'People' in the Bible

People from the whole Judean countryside and all the people of Jerusalem were flocking to him, being baptized by him while they confessed their sins.

Jesus told them, "Follow me, and I'll make you fishers of people!"

The people were utterly amazed at his teaching, because he was teaching them like one with authority, and not like their scribes.

All the people were so stunned that they kept saying to each other, "What is this? A new teaching with authority! He tells even the unclean spirits what to do, and they obey him!"

When evening came, after the sun had set, people started bringing to him everyone who was sick or possessed by demons.

But when the man left, he began to proclaim it freely. He spread the news so widely that Jesus could no longer enter a town openly, but had to stay out in deserted places. Still, people kept coming to him from everywhere.

when some people came and brought him a paralyzed man being carried by four men.

So the man got up, immediately picked up his mat, and went out in front of all of them. As a result, all of the people were amazed and began to glorify God as they kept on saying, "We have never seen anything like this!"

When Jesus heard that, he told them, "Healthy people don't need a physician, but sick ones do. I did not come to call righteous people, but sinners."

Now John's disciples and the Pharisees would fast regularly. Some people came and asked Jesus, "Why do John's disciples and the Pharisees' disciples fast, but your disciples don't fast?"

Then he told them, "The Sabbath was made for people, not people for the Sabbath.

The people watched Jesus closely to see whether he would heal him on the Sabbath, intending to accuse him of doing something wrong.

because he had healed so many people that everyone who had diseases kept crowding up against him in order to touch him.

But he sternly ordered them again and again not to tell people who he was.

I tell all of you with certainty, people will be forgiven their sins and whatever blasphemies they utter.

Then looking at the people sitting around him, he said, "Here are my mother and my brothers!

Some people are like the seeds along the path, where the word is sown. When they hear it, Satan immediately comes and takes away the word that was sown in them.

Still others are like the seeds sown among the thorn bushes. These are the people who hear the word,

Now when those who had been taking care of the pigs ran away, they reported what had happened in the city and countryside. So the people went to see what had happened.

The people who had seen it told them what had happened to the demon-possessed man and the pigs.

While he was still speaking, some people came from the synagogue leader's home and said, "Your daughter is dead. Why bother the Teacher anymore?"

When they came to the home of the synagogue leader, Jesus saw mass confusion. People were crying and sobbing loudly.

He couldn't perform a miracle there except to lay his hands on a few sick people and heal them.

If any place will not welcome you and the people refuse to listen to you, when you leave, shake its dust off your feet as a testimony against them."

So they went and preached that people should repent.

An opportunity came during Herod's birthday celebration, when he gave a banquet for his top officials, military officers, and the most important people of Galilee.

He told them, "Come away to a deserted place all by yourselves and rest for a while," because so many people were coming and going that they didn't even have time to eat.

But when many people saw them leave and recognized them, they hurried on foot from all the towns and arrived ahead of them.

Then he ordered them to have all the people sit down in groups on the green grass.

Taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven and blessed them. Then he broke the loaves in pieces and kept giving them to his disciples to set before the people. He also divided the two fish among them all.

As soon as they got out of the boat, the people recognized Jesus.

Wherever he went, whether into villages, towns, or farms, people would place their sick in the marketplaces and beg him to let them touch even the tassel of his garment, and everyone who touched it was healed.

(The Pharisees and indeed all the Jewish people don't eat unless they wash their hands properly, following the tradition of their elders.

He told them, "Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites. As it is written, "These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.

Some people brought him a deaf man who also had a speech impediment. They begged him to lay his hand on him.

Jesus ordered the people not to tell anyone, but the more he kept ordering them, the more they kept spreading the news.

Amazed beyond measure, they kept on saying, "He does everything well! He even makes deaf people hear and mute people talk!"

His disciples answered him, "Where could anyone get enough bread to feed these people out here in the wilderness?"

The people ate and were filled. Then the disciples picked up the leftover pieces seven large baskets full.

Now about 4,000 men were there. Then he sent them on their way.

As they came to Bethsaida, some people brought a blind man to Jesus and begged him to touch him.

The man looked up and said, "I see people, but they look like trees walking around."

Then Jesus and his disciples set out for the villages around Caesarea Philippi. On the way he was asking his disciples, "Who do people say I am?"

But I tell you that Elijah has come, yet people treated him just as they pleased, as it is written about him."

Some people were bringing little children to Jesus to have him touch them. But the disciples rebuked those who brought them.

When Jesus saw this, he became furious and told them, "Let the little children come to me, and stop keeping them away, because the kingdom of God belongs to people like these.

because even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many people."

Many people sternly told him to be quiet, but he started shouting even louder, "Son of David, have mercy on me!"

Many people spread their coats on the road, while others spread leafy branches that they had cut in the fields.

When people rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage but are like the angels in heaven.

As Jesus sat facing the offering box, he watched how the crowd was dropping their money into it. Many rich people were dropping in large amounts.

Many will come in my name and say, "I AM,' and they will deceive many people.

"As for yourselves, be on your guard! People will hand you over to local councils, and you will be beaten in their synagogues. You will stand before governors and kings to testify to them because of me.

Then people will see "the Son of Man coming in clouds' with great power and glory.

because they kept saying, "This must not happen during the festival. Otherwise, there'll be a riot among the people."

He told them, "This is my blood of the covenant that is being poured out for many people.

Although many people gave false testimony against him, their testimony didn't agree.

Again he denied it. After a little while, the people who were standing there began to say to Peter again, "Obviously you're one of them, because you are a Galilean!"

At every festival, Pilate would release any one prisoner whom the people requested.

When some of the people standing there heard this, they said, "Listen! He's calling for Elijah!"