'Man' in the Bible

"By what proof," asked Zechariah, "shall I know this? For I am an old man, and my wife is far advanced in years."

to a maiden betrothed to a man of the name of Joseph, a descendant of David. The maiden's name was Mary.

Now there was a man in Jerusalem of the name of Symeon, an upright and God-fearing man, who was waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him.

And as Jesus grew older He gained in both wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man.

"Let the man who has two coats," he answered, "give one to the man who has none; and let the man who has food share it with others."

"It is written," replied Jesus, "'It is not on bread alone that a man shall live.'"

But in the synagogue there was a man possessed by the spirit of a foul demon. In a loud voice he cried out,

But Jesus rebuked the demon. "Silence!" He exclaimed; "come out of him." Upon this, the demon hurled the man into the midst of them, and came out of him without doing him any harm.

When Simon Peter saw this, he fell down at the knees of Jesus, and exclaimed, "Master, leave my boat, for I am a sinful man."

On another occasion, when He was in one of the towns, there was a man there covered with leprosy, who, seeing Jesus, threw himself at His feet and implored Him, saying, "Sir, if only you are willing, you are able to make me clean."

And a party of men came carrying a palsied man on a bed, and they endeavoured to bring him in and lay him before Jesus.

But to prove to you that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins" --Turning to the paralytic He said, "I bid you, Rise, take up your bed, and go home."

"The Son of Man," He added, "is Lord of the Sabbath also."

On another Sabbath He had gone to the synagogue and was teaching there; and in the congregation was a man whose right arm was withered.

He knew their thoughts, and said to the man with the withered arm, "Rise, and stand there in the middle." And he rose and stood there.

And looking round upon them all He said to the man, "Stretch out your arm." He did so, and the arm was restored.

He also spoke to them in figurative language. "Can a blind man lead a blind man?" He asked; "would not both fall into the ditch?

A good man from the good stored up in his heart brings out what is good; and an evil man from the evil stored up brings out what is evil; for from the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks.

He is like a man building a house, who digs and goes deep, and lays the foundation on the rock; and when a flood comes, the torrent bursts upon that house, but is unable to shake it, because it is securely built.

But he who has heard and not practised is like a man who has built a house upon the soft soil without a foundation, against which the torrent bursts, and immediately it collapses, and terrible is the wreck and ruin of that house."

Here the servant of a certain Captain, a man dear to his master, was ill and at the point of death;

and therefore I did not deem myself worthy to come to you. Only speak the word, and let my young man be cured.

For I too am a man obedient to authority, and have soldiers under me; and I say to one, 'Go,' and he goes; to another, 'Come,' and he comes; and to my slave, 'Do this or that,' and he does it."

And just as He reached the gate of the town, they happened to be bringing out for burial a dead man who was his mother's only son; and she was a widow; and a great number of the townspeople were with her.

Then He went close and touched the bier, and the bearers halted. "Young man," He said, "I command you, wake!"

The dead man sat up and began to speak; and He restored him to his mother.

But what did you go out to see? A man wearing luxurious clothes? People who are gorgeously dressed and live in luxury are found in palaces.

John is the man about whom it is written, 'See, I am sending My messenger before thy face, and he shall make ready thy way before thee.'

The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, 'Look, there is a man who is overfond of eating and drinking--he is a friend of tax-gatherers and notorious sinners!'

Noticing this, the Pharisee, His host, said to himself, "This man, if he were really a Prophet, would know who and what sort of person this woman is who is touching him--and would know that she is an immoral woman."

Then the other guests began to say to themselves, "Who can this man be who even forgives sins?"

For already He had been commanding the foul spirit to come out of the man. For many a time it had seized and held him, and they had repeatedly put him in chains and fetters and kept guard over him, but he used to break the chains to pieces, and, impelled by the demon, to escape into the Desert.

The demons came out of the man and left him, and entered into the swine; and the herd rushed violently over the cliff into the Lake and were drowned.

whereupon the people came out to see what had happened. They came to Jesus, and they found the man from whom the demons had gone out sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind; and they were terrified.

But the man from whom the demons had gone out earnestly asked permission to go with Him; but He sent him away.

Just then there came a man named Jair, a Warden of the Synagogue, who threw himself at the feet of Jesus, and entreated Him to come to his house;

and He said, "The Son of Man must suffer much cruelty, be rejected by the Elders and High Priests and Scribes, and be put to death, and on the third day be raised to life again."

Why, what benefit is it to a man to have gained the whole world, but to have lost or forfeited his own self.

For whoever shall have been ashamed of me and my teachings, of him the Son of Man will be ashamed when He comes in His own and the Father's glory and in that of the holy angels.

and a man from the crowd called out, "Rabbi, I beg you to pity my son, for he is my only child.

"As for you, store these my sayings in your memory; for, before long, the Son of Man will be betrayed into the hands of men."

"Rabbi," replied John, "we have seen a man making use of your name to expel demons; and we forbad him, because he does not come with us."

And, as they proceeded on their way, a man came to Him and said, "I will follow you wherever you go."

"The foxes have holes," said Jesus, "and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head."

"Follow me," He said to another. "Master," the man replied, "allow me first to go and bury my father."

"'Thou shalt love the Lord thy God,'" he replied, "'with thy whole heart, thy whole soul, thy whole strength, and thy whole mind; and thy fellow man as much as thyself.'"

