'People' in the Bible

During these days Peter stood up among the brothers—the number of people who were together was about 120—and said:

For these people are not drunk, as you suppose, since it’s only nine in the morning.

Though He was delivered up according to God’s determined plan and foreknowledge, you used lawless people to nail Him to a cross and kill Him.

So those who accepted his message were baptized, and that day about 3,000 people were added to them.

praising God and having favor with all the people. And every day the Lord added to them those who were being saved.

All the people saw him walking and praising God,

While he was holding on to Peter and John, all the people, greatly amazed, ran toward them in what is called Solomon’s Colonnade.

When Peter saw this, he addressed the people: “Men of Israel, why are you amazed at this? Or why do you stare at us, as though we had made him walk by our own power or godliness?

And everyone who will not listen to that Prophet will be completely cut off from the people.

Now as they were speaking to the people, the priests, the commander of the temple police, and the Sadducees confronted them,

because they were provoked that they were teaching the people and proclaiming the resurrection from the dead, using Jesus as the example.

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

let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene—whom you crucified and whom God raised from the dead—by Him this man is standing here before you healthy.

There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to people, and we must be saved by it.”

However, so this does not spread any further among the people, let’s threaten them against speaking to anyone in this name again.”

After threatening them further, they released them. They found no way to punish them, because the people were all giving glory to God over what had been done;

Many signs and wonders were being done among the people through the hands of the apostles. By common consent they would all meet in Solomon’s Colonnade.

None of the rest dared to join them, but the people praised them highly.

In addition, a large group came together from the towns surrounding Jerusalem, bringing sick people and those who were tormented by unclean spirits, and they were all healed.

“Go and stand in the temple complex, and tell the people all about this life.”

Someone came and reported to them, “Look! The men you put in jail are standing in the temple complex and teaching the people.”

Then the commander went with the temple police and brought them in without force, because they were afraid the people might stone them.

A Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law who was respected by all the people, stood up in the Sanhedrin and ordered the men to be taken outside for a little while.

Stephen, full of grace and power, was performing great wonders and signs among the people.

They stirred up the people, the elders, and the scribes; so they came, dragged him off, and took him to the Sanhedrin.

Joseph then invited his father Jacob and all his relatives, 75 people in all,

“As the time was drawing near to fulfill the promise that God had made to Abraham, the people flourished and multiplied in Egypt

I have observed the oppression of My people in Egypt; I have heard their groaning and have come down to rescue them. And now, come, I will send you to Egypt.

“You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are always resisting the Holy Spirit; as your ancestors did, so do you.

A man named Simon had previously practiced sorcery in that city and astounded the Samaritan people, while claiming to be somebody great.

“Lord,” Ananias answered, “I have heard from many people about this man, how much harm he has done to Your saints in Jerusalem.

He was a devout man and feared God along with his whole household. He did many charitable deeds for the Jewish people and always prayed to God.

not by all the people, but by us, witnesses appointed beforehand by God, who ate and drank with Him after He rose from the dead.

He commanded us to preach to the people and to solemnly testify that He is the One appointed by God to be the Judge of the living and the dead.

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

After the arrest, he put him in prison and assigned four squads of four soldiers each to guard him, intending to bring him out to the people after the Passover.

Then Peter came to himself and said, “Now I know for certain that the Lord has sent His angel and rescued me from Herod’s grasp and from all that the Jewish people expected.”

After the reading of the Law and the Prophets, the leaders of the synagogue sent word to them, saying, “Brothers, if you have any message of encouragement for the people, you can speak.”

The God of this people Israel chose our ancestors, exalted the people during their stay in the land of Egypt, and led them out of it with a mighty arm.

Before He came to public attention, John had previously proclaimed a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.

and He appeared for many days to those who came with Him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now His witnesses to the people.

But the people of the city were divided, some siding with the Jews and some with the apostles.

Simeon has reported how God first intervened to take from the Gentiles a people for His name.

The people here were more open-minded than those in Thessalonica, since they welcomed the message with eagerness and examined the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

“Therefore, having overlooked the times of ignorance, God now commands all people everywhere to repent,

For I am with you, and no one will lay a hand on you to hurt you, because I have many people in this city.”

“This man,” they said, “persuades people to worship God contrary to the law!”

Paul said, “John baptized with a baptism of repentance, telling the people that they should believe in the One who would come after him, that is, in Jesus.”

You both see and hear that not only in Ephesus, but in almost all of Asia, this man Paul has persuaded and misled a considerable number of people by saying that gods made by hand are not gods!

Though Paul wanted to go in before the people, the disciples did not let him.

Then some of the crowd gave Alexander advice when the Jews pushed him to the front. So motioning with his hand, Alexander wanted to make his defense to the people.

When we heard this, both we and the local people begged him not to go up to Jerusalem.

shouting, “Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches everyone everywhere against our people, our law, and this place. What’s more, he also brought Greeks into the temple and has profaned this holy place.”

The whole city was stirred up, and the people rushed together. They seized Paul, dragged him out of the temple complex, and at once the gates were shut.

for the mass of people followed, yelling, “Take him away!”

Paul said, “I am a Jewish man from Tarsus of Cilicia, a citizen of an important city. Now I ask you, let me speak to the people.”

After he had given permission, Paul stood on the steps and motioned with his hand to the people. When there was a great hush, he addressed them in the Hebrew language: >

For you will be a witness for Him to all people of what you have seen and heard.

“I did not know, brothers, that he was the high priest,” replied Paul. “For it is written, You must not speak evil of a ruler of your people.”

I will rescue you from the people and from the Gentiles. I now send you to them

that the Messiah must suffer, and that as the first to rise from the dead, He would proclaim light to our people and to the Gentiles.”

The local people showed us extraordinary kindness, for they lit a fire and took us all in, since it was raining and cold.

When the local people saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “This man is probably a murderer, and though he has escaped the sea, Justice does not allow him to live!”

After three days he called together the leaders of the Jews. When they had gathered he said to them: “Brothers, although I have done nothing against our people or the customs of our ancestors, I was delivered as a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.

when He said,Go to these people and say:You will listen and listen,yet never understand;and you will look and look,yet never perceive.