18 Bible Verses about Crowds Seeking

When it was day, he departed and went into an uninhabited place, and the multitudes looked for him, and came to him, and held on to him, so that he wouldn't go away from them.

It happened, when Jesus returned, that the multitude welcomed him, for they were all waiting for him.

It happened on the next day, when they had come down from the mountain, that a great multitude met him.

For this cause also the multitude went and met him, because they heard that he had done this sign.

Immediately all the multitude, when they saw him, were greatly amazed, and running to him greeted him.

Great multitudes came to him, having with them the lame, blind, mute, maimed, and many others, and they put them down at his feet. He healed them,

from Jerusalem, from Idumaea, beyond the Jordan, and those from around Tyre and Sidon. A great multitude, hearing what great things he did, came to him.

The multitude, crying aloud, began to ask him to do as he always did for them.

While he was still speaking, behold, a multitude, and he who was called Judas, one of the twelve, was leading them. He came near to Jesus to kiss him.

A large crowd therefore of the Jews learned that he was there, and they came, not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.

The multitudes asked him, "What then must we do?"

Now at the feast the governor was accustomed to release to the multitude one prisoner, whom they desired.

When the multitudes were gathering together to him, he began to say, "This is an evil generation. It seeks after a sign. No sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah, the prophet.

While he was yet speaking to the multitudes, behold, his mother and his brothers stood outside, seeking to speak to him.

A multitude was sitting around him, and they told him, "Behold, your mother, your brothers, and your sisters are outside looking for you."

When the multitude therefore saw that Jesus wasn't there, nor his disciples, they themselves got into the boats, and came to Capernaum, seeking Jesus.

He was trying to see who Jesus was, and couldn't because of the crowd, because he was short.

Jesus answered them, "Most certainly I tell you, you seek me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves, and were filled.