175 occurrences in 12 translations

'Town' in the Bible

Then he went and settled in a town called Nazareth to fulfill what was spoken through the prophets, that He will be called a Nazarene.

Verse ConceptsGospel, Confirmation OfNazarethChrist's Fulfilment Of ProphecyBranches, Illustrating MessiahScriptures Fulfilled

and leaving Nazareth He went and settled at Capernaum, a town by the Lake on the frontiers of Zebulun and Naphtali,

Verse Conceptslakes

Or by the earth, because it is the resting-place for his foot; or by Jerusalem, because it is the town of the great King.

Verse ConceptsGod, Greatness OfFootstoolsFeetNames For JerusalemCitySwearing

The herdsmen ran off, went into the town, and told everything that had happened to the demon-possessed men.

Verse ConceptsTelling Of JesusStock Keeping

At that, the whole town went out to meet Jesus. When they saw Him, they begged Him to leave their region.

Verse ConceptsDemons, Delivered FromRejection Of ChristLeaving

So He got into a boat, crossed over, and came to His own town.

Verse ConceptsSeafaringBoatsCrossing To The Other Side

Now when Jesus realized what they were thinking, he said to them, "Every kingdom divided against itself is destroyed, and no town or house divided against itself will stand.

Verse ConceptsdisagreementsCivil StrifeThoughtJesus Christ, Omniscience OfHow Jesus Knows The HeartDisharmonyMan's ThoughtsChrist Knowing About PeoplePeople Destroying Foreign NationsDisunitydivision

He came to His hometown and began teaching them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished, and said, “Where did this man get this wisdom and these miraculous powers?

Verse ConceptsPower, God's SavingSabbath, In NtTownAmazement, Of Jesus ChristTeaching WisdomChrist's WisdomChrist TeachingWhere From?

And they took offense at Him. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown and in his own household.”

Verse ConceptsStumbling Over ChristUnderestimationProphecy Ignoredhonour

Saying to them, Go into the little town in front of you, and straight away you will see an ass with a cord round her neck, and a young one with her; let them loose and come with them to me.

Verse ConceptsDonkeysRopesAnimal OffspringOpposite SidesEntering CitiesFinding ThingsBinding As Animals

And when he came into Jerusalem, all the town was moved, saying, Who is this?

Verse ConceptsEntering CitiesWho Is Jesus?

And he went away from them, and went out of the town to Bethany, and was there for the night.

Verse ConceptsVisitingStaying Temporarily

Now in the morning when he was coming back to the town, he had a desire for food.

Verse ConceptsBody Of Christ, Physical Body

But the king was angry; and he sent his armies, and those who had put his servants to death he gave to destruction, burning down their town with fire.

Verse ConceptsGod KillingBurning CitiesGod KillsAngry People

This is why I am sending you prophets, sages, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will flog in your synagogues and hound from town to town.

Verse ConceptsFloggingMediatorSuffering, Of BelieversTownCharacter AssassinationBeating BelieversCrucifiedKilling Will HappenOthers CrucifiedWise Men In The Church

And he said to them, Go into the town to such a man, and say to him, The Master says, My time is near: I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples.

Verse ConceptsForeknowledgeGod, Purpose OfGuestsEntering CitiesNear The Time PersonallyOther References To The DisciplesTimes Of The ChristGuest Rooms

And coming out of their resting-places, after he had come again from the dead, they went into the holy town and were seen by a number of people.

Verse ConceptsHoliness, As Set Apart For GodPeople AppearingChrist Would RiseThe ResurrectionBurying placesLife After DeathRosesJesus Death

Now, while they were going, some of the watchmen came into the town and gave news to the chief priests of all the things which had taken place.

Verse ConceptsEntering CitiesTelling Of HappeningsThe Chief Priests Condemning Christ

"Let's go to the neighboring town," he replied, "so I can preach there, too, because that's why I came."

Verse ConceptsGoalsHeraldPreaching, Importance OfChrist PreachingWhy God Did Things

Yet he went out and began to proclaim it widely and to spread the news, with the result that Jesus could no longer enter a town openly. But He was out in deserted places, and they would come to Him from everywhere.

Verse ConceptsUnwise ZealGod's Deed RevealedTemporary Stay In The Wildernesslonliness

The men who tended them ran off and reported it in the town and the countryside, and people went to see what had happened.

Verse ConceptsLooking And SeeingTelling Of Jesus

Jesus went out from there and *came into His hometown; and His disciples *followed Him.

Verse ConceptsDisciples' Movements

Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown and among his own relatives and in his own household.”

Verse ConceptsProphecy, In NtMisused PrivilegesHatred Between RelativesProphecy IgnoredFamiliesheroes

And He said to them, “Wherever you enter a house, stay there until you leave town.

Verse ConceptsGuestsHospitality, Examples OfProperty, HousesTownMotionlessnessStaying PutEntering Houses

Any place that does not welcome you or listen to you, when you leave there, shake the dust off the soles of your feet as a testimony against them [breaking all ties with them because they rejected My message].”

