'People' in the Bible

At that time, Peter got up among the brothers (there were about 120 people present) and said,

Then they prayed, "Lord, you know the hearts of all people. Show us which one of these two men you have chosen

Stunned and amazed, they asked, "All of these people who are speaking are Galileans, aren't they?

"Therefore, let all the people of Israel understand beyond a doubt that God made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Messiah!"

So those who welcomed his message were baptized. That day about 3,000 people were added to their number.

They were praising God and enjoying the good will of all the people. Every day the Lord was adding to their number those who were being saved.

Now a man who had been crippled from birth was being carried in. Every day people would lay him at what was called the Beautiful Gate so that he could beg from those who were going into the Temple.

When all the people saw him walking and praising God,

While he was holding on to Peter and John, all the people came running to them in what was called "Solomon's Colonnade". They were dumbfounded.

When Peter saw this, he told the people: "Fellow Israelis, why are you wondering about this, and why are you staring at us as if by our own power or godliness we made him walk?

"The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to everything he tells you. Any person who will not listen to that prophet will be utterly destroyed from among the people.'

While they were speaking to the people, the priests, the commander of the Temple guards, and the Sadducees came to them.

They were greatly disturbed that Peter and John were teaching the people and announcing that Jesus had been resurrected from the dead.

Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, told them, "Rulers and elders of the people!

you and all the people of Israel must understand that this man stands healthy before you because of the name of Jesus from Nazareth, whom you crucified, but whom God raised from the dead.

There is no salvation by anyone else, for there is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved."

But to keep it from spreading any further among the people, let us warn them never again to speak to anyone in this name."

So they threatened Peter and John even more and then let them go. They couldn't find any way to punish them, because all the people were praising God for what had happened,

You said by the Holy Spirit through the voice of our ancestor, your servant David, "Why do the unbelievers rage, and the people devise useless plots?

For in this city both Herod and Pontius Pilate actually met together with unbelievers and the people of Israel to oppose your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed,

Now many signs and wonders were being performed by the apostles among the people, who were gathered together in Solomon's Colonnade.

None of the others dared join them, although the rest of the people continued to hold them in high regard.

As a result, people kept carrying their sick into the streets and placing them on stretchers and mats so that at least Peter's shadow might fall on some of them as he went by.

"Go, stand in the Temple, and keep on telling the people the whole message about this life they can have."

Then someone came and told them, "Look! The men you put in prison are standing in the Temple and teaching the people!"

So the commander of the Temple guards went with his men to bring them back without force, because they were afraid of being stoned to death by the people.

But a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the Law who was respected by all the people, stood up in the Council and ordered the men to be taken outside for a little while.

After that man, at the time of the census, Judas the Galilean appeared and got people to follow him. He, too, died, and all his followers were scattered.

Now Stephen, full of grace and power, was performing great wonders and signs among the people.

They stirred up the people, the elders, and the scribes. Then they rushed at Stephen, grabbed him, and brought him before the Council.

"This is what God promised: His descendants would be strangers in a foreign country, and its people would enslave them and oppress them for 400 years.

By shrewdly scheming against our people, he oppressed our ancestors and forced them to abandon their infants to the elements, so that they wouldn't live.

I have surely seen the oppression of my people in Egypt, I've heard their groans, and I've come down to rescue them. Now come, I'll send you to Egypt.'

"You stubborn people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are always opposing the Holy Spirit, just as your ancestors used to do.

Philip went down to the city of Samaria and began to preach the Messiah to the people.

Unclean spirits screamed with a loud voice as they came out of the many people they had possessed, and many paralyzed and lame people were healed.

Now in that city there was a man named Simon. He was practicing occult arts and thrilling the people of Samaria, claiming to be someone great.

But Ananias answered, "Lord, I have heard many people tell how much evil this man has done to your saints in Jerusalem.

and all the people who lived in Lydda and Sharon saw him and turned to the Lord.

He was a devout man who feared God, as did everyone in his home. He gave many gifts to the poor among the people and always prayed to God.

As Peter talked with him, he went in and found that many people had gathered.

not to all the people, but to us who were chosen by God to be witnesses and who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.

He also ordered us to preach to the people and to testify solemnly that this is the one appointed by God to be the judge of the living and the dead.

While Peter was still making this statement, the Holy Spirit fell on all the people who were listening to his message.

"No one can stop us from using water to baptize these people who have received the Holy Spirit in the same way that we did, can they?"

Now the people who were scattered by the persecution that started because of Stephen went as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except Jews.

The hand of the Lord was with them, and a large number of people believed and turned to the Lord.

because he was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and faith. And so a large number of people was brought to the Lord.

When he found him, he brought him to Antioch, and for a whole year they were guests of the church and taught many people. It was in Antioch that the disciples were first called Christians.

About that time, Herod arrested some people who belonged to the church and mistreated them.

When he arrested Peter, Herod put him in prison and turned him over to four squads of soldiers to guard him, planning to bring him out to the people after Passover season.

Then Peter came to himself and said, "Now I'm sure that the Lord has sent his angel and rescued me from Herod and from everything the Jewish people were expecting!"

When Peter realized what had happened, he went to the house of Mary, the mother of John who was also called Mark, where a large number of people had gathered and were praying.