But he, desiring to justify himself, said, "But what is meant by my 'fellow man'?"

Jesus replied, "A man was once on his way down from Jerusalem to Jericho when he fell among robbers, who after both stripping and beating him went away, leaving him half dead.

"Which of those three seems to you to have acted like a fellow man to him who fell among the robbers?"

On once occasion He was expelling a dumb demon; and when the demon was gone out the dumb man could speak, and the people were astonished.

"Whenever a strong man, fully armed and equipped, is guarding his own castle, he enjoys peaceful possession of his property;

"When a foul spirit has left a man, it roams about in the Desert, seeking a resting-place; but, unable to find any, it says, 'I will return to the house I have left;"

For just as Jonah became a sign to the men of Nineveh, so the Son of Man will be a token to the present generation.

"And I tell you that every man who shall have acknowledged me before men, the Son of Man will also acknowledge before the angels of God.

"Moreover every one who shall speak against the Son of Man, may obtain forgiveness; but he who blasphemes the Holy Spirit will never obtain forgiveness.

Just then a man in the crowd appealed to Him. "Rabbi," he said, "tell my brother to give me a share of the inheritance."

"Man," He replied, "who has constituted me a judge or arbitrator over you?"

"But God said to him, "'Foolish man, this night your life is demanded from you; and these preparations--for whom shall they be?'

Be you also ready, for at an hour when you are not expecting Him the Son of Man will come."

And He gave them the following parable. "A man," He said, "who had a fig-tree growing in his garden came to look for fruit on it and could find none.

It is like a mustard seed which a man drops into the soil in his garden, and it grows and becomes a tree in whose branches the birds roost."

In front of Him was a man suffering from dropsy.

They gave Him no answer; so He took hold of the man, cured him, and sent him away.

and the man who invited you both will come and will say to you, 'Make room for this guest,' and then you, ashamed, will move to the lowest place.

"A man once gave a great dinner," replied Jesus, "to which he invited a large number of guests.

saying, 'This man began to build, but could not finish.'

He went on to say, "There was a man who had two sons.

He said also to His disciples: "There was a rich man who had a steward, about whom a report was brought to him, that he was wasting his property.

The man who is honest in a very small matter is honest in a great one also; and he who is dishonest in a very small matter is dishonest in a great one also.

Every man who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery; and he who marries her when so divorced from her husband commits adultery.

"There was once a rich man who habitually arrayed himself in purple and fine linen, and enjoyed a splendid banquet every day,

"But in course of time the beggar died; and he was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died, and had a funeral.

Then, turning to His disciples, He said, "There will come a time when you will wish you could see a single one of the days of the Son of Man, but will not see one.

For just as the lightning, when it flashes, shines from one part of the horizon to the opposite part, so will the Son of Man be on His day.

"And as it was in the time of Noah, so will it also be in the time of the Son of Man.

Exactly so will it be on the day that the veil is lifted from the Son of Man.

"On that day, if a man is on the roof and his property indoors, let him not go down to fetch it; and, in the same way, he who is in the field, let him not turn back.

Any man who makes it his object to keep his own life safe, will lose it; but whoever loses his life will preserve it.

"In a certain town," He said, "there was a judge who had no fear of God and no respect for man.

"For a time he would not, but afterwards he said to himself, "'Though I have neither reverence for God nor respect for man,

Yes, He will soon avenge their wrongs. Yet, when the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on earth?"

"I tell you that this man went home more thoroughly absolved from guilt than the other; for every one who uplifts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be uplifted."

Why, it is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God."

"Things impossible with man," He replied, "are possible with God."

Then He drew the Twelve to Him and said, "See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and everything written in the Prophets which refers to the Son of Man will be fulfilled.

As Jesus came near to Jericho, there was a blind man sitting by the way-side begging.

At length Jesus stopped and desired them to bring the man to Him; and when he had come close to Him He asked him,

No sooner were the words spoken than the man regained his sight and followed Jesus, giving glory to God; and all the people, seeing it, gave praise to God.

There was a man there called Zacchaeus, who was the local surveyor of taxes, and was wealthy.

He was anxious to see what sort of man Jesus was; but he could not because of the crowd, for he was short in stature.

Zacchaeus however stood up, and addressing the Lord said, "Here and now, Master, I give half my property to the poor, and if I have unjustly exacted money from any man, I pledge myself to repay to him four times the amount."

For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost."

So He said to them, "A man of noble family travelled to a distant country to obtain the rank of king, and to return.

For I was afraid of you, because you are a severe man: you take up what you did not lay down, and you reap what you did not sow.'

"'By your own words,' he replied, 'I will judge you, you bad servant. You knew me to be a severe man, taking up what I did not lay down, and reaping what I did not sow:

Then He proceeded to speak a parable to the people. "There was a man," He said, "who planted a vineyard, let it out to vine-dressers, and went abroad for a considerable time.

So they put a question to Him. "Rabbi," they said, "we know that you say and teach what is right and that you make no distinctions between one man and another, but teach God's way truly.

"Rabbi, Moses made it a law for us that if a man's brother should die, leaving a wife but no children, the man shall marry the widow and raise up a family for his brother.

And then will they see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with great power and glory.

But beware of slumbering; and every moment pray that you may be fully strengthened to escape from all these coming evils, and to take your stand in the presence of the Son of Man."