'One' in the Bible

The angel came to her and said, "Greetings, favored one, the Lord is with you!"

When the angels left them and went back to heaven, the shepherds said to one another, "Let us go over to Bethlehem and see this thing that has taken place, that the Lord has made known to us."

As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, "The voice of one shouting in the wilderness: 'Prepare the way for the Lord, make his paths straight.

Then some soldiers also asked him, "And as for us -- what should we do?" He told them, "Take money from no one by violence or by false accusation, and be content with your pay."

John answered them all, "I baptize you with water, but one more powerful than I am is coming -- I am not worthy to untie the strap of his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven, "You are my one dear Son; in you I take great delight."

"Ha! Leave us alone, Jesus the Nazarene! Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are -- the Holy One of God."

They were all amazed and began to say to one another, "What's happening here? For with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out!"

As the sun was setting, all those who had any relatives sick with various diseases brought them to Jesus. He placed his hands on every one of them and healed them.

He got into one of the boats, which was Simon's, and asked him to put out a little way from the shore. Then Jesus sat down and taught the crowds from the boat.

While Jesus was in one of the towns, a man came to him who was covered with leprosy. When he saw Jesus, he bowed down with his face to the ground and begged him, "Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean."

Then he ordered the man to tell no one, but commanded him, "Go and show yourself to a priest, and bring the offering for your cleansing, as Moses commanded, as a testimony to them."

Now on one of those days, while he was teaching, there were Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting nearby (who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem), and the power of the Lord was with him to heal.

He also told them a parable: "No one tears a patch from a new garment and sews it on an old garment. If he does, he will have torn the new, and the piece from the new will not match the old.

And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the new wine will burst the skins and will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed.

No one after drinking old wine wants the new, for he says, 'The old is good enough.'"

But they were filled with mindless rage and began debating with one another what they would do to Jesus.

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

and sent them to Jesus to ask, "Are you the one who is to come, or should we look for another?"

When the men came to Jesus, they said, "John the Baptist has sent us to you to ask, 'Are you the one who is to come, or should we look for another?'"

This is the one about whom it is written, 'Look, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way before you.'

I tell you, among those born of women no one is greater than John. Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he is."

They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling out to one another, 'We played the flute for you, yet you did not dance; we wailed in mourning, yet you did not weep.'

Now one of the Pharisees asked Jesus to have dinner with him, so he went into the Pharisee's house and took his place at the table.

"A certain creditor had two debtors; one owed him five hundred silver coins, and the other fifty.

Simon answered, "I suppose the one who had the bigger debt canceled." Jesus said to him, "You have judged rightly."

Therefore I tell you, her sins, which were many, are forgiven, thus she loved much; but the one who is forgiven little loves little."

While a large crowd was gathering and people were coming to Jesus from one town after another, he spoke to them in a parable:

But other seed fell on good soil and grew, and it produced a hundred times as much grain." As he said this, he called out, "The one who has ears to hear had better listen!"

"No one lights a lamp and then covers it with a jar or puts it under a bed, but puts it on a lampstand so that those who come in can see the light.

One day Jesus got into a boat with his disciples and said to them, "Let's go across to the other side of the lake." So they set out,

Then he said to them, "Where is your faith?" But they were afraid and amazed, saying to one another, "Who then is this? He commands even the winds and the water, and they obey him!"

Her parents were astonished, but he ordered them to tell no one what had happened.

while others were saying that Elijah had appeared, and still others that one of the prophets of long ago had risen.

They answered, "John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others that one of the prophets of long ago has risen."

Then as the men were starting to leave, Peter said to Jesus, "Master, it is good for us to be here. Let us make three shelters, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah" -- not knowing what he was saying.

Then a voice came from the cloud, saying, "This is my Son, my Chosen One. Listen to him!"

After the voice had spoken, Jesus was found alone. So they kept silent and told no one at that time anything of what they had seen.

and said to them, "Whoever welcomes this child in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me, for the one who is least among you all is the one who is great."

Jesus said to him, "No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God."

Do not carry a money bag, a traveler's bag, or sandals, and greet no one on the road.

"The one who listens to you listens to me, and the one who rejects you rejects me, and the one who rejects me rejects the one who sent me."

All things have been given to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, or who the Father is except the Son and anyone to whom the Son decides to reveal him."

The expert in religious law said, "The one who showed mercy to him." So Jesus said to him, "Go and do the same."

but one thing is needed. Mary has chosen the best part; it will not be taken away from her."

