'People' in the Bible

and she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sins.'

and having gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he was inquiring from them where the Christ is born.

And thou, Beth-Lehem, the land of Judah, thou art by no means the least among the leaders of Judah, for out of thee shall come one leading, who shall feed My people Israel.'

the people that is sitting in darkness saw a great light, and to those sitting in a region and shadow of death -- light arose to them.'

And Jesus was going about all Galilee teaching in their synagogues, and proclaiming the good news of the reign, and healing every disease, and every malady among the people,

And Jesus was going up and down all the cities and the villages, teaching in their synagogues, and proclaiming the good news of the reign, and healing every sickness and every malady among the people.

for made gross was the heart of this people, and with the ears they heard heavily, and their eyes they did close, lest they might see with the eyes, and with the ears might hear, and with the heart understand, and turn back, and I might heal them.

This people doth draw nigh to Me with their mouth, and with the lips it doth honour Me, but their heart is far off from Me;

And he having come to the temple, there came to him when teaching the chief priests and the elders of the people, saying, 'By what authority dost thou do these things? and who gave thee this authority?'

Then were gathered together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, to the court of the chief priest who was called Caiaphas;

and they said, 'Not in the feast, that there may not be a tumult among the people.'

And while he is yet speaking, lo, Judas, one of the twelve did come, and with him a great multitude, with swords and sticks, from the chief priests and elders of the people.

And morning having come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus, so as to put him to death;

and all the people answering said, 'His blood is upon us, and upon our children!'

command, then, the sepulchre to be made secure till the third day, lest his disciples, having come by night, may steal him away, and may say to the people, He rose from the dead, and the last deceit shall be worse than the first.'

and he was not able there any mighty work to do, except on a few infirm people having put hands he did heal them;

and he answering said to them -- 'Well did Isaiah prophesy concerning you, hypocrites, as it hath been written, This people with the lips doth honour Me, and their heart is far from Me;

But if we may say, From men,' -- they were fearing the people, for all were holding John that he was indeed a prophet;

and they said, 'Not in the feast, lest there shall be a tumult of the people.'

and all the multitude of the people were praying without, at the hour of the perfume.

and he shall go before Him, in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn hearts of fathers unto children, and disobedient ones to the wisdom of righteous ones, to make ready for the Lord, a people prepared.'

And the people were waiting for Zacharias, and wondering at his tarrying in the sanctuary,

Blessed is the Lord, the God of Israel, Because He did look upon, And wrought redemption for His people,

To give knowledge of salvation to His people In remission of their sins,

And the messenger said to them, 'Fear not, for lo, I bring you good news of great joy, that shall be to all the people --

a light to the uncovering of nations, and the glory of Thy people Israel.'

And the people are looking forward, and all are reasoning in their hearts concerning John, whether or not he may be the Christ;

And, therefore, indeed with many other things, exhorting, he was proclaiming good news to the people,

And it came to pass, in all the people being baptised, Jesus also being baptised, and praying, the heaven was opened,

and having come down with them, he stood upon a level spot, and a crowd of his disciples, and a great multitude of the people from all Judea, and Jerusalem, and the maritime Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear him, and to be healed of their sicknesses,

And when he completed all his sayings in the ears of the people, he went into Capernaum;

and fear took hold of all, and they were glorifying God, saying -- 'A great prophet hath risen among us,' and -- 'God did look upon His people.'

And all the people having heard, and the tax-gatherers, declared God righteous, having been baptized with the baptism of John,

And the woman, having seen that she was not hid, trembling, came, and having fallen before him, for what cause she touched him declared to him before all the people, and how she was healed presently;

And he said unto them, 'Give ye them to eat;' and they said, 'We have no more than five loaves, and two fishes: except, having gone, we may buy for all this people victuals;'

and presently he did receive sight, and was following him, glorifying God; and all the people, having seen, did give praise to God.

And he was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief priests and the scribes were seeking to destroy him -- also the chiefs of the people --

and they were not finding what they shall do, for all the people were hanging on him, hearing him.

And it came to pass, on one of those days, as he is teaching the people in the temple, and proclaiming good news, the chief priests and the scribes, with the elders, came upon him,

and if we may say, From men, all the people will stone us, for they are having been persuaded John to be a prophet.'

And he began to speak unto the people this simile: 'A certain man planted a vineyard, and gave it out to husbandmen, and went abroad for a long time,

And the chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him in that hour, and they feared the people, for they knew that against them he spake this simile.

and they were not able to take hold on his saying before the people, and having wondered at his answer, they were silent.

And, all the people hearing, he said to his disciples,

'And woe to those with child, and to those giving suck, in those days; for there shall be great distress on the land, and wrath on this people;

and all the people were coming early unto him in the temple to hear him.

and the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how they may take him up, for they were afraid of the people.

And when it became day there was gathered together the eldership of the people, chief priests also, and scribes, and they led him up to their own sanhedrim,

and they were the more urgent, saying -- 'He doth stir up the people, teaching throughout the whole of Judea -- having begun from Galilee -- unto this place.'

