'People' in the Bible

She will give birth to a son and you will name him Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins."

And you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are in no way least among the rulers of Judah, for out of you will come a ruler who will shepherd my people Israel.'"

Then people from Jerusalem, as well as all Judea and all the region around the Jordan, were going out to him,

the people who sit in darkness have seen a great light, and on those who sit in the region and shadow of death a light has dawned."

He said to them, "Follow me, and I will turn you into fishers of people."

Jesus went throughout all of Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all kinds of disease and sickness among the people.

So a report about him spread throughout Syria. People brought to him all who suffered with various illnesses and afflictions, those who had seizures, paralytics, and those possessed by demons, and he healed them.

"Blessed are you when people insult you and persecute you and say all kinds of evil things about you falsely on account of me.

"You are the salt of the earth. But if salt loses its flavor, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled on by people.

People do not light a lamp and put it under a basket but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all in the house.

In the same way, let your light shine before people, so that they can see your good deeds and give honor to your Father in heaven.

"Be careful not to display your righteousness merely to be seen by people. Otherwise you have no reward with your Father in heaven.

Thus whenever you do charitable giving, do not blow a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in synagogues and on streets so that people will praise them. I tell you the truth, they have their reward.

"Whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, because they love to pray while standing in synagogues and on street corners so that people can see them. Truly I say to you, they have their reward.

"When you fast, do not look sullen like the hypocrites, for they make their faces unattractive so that people will see them fasting. I tell you the truth, they have their reward.

And if this is how God clothes the wild grass, which is here today and tomorrow is tossed into the fire to heat the oven, won't he clothe you even more, you people of little faith?

When it was evening, many demon-possessed people were brought to him. He drove out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick.

But he said to them, "Why are you cowardly, you people of little faith?" Then he got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and it was dead calm.

Just then some people brought to him a paralytic lying on a stretcher. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, "Have courage, son! Your sins are forgiven."

Beware of people, because they will hand you over to councils and flog you in their synagogues.

"Whoever, then, acknowledges me before people, I will acknowledge before my Father in heaven.

But whoever denies me before people, I will deny him also before my Father in heaven.

From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven has suffered violence, and forceful people lay hold of it.

For this reason I tell you, people will be forgiven for every sin and blasphemy, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven.

I tell you that on the day of judgment, people will give an account for every worthless word they speak.

The people of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented when Jonah preached to them -- and now, something greater than Jonah is here!

For the heart of this people has become dull; they are hard of hearing, and they have shut their eyes, so that they would not see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.'

For I tell you the truth, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.

The field is the world and the good seed are the people of the kingdom. The weeds are the people of the evil one,

Then he came to his hometown and began to teach the people in their synagogue. They were astonished and said, "Where did this man get such wisdom and miraculous powers?

When the people there recognized him, they sent word into all the surrounding area, and they brought all their sick to him.

This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me,

When Jesus came to the area of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, "Who do people say that the Son of Man is?"

"Tell the people of Zion, 'Look, your king is coming to you, unassuming and seated on a donkey, and on a colt, the foal of a donkey.'"

Now after Jesus entered the temple courts, the chief priests and elders of the people came up to him as he was teaching and said, "By what authority are you doing these things, and who gave you this authority?"

Where did John's baptism come from? From heaven or from people?" They discussed this among themselves, saying, "If we say, 'From heaven,' he will say, 'Then why did you not believe him?'

But if we say, 'From people,' we fear the crowd, for they all consider John to be a prophet."

For this reason I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit.

They do all their deeds to be seen by people, for they make their phylacteries wide and their tassels long.

and elaborate greetings in the marketplaces, and to have people call them 'Rabbi.'

"But woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You keep locking people out of the kingdom of heaven! For you neither enter nor permit those trying to enter to go in.

In the same way, on the outside you look righteous to people, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

For in those days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah entered the ark.

All the nations will be assembled before him, and he will separate people one from another like a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.

Then the chief priests and the elders of the people met together in the palace of the high priest, who was named Caiaphas.

But they said, "Not during the feast, so that there won't be a riot among the people."

While he was still speaking, Judas, one of the twelve, arrived. With him was a large crowd armed with swords and clubs, sent by the chief priests and elders of the people.

When he went out to the gateway, another slave girl saw him and said to the people there, "This man was with Jesus the Nazarene."

When it was early in the morning, all the chief priests and the elders of the people plotted against Jesus to execute him.

Then what was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled: "They took the thirty silver coins, the price of the one whose price had been set by the people of Israel,

In reply all the people said, "Let his blood be on us and on our children!"

(They came out of the tombs after his resurrection and went into the holy city and appeared to many people.)

So give orders to secure the tomb until the third day. Otherwise his disciples may come and steal his body and say to the people, 'He has been raised from the dead,' and the last deception will be worse than the first."