'People' in the Bible

Meanwhile, the people were waiting for Zechariah, amazed that he stayed so long in the sanctuary.

“The Lord has done this for me. He has looked with favor in these days to take away my disgrace among the people.”

Praise the Lord, the God of Israel,because He has visitedand provided redemption for His people.

to give His people knowledge of salvationthrough the forgiveness of their sins.

But the angel said to them, “Don’t be afraid, for look, I proclaim to you good news of great joy that will be for all the people:

Glory to God in the highest heaven,and peace on earth to people He favors!

a light for revelation to the Gentilesand glory to Your people Israel.

And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and with people.

Now the people were waiting expectantly, and all of them were debating in their minds whether John might be the Messiah.

Then, along with many other exhortations, he proclaimed good news to the people.

When all the people were baptized, Jesus also was baptized. As He was praying, heaven opened,

and so were James and John, Zebedee’s sons, who were Simon’s partners.“Don’t be afraid,” Jesus told Simon. “From now on you will be catching people!”

After coming down with them, He stood on a level place with a large crowd of His disciples and a great number of people from all Judea and Jerusalem and from the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon.

You are blessed when people hate you,when they exclude you, insult you,and slander your name as evilbecause of the Son of Man.

Woe to youwhen all people speak well of you,for this is the way their ancestorsused to treat the false prophets.

When He had concluded all His sayings in the hearing of the people, He entered Capernaum.

Then fear came over everyone, and they glorified God, saying, “A great prophet has risen among us,” and “God has visited His people.”

At that time Jesus healed many people of diseases, plagues, and evil spirits, and He granted sight to many blind people.

(And when all the people, including the tax collectors, heard this, they acknowledged God’s way of righteousness, because they had been baptized with John’s baptism.

“To what then should I compare the people of this generation, and what are they like?

As a large crowd was gathering, and people were flocking to Him from every town, He said in a parable:

Then people went out to see what had happened. They came to Jesus and found the man the demons had departed from, sitting at Jesus’ feet, dressed and in his right mind. And they were afraid.

Then all the people of the Gerasene region asked Him to leave them, because they were gripped by great fear. So getting into the boat, He returned.

When the woman saw that she was discovered, she came trembling and fell down before Him. In the presence of all the people, she declared the reason she had touched Him and how she was instantly cured.

“You give them something to eat,” He told them.“We have no more than five loaves and two fish,” they said, “unless we go and buy food for all these people.”

For just as Jonah became a sign to the people of Nineveh, so also the Son of Man will be to this generation.

“Woe to you! You are like unmarked graves; the people who walk over them don’t know it.”

Then He said: “Woe also to you experts in the law! You load people with burdens that are hard to carry, yet you yourselves don’t touch these burdens with one of your fingers.

But I will show you the One to fear: Fear Him who has authority to throw people into hell after death. Yes, I say to you, this is the One to fear!

You must be like people waiting for their master to return from the wedding banquet so that when he comes and knocks, they can open the door for him at once.

At that time, some people came and reported to Him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.

Or those 18 that the tower in Siloam fell on and killed—do you think they were more sinful than all the people who live in Jerusalem?

I tell you, in the same way, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over 99 righteous people who don’t need repentance.

I know what I’ll do so that when I’m removed from management, people will welcome me into their homes.’

“The master praised the unrighteous manager because he had acted astutely. For the sons of this age are more astute than the sons of light in dealing with their own people.

And He told them: “You are the ones who justify yourselves in the sight of others, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly admired by people is revolting in God’s sight.

People went on eating, drinking, marrying and giving in marriage until the day Noah boarded the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.

It will be the same as it was in the days of Lot: People went on eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building.

The Pharisee took his stand and was praying like this: ‘God, I thank You that I’m not like other people —greedy, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

Some people were even bringing infants to Him so He might touch them, but when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them.

Instantly he could see, and he began to follow Him, glorifying God. All the people, when they saw it, gave praise to God.

Every day He was teaching in the temple complex. The chief priests, the scribes, and the leaders of the people were looking for a way to destroy Him,

but they could not find a way to do it, because all the people were captivated by what they heard.

One day as He was teaching the people in the temple complex and proclaiming the good news, the chief priests and the scribes, with the elders, came up

But if we say, ‘From men,’ all the people will stone us, because they are convinced that John was a prophet.”

Then He began to tell the people this parable: “A man planted a vineyard, leased it to tenant farmers, and went away for a long time.

Then the scribes and the chief priests looked for a way to get their hands on Him that very hour, because they knew He had told this parable against them, but they feared the people.

While all the people were listening, He said to His disciples,

For all these people have put in gifts out of their surplus, but she out of her poverty has put in all she had to live on.”

Woe to pregnant women and nursing mothers in those days, for there will be great distress in the land and wrath against this people.

People will faint from fear and expectation of the things that are coming on the world, because the celestial powers will be shaken.

Then all the people would come early in the morning to hear Him in the temple complex.

The chief priests and the scribes were looking for a way to put Him to death, because they were afraid of the people.

When daylight came, the elders of the people, both the chief priests and the scribes, convened and brought Him before their Sanhedrin.

But they kept insisting, “He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, from Galilee where He started even to here.”

Pilate called together the chief priests, the leaders, and the people,

and said to them, “You have brought me this man as one who subverts the people. But in fact, after examining Him in your presence, I have found no grounds to charge this man with those things you accuse Him of.

A large crowd of people followed Him, including women who were mourning and lamenting Him.

The people stood watching, and even the leaders kept scoffing: “He saved others; let Him save Himself if this is God’s Messiah, the Chosen One!”

“What things?” He asked them.So they said to Him, “The things concerning Jesus the Nazarene, who was a Prophet powerful in action and speech before God and all the people,

He came to His own,and His own people did not receive Him.

and told him, “Everyone sets out the fine wine first, then, after people have drunk freely, the inferior. But you have kept the fine wine until now.”

In the temple complex He found people selling oxen, sheep, and doves, and He also found the money changers sitting there.

“This, then, is the judgment: The light has come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil.

John also was baptizing in Aenon near Salim, because there was plenty of water there. People were coming and being baptized,

But an hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. Yes, the Father wants such people to worship Him.

Jesus told him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will not believe.”

so that all people will honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Anyone who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.

Therefore, when Jesus looked up and noticed a huge crowd coming toward Him, He asked Philip, “Where will we buy bread so these people can eat?”

Then Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.”There was plenty of grass in that place, so they sat down. The men numbered about 5,000.

When the people saw the sign He had done, they said, “This really is the Prophet who was to come into the world!”

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.”

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

At dawn He went to the temple complex again, and all the people were coming to Him. He sat down and began to teach them.

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

As for Me, if I am lifted up from the earth I will draw all people to Myself.”

By this all people will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”

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

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.