'People' in the Bible

She will give birth to a son, and you are to name Him Jesus, because He will save His people from their sins.”

So he assembled all the chief priests and scribes of the people and asked them where the Messiah would be born.

And you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah,are by no means least among the leaders of Judah:because out of you will come a leaderwho will shepherd My people Israel.”

Then people from Jerusalem, all Judea, and all the vicinity of the Jordan were flocking to him,

The people who live in darknesshave seen a great light,and for those living in the shadowland of death,light has dawned.

“Follow Me,” He told them, “and I will make you fish for people!”

Jesus was going all over Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom, and healing every disease and sickness among the people.

Therefore, whoever breaks one of the least of these commands and teaches people to do so will be called least in the kingdom of heaven. But whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

“Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of people, to be seen by them. Otherwise, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.

So whenever you give to the poor, don’t sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be applauded by people. I assure you: They’ve got their reward!

“Whenever you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites, because they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by people. I assure you: They’ve got their reward!

“For if you forgive people their wrongdoing, your heavenly Father will forgive you as well.

But if you don’t forgive people, your Father will not forgive your wrongdoing.

“Whenever you fast, don’t be sad-faced like the hypocrites. For they make their faces unattractive so their fasting is obvious to people. I assure you: They’ve got their reward!

so that you don’t show your fasting to people but to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

Because people will hand you over to sanhedrins and flog you in their synagogues, beware of them.

Because of this, I tell you, people will be forgiven every sin and blasphemy, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven.

I tell you that on the day of judgment people will have to account for every careless word they speak.

For I assure you: Many prophets and righteous people longed to see the things you see yet didn’t see them; to hear the things you hear yet didn’t hear them.

But while people were sleeping, his enemy came, sowed weeds among the wheat, and left.

So it will be at the end of the age. The angels will go out, separate the evil people from the righteous,

These people honor Me with their lips,but their heart is far from Me.

When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, He asked His disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?”

Then Jesus said, “Leave the children alone, and don’t try to keep them from coming to Me, because the kingdom of heaven is made up of people like this.”

When He entered the temple complex, the chief priests and the elders of the people came up to Him as He was teaching and said, “By what authority are You doing these things? Who gave You this authority?”

greetings in the marketplaces, and to be called ‘Rabbi’ by people.

“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You lock up the kingdom of heaven from people. For you don’t go in, and you don’t allow those entering to go in.

Blind people! For which is greater, the gift or the altar that sanctifies the gift?

In the same way, on the outside you seem righteous to people, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

Then the chief priests and the elders of the people assembled in the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,

“Not during the festival,” they said, “so there won’t be rioting among the people.”

While He was still speaking, Judas, one of the Twelve, suddenly arrived. A large mob, with swords and clubs, was with him from the chief priests and elders of the people.

When daybreak came, all the chief priests and the elders of the people plotted against Jesus to put Him to death.

All the people answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!”

Therefore give orders that the tomb be made secure until the third day. Otherwise, His disciples may come, steal Him, and tell the people, ‘He has been raised from the dead.’ Then the last deception will be worse than the first.”

So they took the money and did as they were instructed. And this story has been spread among Jewish people to this day.