'Us' in the Bible

For he was numbered among us, and had his part in our work.

For this reason, of the men who have been with us all the time, while the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,

Starting from the baptism of John till he went up from us, one will have to be a witness with us of his coming back from death.

And how is it that every one of us is hearing their words in the language which was ours from our birth?

Men of Crete and Arabia, to all of us they are talking in our different languages, of the great works of God.

My brothers, I may say to you openly that David came to his death, and was put in the earth, and his resting-place is with us today.

And Peter, looking at him, with John, said, Keep your eyes on us.

And when Peter saw it he said to the people, You men of Israel, why are you so greatly surprised at this man? or why are you looking at us as if by our power or virtue we had given him the use of his legs?

But so that it may not go farther among the people, let us put them in fear of punishment if they say anything in future in this name.

For it is not possible for us to keep from saying what we have seen and have knowledge of.

We gave you very clear orders not to give teaching in this name: and now Jerusalem is full of your teaching, and you are attempting to make us responsible for this man's death.

And the Apostles sent for all the disciples and said, It is not right for us to give up preaching the word of God in order to make distribution of food.

For he has said in our hearing that this Jesus of Nazareth will put this place to destruction and make changes in the rules which were handed down to us by Moses.

But the man who was doing wrong to his neighbour, pushing him away, said, Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?

And saying to Aaron, Make us gods to go before us: as for this Moses, who took us out of the land of Egypt, we have no idea what has become of him.

Not by all the people, but by witnesses marked out before by God, even by us, who took food and drink with him after he came back from the dead.

And he gave us orders to give news of this to the people, and to give public witness that this is he whom God has made judge of the living and the dead.

And he gave us an account of how he had seen the angel in his house, saying, Send to Joppa, and get Simon, named Peter, to come to you;

And, while I was talking to them, the Holy Spirit came on them, as on us at first.

If then God gave them, when they had faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, the same as he gave to us, who was I to go against God?

And hearing these things they said nothing more, but gave glory to God, saying, Then to the Gentiles as to us has God given a change of heart, so that they may have life.

My brothers, children of the family of Abraham, and those among you who have the fear of God, to us the word of this salvation is sent.

For so the Lord has given us orders, saying, I have given you for a light to the Gentiles so that you may be for salvation to the ends of the earth.

And when the people saw what Paul had done, they said in a loud voice, in the language of Lycaonia, The gods have come down to us in the form of men.

And God, the searcher of hearts, was a witness to them, giving them the Holy Spirit even as he did to us;

Making no division between them and us, but making clean their hearts by faith.

Because we have knowledge that some who went from us have been troubling you with their words, putting your souls in doubt; to whom we gave no such order;

It seemed good to us, having come to an agreement together, to send these men to you, with our well loved Barnabas and Paul,

For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us, to put on you nothing more than these necessary things;

And after some days, Paul said to Barnabas, Let us go back and see the brothers in every town where we have given the word of God, and see how they are.

And Paul had a vision in the night; a man of Macedonia came, requesting him, and saying, Come over into Macedonia and give us help.

And when he had seen the vision, straight away we made the decision to go into Macedonia, for it seemed certain to us that God had sent us to give the good news to them.

And a certain woman named Lydia, a trader in purple cloth of the town of Thyatira, and a God-fearing woman, gave ear to us: whose heart the Lord made open to give attention to the things which Paul was saying.

And when she and her family had had baptism, she made a request to us, saying, If it seems to you that I am true to the Lord, come into my house and be my guests. And she made us come.

She came after Paul and us, crying out and saying, These men are the servants of the Most High God, who are giving you news of the way of salvation.

Teaching rules of living which it is not right for us to have or to keep, being Romans.

But Paul said to them, They have given us who are Romans a public whipping without judging us, and have put us in prison. Will they now send us out secretly? no, truly, let them come themselves and take us out.

And they took him to Mars' Hill, saying, Will you make clear to us what is this new teaching of yours?

For you seem to us to say strange things, and we have a desire to get the sense of them.

So that they might make search for God, in order, if possible, to get knowledge of him and make discovery of him, though he is not far from every one of us:

If then we are the offspring of God, it is not right for us to have the idea that God is like gold or silver or stone, formed by the art or design of man.

Now on hearing about the coming back from death, some of them made sport of it, but others said, Let us go more fully into this another time.

But these had gone before, and were waiting for us at Troas.

And when he came up with us at Assos, we took him in the ship and went on to Mitylene.

And when these days came to an end, we went on our journey; and they all, with their wives and children, came with us on our way till we were out of the town: and after going on our knees in prayer by the sea,

And he came to us, and took the band of Paul's clothing, and putting it round his feet and hands, said, The Holy Spirit says these words, So will the Jews do to the man who is the owner of this band, and they will give him up into the hands of the Gentiles.

And some of the disciples from Caesarea went with us, taking a certain Mnason of Cyprus, one of the early disciples, in whose house we were to be living.

And when we came to Jerusalem, the brothers were pleased to see us.

And on the day after, Paul went with us to James, and all the rulers of the church were present.

And Festus said, King Agrippa, and all those who are present here with us, you see this man, about whom all the Jews have made protests to me, at Jerusalem and in this place, saying that it is not right for him to be living any longer.

And Agrippa said to Paul, You may put your cause before us. Then Paul, stretching out his hand, made his answer, saying:

And we went to sea in a ship of Adramyttium which was sailing to the sea towns of Asia, Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, being with us.

And sailing again from there, we went on under cover of Cyprus, because the wind was against us.

And there the captain came across a ship of Alexandria, sailing for Italy, and put us in it.

And when we had gone on slowly for a long time, and had had hard work getting across to Cnidus, for the wind was against us, we went under cover of Crete, in the direction of Salmone;

And as we had not seen the sun or stars for a long time, and a great storm was on us, all hope of salvation was gone.

And the simple people living there were uncommonly kind to us, for they made a fire for us, and took us in, because it was raining and cold.

Now near that place there was some land, the property of the chief man of the island, who was named Publius; who very kindly took us into his house as his guests for three days.

Then they gave us great honour, and, when we went away, they put into the ship whatever things we were in need of.

Where we came across some of the brothers, who kept us with them for seven days; and so we came to Rome.

And the brothers, when they had news of us, came out from town as far as Appii Forum and the Three Taverns to have a meeting with us: and Paul, seeing them, gave praise to God and took heart.

And they said to him, We have not had letters from Judaea about you, and no one of the brothers has come to us here to give an account or say any evil about you.