'Man' in the Bible

A man came, sent from God, {whose name was} John.

This one is [the one] about whom I said, 'After me is coming a man who is ahead of me, because he existed before me.'

And he said to him, "Truly, truly I say to all of you, you will see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man."

and because he did not {need} anyone {to testify} about man, for he himself knew what was in man.

Now there was a man of the Pharisees {whose name was} Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.

This man came to him at night and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that [you are] a teacher who has come from God, for no one is able to perform these signs that you are performing unless God were with him."

Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born [when he] is an old man? He is not able to enter into his mother's womb for the second time and be born, [can he]?"

And no one has ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven--the Son of Man.

And just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, thus it is necessary [that] the Son of Man be lifted up,

John answered and said, "A man can receive not one [thing] unless it is granted to him from heaven!

"Come, see a man who told me everything I have ever done! Perhaps this one is the Christ?"

This man, [when he] heard that Jesus had come from Judea into Galilee, went to him and asked that he come down and heal his son, for he was about to die.

Jesus said to him, "Go, your son will live." The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he departed.

And a certain man was there who had [been] thirty-eight years in his sickness.

And immediately the man became well and picked up his mat and began to walk. (Now it was the Sabbath on that day.)

So they asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, 'Pick up [your mat] and walk?'"

The man went and reported to the Jews that Jesus was the one who made him well.

And he has granted him authority to carry out judgment, because he is the Son of Man.

Do not work for the food that perishes, but the food that remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has set his seal on this one."

So the Jews began to quarrel {among themselves}, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"

Then Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life in yourselves!

Then [what] if you see the Son of Man ascending where he was before?

And there was a lot of grumbling concerning him among the crowds; some were saying, "He is a good [man]," but others were saying, "No, but he deceives the crowd."

Then the Jews were astonished, saying, "How does this man {possess knowledge}, [because he] has not been taught?"

Because of this Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is from Moses, but from the fathers), and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.

If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses would not be broken, are you angry with me because I made a whole man well on the Sabbath?

And behold, he is speaking openly and they are saying nothing to him! Can it be that the rulers truly know that this man is the Christ?

Yet we know where this man is from, but the Christ, whenever he comes--no one knows where he is from!"

But from the crowd many believed in him and were saying, "Whenever the Christ comes, he will not perform more signs than this man has done, [will he]?"

Then, [when they] heard these words, [some] from the crowd began to say, "This man is truly the Prophet!"

Others were saying, "This man is the Christ!" But others were saying, "No, for the Christ does not come from Galilee, [does he]?

The officers replied, "Never has a man spoken like this!"

"Our law does not condemn a man unless it first hears from him and knows what he is doing, [does it]?"

Then Jesus said, "When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will recognize that I am [he], and I do nothing from myself, but just as the Father taught me, I say these [things].

But now you are seeking to kill me, a man who spoke to you the truth which I heard from God. This Abraham did not do.

And [as he] went away, he saw a man blind from birth.

And his disciples asked him, saying, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he should be born blind?"

Jesus replied, "Neither this man sinned nor his parents, but [it happened] so that the works of God could be revealed in him.

Then the neighbors and those who saw him previously (because he was a beggar) began to say, "Is this man not the one who used to sit and beg?"

Others were saying, "It is this man"; others were saying, "No, but he is like him." That one was saying, "I am [he]!"

He replied, "The man who is called Jesus made clay and smeared [it] on my eyes and said to me, 'Go to Siloam and wash!' So I went, and I washed, [and] I received sight."

And they said to him, "Where is that man?" He said, "I do not know."

So some of the Pharisees were saying, "This man is not from God, because he does not observe the Sabbath!" Others were saying, "How can a man [who is] a sinner perform such signs?" And there was a division among them.

So they said to the blind man again, "What do you say about him, because he opened your eyes?" And he said, "He is a prophet."

And they asked them, saying, "Is this man your son, whom you say was born blind? Then how does he now see?"

So his parents answered and said, "We know that this man is our son, and that he was born blind.

So they summoned the man who had been blind for the second time and said to him, "Give glory to God! We know that this man is a sinner!"

Then that man replied, "Whether he is a sinner I do not know. One [thing] I know--that [although I] was blind, now I see!"

We know that God has spoken to Moses, but we do not know where this man is from."

The man answered and said to them, "For the remarkable thing is this, that you do not know where he is from, and he opened my eyes!

If this man were not from God, he would not be able to do anything!"

Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and finding him, he said, "Do you believe in the Son of Man?"

The Jews answered him, "We are not going to stone you concerning a good deed, but concerning blasphemy, and because you, [although you] are a man, make yourself [to be] God!"

And many came to him and began to say, "John performed no sign, but everything John said about this man was true!"

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

But some of them said, "Was not this man who opened the eyes of the blind able to do [something] so that this man also would not have died?"

So the chief priests and the Pharisees called together the Sanhedrin and said, "What are we doing? For this man is performing many signs!

Nor do you consider that it is profitable for you that one man should die for the people, and the whole nation not perish."

And Jesus answered them, saying, "The hour has come that the Son of Man will be glorified.

Then the crowd replied to him, "We have heard from the law that the Christ remains {forever}! And how do you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?"

Then, when he had gone out, Jesus said, "Now the Son of Man is glorified, and God is glorified in him.

(Now it was Caiaphas who had advised the Jews that it was better [that] one man die for the people.)

Then the female slave [who was] the doorkeeper said to Peter, "You are not also [one] of the disciples of this man, [are you]?" He said, "I am not!"

So Pilate came outside to them and said, "What accusation do you bring against this man?"

They answered and said to him, "If this man were not doing evil, we would not have handed him over to you!"

Then they shouted again, saying, "Not this man, but Barabbas!" (Now Barabbas was a revolutionary.)

Then Jesus came outside wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, and he said to them, "Behold the man!"

From this [point on] Pilate was seeking to release him, but the Jews shouted, saying, "If you release this man, you are not a friend of Caesar! Everyone who makes himself out to be a king opposes Caesar!"