And Pilate having called together the chief priests, and the rulers, and the people,

said unto them, 'Ye brought to me this man as perverting the people, and lo, I before you having examined, found in this man no fault in those things ye bring forward against him;

And there was following him a great multitude of the people, and of women, who also were beating themselves and lamenting him,

And the people were standing, looking on, and the rulers also were sneering with them, saying, 'Others he saved, let him save himself, if this be the Christ, the choice one of God.'

And he said to them, 'What things?' And they said to him, 'The things about Jesus of Nazareth, who became a man -- a prophet -- powerful in deed and word, before God and all the people,

to his own things he came, and his own people did not receive him;

and all the people were coming unto him, and having sat down, he was teaching them;

nor reason that it is good for us that one man may die for the people, and not the whole nation perish.'

and Caiaphas was he who gave counsel to the Jews, that it is good for one man to perish for the people.

praising God, and having favour with all the people, and the Lord was adding those being saved every day to the assembly.

and all the people saw him walking and praising God,

And at the lame man who was healed holding Peter and John, all the people ran together unto them in the porch called Solomon's -- greatly amazed,

and Peter having seen, answered unto the people, 'Men, Israelites! why wonder ye at this? or on us why look ye so earnestly, as if by our own power or piety we have made him to walk?

and it shall be, every soul that may not hear that prophet shall be utterly destroyed out of the people;

And as they are speaking unto the people, there came to them the priests, and the magistrate of the temple, and the Sadducees --

being grieved because of their teaching the people, and preaching in Jesus the rising again out of the dead --

Then Peter, having been filled with the Holy Spirit, said unto them: 'Rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,

be it known to all of you, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye did crucify, whom God did raise out of the dead, in him hath this one stood by before you whole.

but that it may spread no further toward the people, let us strictly threaten them no more to speak in this name to any man.'

And they having further threatened them, let them go, finding nothing how they may punish them, because of the people, because all were glorifying God for that which hath been done,

And through the hands of the apostles came many signs and wonders among the people, and they were with one accord all in the porch of Solomon;

and of the rest no one was daring to join himself to them, but the people were magnifying them,

and there were coming together also the people of the cities round about to Jerusalem, bearing ailing persons, and those harassed by unclean spirits -- who were all healed.

'Go on, and standing, speak in the temple to the people all the sayings of this life;'

and coming near, a certain one told them, saying -- 'Lo, the men whom ye did put in the prison are in the temple standing and teaching the people;'

then the magistrate having gone away with officers, brought them without violence, for they were fearing the people, lest they should be stoned;

but a certain one, having risen up in the sanhedrim -- a Pharisee, by name Gamaliel, a teacher of law honoured by all the people -- commanded to put the apostles forth a little,

'After this one rose up, Judas the Galilean, in the days of the enrolment, and drew away much people after him, and that one perished, and all, as many as were obeying him, were scattered;

And Stephen, full of faith and power, was doing great wonders and signs among the people,

They did stir up also the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and having come upon him, they caught him, and brought him to the sanhedrim;

'And according as the time of the promise was drawing nigh, which God did swear to Abraham, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt,

seeing I have seen the affliction of My people that is in Egypt, and their groaning I did hear, and came down to deliver them; and now come, I will send thee to Egypt.

pious, and fearing God with all his house, doing also many kind acts to the people, and beseeching God always,

not to all the people, but to witnesses, to those having been chosen before by God -- to us who did eat with him, and did drink with him, after his rising out of the dead;

and he commanded us to preach to the people, and to testify fully that it is he who hath been ordained by God judge of living and dead --

whom also having seized, he did put in prison, having delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to guard him, intending after the passover to bring him forth to the people.

And Peter having come to himself, said, 'Now I have known of a truth that the Lord did sent forth His messenger, and did deliver me out of the hand of Herod, and all the expectation of the people of the Jews;'

and after the reading of the law and of the prophets, the chief men of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, 'Men, brethren, if there be a word in you of exhortation unto the people -- say on.'

the God of this people Israel did choose our fathers, and the people He did exalt in their sojourning in the land of Egypt, and with an high arm did He bring them out of it;

John having first preached, before his coming, a baptism of reformation to all the people of Israel;

and he was seen for many days of those who did come up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses unto the people.

Simeon did declare how at first God did look after to take out of the nations a people for His name,

because I am with thee, and no one shall set on thee to do thee evil; because I have much people in this city;'

And Paul said, 'John, indeed, did baptize with a baptism of reformation, saying to the people that in him who is coming after him they should believe -- that is, in the Christ -- Jesus;'

crying out, 'Men, Israelites, help! this is the man who, against the people, and the law, and this place, all everywhere is teaching; and further, also, Greeks he brought into the temple, and hath defiled this holy place;'

All the city also was moved and there was a running together of the people, and having laid hold on Paul, they were drawing him out of the temple, and immediately were the doors shut,

for the crowd of the people was following after, crying, 'Away with him.'

And Paul said, 'I, indeed, am a man, a Jew, of Tarsus of Cilicia, of no mean city a citizen; and I beseech thee, suffer me to speak unto the people.'

And he having given him leave, Paul having stood upon the stairs, did beckon with the hand to the people, and there having been a great silence, he spake unto them in the Hebrew dialect, saying:

and Paul said, 'I did not know, brethren, that he is chief priest: for it hath been written, Of the ruler of thy people thou shalt not speak evil;'

delivering thee from the people, and the nations, to whom now I send thee,