Verse ConceptsGesturesFeetHospitality, A Duty Of God's PeopleOpportunities, And SalvationWiping DustPeople Abandoning Peoplefatedustwelcome

And enter wherever He might--village or town or hamlet--they laid their sick in the open places, and entreated Him to let them touch were it but the tassel of His robe; and all, whoever touched Him, were restored to health.

Verse ConceptsFaith, Growth InCloaksBeggarsMarketsTasselsStreetsOuter GarmentsFringe Of ClothesTouching For HealingJesus Healing

And he took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the town; and when he had spit on his eyes, and put his hands upon him, he asked him if he saw ought.

Verse ConceptsSpittingSalivaLaying On Hands To HealEyes Cared ForThe Faculty Of Sight

And he sent him away to his house, saying, Neither go into the town, nor tell it to any in the town.

Verse ConceptsEntering CitiesChrist Concealing Things

They came to Jericho; and as He was leaving that town--Himself and His disciples and a great crowd--Bartimaeus (the son of Timaeus)

Verse ConceptsBeggarsLargenessBeggingCrowds Around JesusUsing RoadsDisciples' Movements

And said to them, Go into the little town opposite: and when you come to it, you will see a young ass with a cord round his neck, on which no man has ever been seated; let him loose, and come back with him.

Verse ConceptsOpposite SidesUnusedBinding As Animals

And he sent two of his disciples, and said to them, Go into the town, and there will come to you a man with a vessel of water: go after him;

Verse ConceptsTwo DisciplesWater ContainersMan Providing WaterCarrying Other Loads

And the disciples went out and came into the town, and saw that it was as he had said: and they made ready the Passover.

Verse ConceptsFinding ThingsThe Disciples Reactions

In those days Mary set out and hurried to a town in the hill country of Judah

Verse ConceptsHillsHasty Action

And Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family line of David,

Verse ConceptsCity Of DavidGod Shows Loving KindnessRelativesNativity of Jesus ChristJesus Birth

When they had completed everything according to the law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee, to their own town of Nazareth.

Verse ConceptsAccording To ThingsFulfilling The Law

And He said to them, “No doubt you will quote this proverb to Me, ‘Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we heard was done at Capernaum, do here in your hometown as well.’”

Verse ConceptsdoctorsPhysicianInfidelity To GodGod As DoctorJesus HealingOld Sayings

They got up, drove Him out of town, and brought Him to the edge of the hill that their town was built on, intending to hurl Him over the cliff.

Verse ConceptsRejection Of ChristPersecution Of ChristThrowing PeopleDriving Out ChristPeople Getting Upjumping

Then He went down to Capernaum, a town in Galilee, and was teaching them on the Sabbath.

Verse ConceptsTown

Next morning, at daybreak, He left the town and went away to a solitary place; but the people flocked out to find Him, and, coming to the place where He was, they endeavoured to detain Him that He might not leave them.

Verse ConceptsDawnHabitsSeeking ChristSolitudeCrowds SeekingLeaving

And it came to pass on a certain day, as he was teaching, that there were Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, which were come out of every town of Galilee, and Judaea, and Jerusalem: and the power of the Lord was present to heal them.

Verse ConceptsGod, Power OfPower, God's SavingVillagesPower Of Christ, ShownThe Power Of GodChrist TeachingJesus HealingPharisees Concerned About ChristAtmosphereThe power of Christ

Soon afterward He was on His way to a town called Nain. His disciples and a large crowd were traveling with Him.

Verse ConceptsCrowds Around JesusDisciples' Movements

Just as He neared the gate of the town, a dead man was being carried out. He was his mother’s only son, and she was a widow. A large crowd from the city was also with her.

Verse ConceptsGatesCrowdsLonelinessWidowsCrowds Around JesusThe Only ChildCarrying Dead BodiesOnly Child Of PeopleActual WidowsCorpses Of Other PeopleDeath Of A Mother

And a woman in the town who was a sinner found out that Jesus was reclining at the table in the Pharisee’s house. She brought an alabaster jar of fragrant oil

Verse ConceptsOintmentBoxesReclining To Eat

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

Verse ConceptsCrowdsCrowds Around Jesusgathering

When He got out on land, a demon-possessed man from the town met Him. For a long time he had worn no clothes and did not stay in a house but in the tombs.

Verse ConceptsLonelinessSpiritsNaked In PovertyMeeting PeopleAction For A Long TimeThose DemonisedDemons

When the men who tended them saw what had happened, they ran off and reported it in the town and in the countryside.

Verse ConceptsLooking And SeeingOthers Who FledTelling Of JesusStock Keeping

“Go back to your home, and tell all that God has done for you.” And off he went, proclaiming throughout the town all that Jesus had done for him.

Verse ConceptsExperience, of Godevangelists, identity ofTestify On God's BehalfFervourZealousness, Examples OfChrist's WorkTelling Of JesusFamily And FriendsGod Turning Bad Things Into Good

When the apostles returned, they reported to Jesus all that they had done. He took them along and withdrew privately to a town called Bethsaida.