The other people told her, "You're out of your mind!" But she kept insisting that it was so. Then they said, "It's his angel."

Now Herod had been in a violent quarrel with the people of Tyre and Sidon. So they came to him as a group. After they had won over Blastus, who oversaw security for the king's sleeping quarters, they asked for a peace agreement because their country depended on the king's country for food.

The people kept shouting, "This is the voice of a god, not of a man!"

After the reading of the Law and the Prophets, the synagogue leaders asked them, "Brothers, if you have any message of encouragement for the people, you may speak."

"Men of Israel and you who fear God, listen! The God of this people Israel chose our ancestors and made them a great people during their stay in the land of Egypt, and with a public display of power he led them out of there.

Before Jesus' appearance, John had already preached a baptism of repentance to all the people in Israel.

For the people who live in Jerusalem and their leaders, not knowing who Jesus was, condemned him and so fulfilled the words of the prophets that are read every Sabbath.

and for many days he appeared to those who had come with him to Jerusalem from Galilee. These are now his witnesses to the people.

As Paul and Barnabas were leaving, the people kept urging them to tell them the same things the next Sabbath.

But the people of the city were divided. Some were with the Jews, while others were with the apostles.

As they were proclaiming the good news in that city, they discipled a large number of people. Then they went back to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch,

Simeon has explained how God first showed his concern for the gentiles by taking from among them a people for his name.

so that the rest of the people may search for the Lord, including all the gentiles who are called by my name,' declares the Lord. "He is the one who has been doing these things

After all, Moses has had people to proclaim him in every city for generations, and on every Sabbath his books are read aloud in the synagogues."

When the people read it, they were pleased with how the letter encouraged them.

As soon as he had seen the vision, we immediately looked for a way to go to Macedonia, because we were convinced that God had called us to tell the people there the good news.

But the Jewish leaders became jealous, and they took some contemptible characters who used to hang out in the public square, formed a mob, and started a riot in the city. They attacked Jason's home and searched it for Paul and Silas in order to bring them out to the people.

These people were more receptive than those in Thessalonica. They were very willing to receive the message, and every day they carefully examined the Scriptures to see if those things were so.

and he isn't served by people as if he needed anything. He himself gives everyone life, breath, and everything else.

For I am with you, and no one will lay a hand on you or harm you, because I have many people in this city."

So Paul lived there for a year and a half and continued to teach the word of God among the people there.

They said, "This man is persuading people to worship God in ways that are contrary to the Law."

Then Paul said, "John baptized when they repented, telling the people to believe in the one who was to come after him, that is, in Jesus."

But when some people became stubborn, refused to believe, and slandered the Way in front of the people, Paul left them, taking his disciples away with him, and held daily discussions in the lecture hall of Tyrannus.

Moreover, many people who had practiced occult arts gathered their books and burned them in front of everybody. They estimated their value and found them to have been worth 50,000 silver coins.

The city was filled with confusion, and the people rushed into the theater together, dragging with them Gaius and Aristarchus, Paul's fellow travelers from Macedonia.

Some of the crowd concluded it was because of Alexander, since the Jews had pushed him to the front. So Alexander motioned for silence and tried to make a defense before the people.

He went through those regions and encouraged the people with everything he had to say. Then he went to Greece

On the first day of the week, when we had met to break bread, Paul began to address the people. Since he intended to leave the next day, he went on speaking until midnight.

When we heard this, we and the people who lived there begged Paul not to go up to Jerusalem.

yelling, "Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches everyone everywhere to turn against our people, the Law, and this place. More than that, he has even brought Greeks into the Temple and desecrated this Holy Place."

The whole city was in chaos. The people rushed together, grabbed Paul, dragged him out of the Temple, and at once the doors were sealed shut.

Immediately the tribune took some soldiers and officers and ran down to the crowd. When the people saw the tribune and the soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.

The crowd of people kept following him and shouting, "Kill him!"

Paul replied, "I'm a Jew from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no insignificant city. Please let me speak to the people."

The tribune gave him permission, and Paul, standing on the steps, motioned for the people to be silent. When everyone had quieted down, he spoke to them in the Hebrew language:

I persecuted this Way, even executing people, and kept tying up both men and women and putting them in prison,

because you will be his witness to all people of what you have seen and heard.

and saw the Lord saying to me, "Hurry up and get out of Jerusalem at once, because the people won't accept your testimony about me.'

the tribune ordered Paul to be taken into the barracks and told the soldiers to beat and question him in order to find out why the people were yelling at him like this.

Paul answered, "I didn't realize, brothers, that he is the high priest. After all, it is written, "You must not speak evil about a ruler of your people.'"

Therefore, I always do my best to have a clear conscience before God and people.

After many years, I have come back to my people to bring gifts for the poor and to offer sacrifices.

All the Jews know how I lived from the earliest days of my youth with my own people and in Jerusalem.

I'll continue to rescue you from your people and from the gentiles to whom I'm sending you.

Instead, I first told the people in Damascus and Jerusalem, then all the people in Judea and after that the gentiles to repent, turn to God, and perform deeds that are consistent with such repentance.

that the Messiah would suffer and be the first to rise from the dead and would bring light both to our people and to the gentiles."