'Thing' in the Bible

you know the thing that happened throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee, after the baptism that John proclaimed:

So some were shouting [one thing] [and] some another, for the assembly was in confusion, and the majority did not know {why} they had assembled.

But some in the crowd were shouting one thing [and] others [another], and [because] he was not able to find out the truth on account of the commotion, he gave orders to bring him into the barracks.