitude of the people followed, crying, Away with him.

But Paul said, I am a Jew of Tarsus, citizen of no insignificant city of Cilicia, and I beseech of thee, allow me to speak to the people.

And when he had allowed him, Paul, standing on the stairs, beckoned with his hand to the people; and a great silence having been made, he addressed them in the Hebrew tongue, saying,

And Paul said, I was not conscious, brethren, that he was high priest; for it is written, Thou shalt not speak evilly of the ruler of thy people.

asking as a grace against him that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying people in wait to kill him on the way.

taking thee out from among the people, and the nations, to whom I send thee,

namely, whether Christ should suffer; whether he first, through resurrection of the dead, should announce light both to the people and to the nations.

And it came to pass after three days, that he called together those who were the chief of the Jews; and when they had come together he said to them, Brethren, I having done nothing against the people or the customs of our forefathers, have been delivered a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans,

saying, Go to this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear and not understand, and seeing ye shall see and not perceive.

For the heart of this people has become fat, and they hear heavily with their ears, and they have closed their eyes; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.