Verse ConceptsApostles, During Jesus Earthly MinistryRetirementTelling What People DidThe Apostles In Actionfeedback

And he sent men before: and they came to a small town of Samaria to make ready for him.

Verse ConceptsPeople Going BeforeA Place Prepared

And they went to another small town.

Verse ConceptsSpirit Of Christmums

When you enter any town, and they don’t welcome you, go out into its streets and say,

Verse ConceptsNot Welcoming PeopleUsing Roadswelcome

‘We are wiping off as a witness against you even the dust of your town that clings to our feet. Know this for certain: The kingdom of God has come near.’

Verse ConceptsGesturesWiping DustPeople Abandoning PeopleGod's Blessings Are NearKnowing About God's Kingdom

I tell you, on that day it will be more tolerable for Sodom than for that town.

Verse ConceptsSodom And GomorrahUnbearable ThingsGod TroublingJudgement Day

He went through one town and village after another, teaching and making His way to Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsChrist Teaching

"So the servant went back and reported all this to his master. Then the master of the house became angry and told his servant, "Go quickly into the streets and alleys of the town and bring back the poor, the crippled, the blind, and the lame.'

Verse ConceptsAnger, HumanPoverty, Remedies ForStreetsHasteUsing RoadsTelling What People DidAngry People

And when he went into a certain small town he came across ten men who were lepers, and they, keeping themselves at a distance,

Verse ConceptsLeprosyHealingLonelinessQuarantiningHygieneCrying To JesusQuarantineTen PeopleStanding At A Distance

And a widow in that town kept coming to him, saying, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’

Verse ConceptsWidowsSaying RepeatedlyRevengeProtection From Enemiesvindication

So He entered Jericho and was passing through the town.

Verse ConceptsGod's Mercy, Example OfPassing Through

Saying, Go into the little town in front of you, and on going in you will see a young ass fixed with a cord, on which no man has ever been seated; let him loose and take him.

Verse ConceptsRopesOpposite SidesUnusedBinding As AnimalsAnimals Serving Human Needs

Then let those who are in Judaea go in flight to the mountains; and those who are in the middle of the town go out; and let not those who are in the country come in.

Verse ConceptsEscaping To MountainsEntering Cities

And he said to them, When you go into the town you will see a man coming to you with a vessel of water; go after him into the house into which he goes.

Verse ConceptsWater ContainersEntering HousesMan Providing WaterCarrying Other Loads

Now this man was in prison because of an attack against the government in the town, in which there had been loss of life

Verse ConceptsCriminalsImprisonmentsPrisonersJudged As Murderers

A man named Joseph, who was a member of the Council (Sanhedrin, Jewish High Court), a good and honorable man

Verse ConceptsChristmas Treeassertiveness

who had not agreed with their plan and action. He was from Arimathea, a Judean town, and was looking forward to the kingdom of God.

Verse ConceptsKingdom Of God, Coming OfWaiting

And then, two of them, on that very day, were going to a little town named Emmaus, which was about seven miles from Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsWeights And Measures, LinearTwo Disciples

And they came near the town to which they were going, and he seemed as if he was going on;

Verse ConceptsDestinations

(Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the town of Andrew and Peter.)

Verse ConceptsPeter, The Disciple

so He came to a town of Samaria called Sychar near the property that Jacob had given his son Joseph.

Verse ConceptsTownPeople Giving Other Thingshumor

Then the woman left her water jar, went into town, and told the men,

Verse ConceptsWater ContainersAbandoning Thingspotwomanhood

They left the town and made their way to Him.

Verse ConceptsComing To Christ

Hath not the scripture said, That Christ cometh of the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was?

Verse ConceptsCovenant, God's with DavidBethlehemJesus As Son Of DavidChrist's OriginMessiahScripture SaysJesus Birth

Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha.

Verse ConceptsdiseasesSick Individualsoverworkinglazarus

Now Jesus was not yet come into the town, but was in that place where Martha met him.

Verse ConceptsStaying Put

Therefore Jesus no longer walked openly among the Jews but departed from there to the countryside near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim. And He stayed there with the disciples.

Verse ConceptsActing In SecretDisciples' MovementsTemporary Stay In The Wilderness

The writing was seen by a number of the Jews, for the place where Jesus was put to death on the cross was near the town; and the writing was in Hebrew and Latin and Greek.

Verse ConceptsLanguagesLiteracyAramaic LanguageReading Other Mattercrucifixion

Bible Theasaurus

Townspeople (3 instances)

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain

Holman Christian Standard Bible®, Copyright © 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2009 by Holman Bible Publishers.

International Standard Version Copyright © 1996-2008 by the ISV Foundation.

King James Version Public Domain

New American Standard Bible Copyright ©1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. All rights reserved. For Permission to Quote Information visit http://www.lockman.org

NET Bible copyright © 1996-2006 by Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. NetBible