Now Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he stopped, one of his disciples said to him, "Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples."

Then he said to them, "Suppose one of you has a friend, and you go to him at midnight and say to him, 'Friend, lend me three loaves of bread,

For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

"No one after lighting a lamp puts it in a hidden place or under a basket, but on a lampstand, so that those who come in can see the light.

You fools! Didn't the one who made the outside make the inside as well?

One of the experts in religious law answered him, "Teacher, when you say these things you insult us too."

But Jesus replied, "Woe to you experts in religious law as well! You load people down with burdens difficult to bear, yet you yourselves refuse to touch the burdens with even one of your fingers!

Meanwhile, when many thousands of the crowd had gathered so that they were trampling on one another, Jesus began to speak first to his disciples, "Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

But I will warn you whom you should fear: Fear the one who, after the killing, has authority to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him!

Aren't five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten before God.

But the one who denies me before men will be denied before God's angels.

So it is with the one who stores up riches for himself, but is not rich toward God."

Consider how the flowers grow; they do not work or spin. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his glory was clothed like one of these!

But the one who did not know his master's will and did things worthy of punishment will receive a light beating. From everyone who has been given much, much will be required, and from the one who has been entrusted with much, even more will be asked.

For from now on there will be five in one household divided, three against two and two against three.

Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath,

Look, your house is forsaken! And I tell you, you will not see me until you say, 'Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord!'"

Now one Sabbath when Jesus went to dine at the house of a leader of the Pharisees, they were watching him closely.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted."

When one of those at the meal with Jesus heard this, he said to him, "Blessed is everyone who will feast in the kingdom of God!"

But one after another they all began to make excuses. The first said to him, 'I have bought a field, and I must go out and see it. Please excuse me.'

For I tell you, not one of those individuals who were invited will taste my banquet!'"

Or what king, going out to confront another king in battle, will not sit down first and determine whether he is able with ten thousand to oppose the one coming against him with twenty thousand?

In the same way therefore not one of you can be my disciple if he does not renounce all his own possessions.

It is of no value for the soil or for the manure pile; it is to be thrown out. The one who has ears to hear had better listen!"

"Which one of you, if he has a hundred sheep and loses one of them, would not leave the ninety-nine in the open pasture and go look for the one that is lost until he finds it?

I tell you, in the same way there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous people who have no need to repent.

"Or what woman, if she has ten silver coins and loses one of them, does not light a lamp, sweep the house, and search thoroughly until she finds it?

In the same way, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of God's angels over one sinner who repents."

So he went and worked for one of the citizens of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs.

He was longing to eat the carob pods the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything.

I am no longer worthy to be called your son; treat me like one of your hired workers."'

So he called one of the slaves and asked what was happening.

So he contacted his master's debtors one by one. He asked the first, 'How much do you owe my master?'

"The one who is faithful in a very little is also faithful in much, and the one who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much.

No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money."

But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one tiny stroke of a letter in the law to become void.

"Everyone who divorces his wife and marries someone else commits adultery, and the one who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.

Besides all this, a great chasm has been fixed between us, so that those who want to cross over from here to you cannot do so, and no one can cross from there to us.'

Jesus said to his disciples, "Stumbling blocks are sure to come, but woe to the one through whom they come!

It would be better for him to have a millstone tied around his neck and be thrown into the sea than for him to cause one of these little ones to sin.

"Would any one of you say to your slave who comes in from the field after plowing or shepherding sheep, 'Come at once and sit down for a meal'?

Then one of them, when he saw he was healed, turned back, praising God with a loud voice.

Was no one found to turn back and give praise to God except this foreigner?"

Now at one point the Pharisees asked Jesus when the kingdom of God was coming, so he answered, "The kingdom of God is not coming with signs to be observed,

Then he said to the disciples, "The days are coming when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it.

For just like the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one side to the other, so will the Son of Man be in his day.

I tell you, in that night there will be two people in one bed; one will be taken and the other left.

There will be two women grinding grain together; one will be taken and the other left."

"Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.

Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone.

When Jesus heard this, he said to him, "One thing you still lack. Sell all that you have and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me."

Then Jesus said to them, "I tell you the truth, there is no one who has left home or wife or brothers or parents or children for the sake of God's kingdom

So the first one came before him and said, 'Sir, your mina has made ten minas more.'

Then the second one came and said, 'Sir, your mina has made five minas.'