2758 verses about Community

He was reclining at the table in his house, and many tax collectors and sinners sat down with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many, and they followed him.

The scribes and the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with the sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, “Why is it that he eats and drinks with tax collectors and sinners?”

Jesus withdrew to the sea with his disciples, and a great multitude followed him from Galilee, from Judea,

The multitude came together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread.

When his friends heard it, they went out to seize him: for they said, “He is insane.”

If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.

If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand.

A multitude was sitting around him, and they told him, “Behold, your mother, your brothers, and your sisters are outside looking for you.”

Looking around at those who sat around him, he said, “Behold, my mother and my brothers!

For whoever does the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.”

Again he began to teach by the seaside. A great multitude was gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat in the sea, and sat down. All the multitude were on the land by the sea.

When he was alone, those who were around him with the twelve asked him about the parables.

Leaving the multitude, they took him with them, even as he was, in the boat. Other small boats were also with him.

Those who fed them fled, and told it in the city and in the country. The people came to see what it was that had happened.

They began to beg him to depart from their region.

He didn’t allow him, but said to him, “Go to your house, to your friends, and tell them what great things the Lord has done for you, and how he had mercy on you.”

He went with him, and a great multitude followed him, and they pressed upon him on all sides.

He went out from there. He came into his own country, and his disciples followed him.

When the Sabbath had come, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many hearing him were astonished, saying, “Where did this man get these things?” and, “What is the wisdom that is given to this man, that such mighty works come about by his hands?

Isn’t this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, Joses, Judah, and Simon? Aren’t his sisters here with us?” They were offended at him.

Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, and among his own relatives, and in his own house.”

He said to them, “You come apart into a deserted place, and rest awhile.” For there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat.

They went away in the boat to a deserted place by themselves.

They saw them going, and many recognized him and ran there on foot from all the cities. They arrived before them and came together to him.

When it was late in the day, his disciples came to him, and said, “This place is deserted, and it is late in the day.

Send them away, that they may go into the surrounding country and villages, and buy themselves bread, for they have nothing to eat.”

He commanded them that everyone should sit down in groups on the green grass.

They sat down in ranks, by hundreds and by fifties.

They all ate, and were filled.

When they had come out of the boat, immediately the people recognized him,

He commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground, and he took the seven loaves. Having given thanks, he broke them, and gave them to his disciples to serve, and they served the multitude.

Coming to the disciples, he saw a great multitude around them, and scribes questioning them.

Immediately all the multitude, when they saw him, were greatly amazed, and running to him, greeted him.

He came to Capernaum, and when he was in the house he asked them, “What were you arguing among yourselves on the way?”

For whoever is not against us is on our side.

Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, with what will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”

but he will receive one hundred times more now in this time, houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and land, with persecutions; and in the age to come eternal life.

When the ten heard it, they began to be indignant towards James and John.

Many spread their garments on the way, and others were cutting down branches from the trees, and spreading them on the road.

The second is like this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ Leviticus 19:18 There is no other commandment greater than these.”

For this might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, and given to the poor.” They grumbled against her.

When it was evening he came with the twelve.

He took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave to them. They all drank of it.

But he again denied it. After a little while again those who stood by said to Peter, “You truly are one of them, for you are a Galilean, and your speech shows it.”

The multitude, crying aloud, began to ask him to do as he always did for them.

She went and told those who had been with him, as they mourned and wept.

Since many have undertaken to set in order a narrative concerning those matters which have been fulfilled among us,

Her neighbors and her relatives heard that the Lord had magnified his mercy towards her, and they rejoiced with her.

Fear came on all who lived around them, and all these sayings were talked about throughout all the hill country of Judea.

All went to enroll themselves, everyone to his own city.

There were shepherds in the same country staying in the field, and keeping watch by night over their flock.

When the angels went away from them into the sky, the shepherds said to one another, “Let’s go to Bethlehem, now, and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us.”

but supposing him to be in the company, they went a day’s journey, and they looked for him among their relatives and acquaintances.

He answered them, “He who has two coats, let him give to him who has none. He who has food, let him do likewise.”

He came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. He entered, as was his custom, into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read.

He closed the book, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of all in the synagogue were fastened on him.

All testified about him, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth, and they said, “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?”

They rose up, threw him out of the city, and led him to the brow of the hill that their city was built on, that they might throw him off the cliff.

He rose up from the synagogue, and entered into Simon’s house. Simon’s mother-in-law was afflicted with a great fever, and they begged him for her.

Now while the multitude pressed on him and heard the word of God, he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret.

They beckoned to their partners in the other boat, that they should come and help them. They came, and filled both boats, so that they began to sink.

Behold, men brought a paralyzed man on a cot, and they sought to bring him in to lay before Jesus.

Levi made a great feast for him in his house. There was a great crowd of tax collectors and others who were reclining with them.

Their scribes and the Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?”

When it was day, he called his disciples, and from them he chose twelve, whom he also named apostles:

Matthew; Thomas; James, the son of Alphaeus; Simon, who was called the Zealot;

“As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them.

for he loves our nation, and he built our synagogue for us.”

Soon afterwards, he went to a city called Nain. Many of his disciples, along with a great multitude, went with him.

Now when he came near to the gate of the city, behold, one who was dead was carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. Many people of the city were with her.

They are like children who sit in the marketplace, and call to one another, saying, ‘We piped to you, and you didn’t dance. We mourned, and you didn’t weep.’

and Joanna, the wife of Chuzas, Herod’s steward; Susanna; and many others; who served them from their possessions.

When a great multitude came together, and people from every city were coming to him, he spoke by a parable.

His mother and brothers came to him, and they could not come near him for the crowd.

The day began to wear away; and the twelve came, and said to him, “Send the multitude away, that they may go into the surrounding villages and farms, and lodge, and get food, for we are here in a deserted place.”

But he said to them, “You give them something to eat.” They said, “We have no more than five loaves and two fish, unless we should go and buy food for all these people.”

They did so, and made them all sit down.

They didn’t receive him, because he was traveling with his face set towards Jerusalem.

Into whatever house you enter, first say, ‘Peace be to this house.’

If a son of peace is there, your peace will rest on him; but if not, it will return to you.

Remain in that same house, eating and drinking the things they give, for the laborer is worthy of his wages. Don’t go from house to house.

Into whatever city you enter, and they receive you, eat the things that are set before you.

As they went on their way, he entered into a certain village, and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house.

He said to them, “Which of you, if you go to a friend at midnight, and tell him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread,

for a friend of mine has come to me from a journey, and I have nothing to set before him,’

He also said to the one who had invited him, “When you make a dinner or a supper, don’t call your friends, nor your brothers, nor your kinsmen, nor rich neighbors, or perhaps they might also return the favor, and pay you back.

But he said to him, “A certain man made a great supper, and he invited many people.

“The servant said, ‘Lord, it is done as you commanded, and there is still room.’

Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him.

The Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, “This man welcomes sinners, and eats with them.”

When he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!’

When she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the drachma which I had lost.’

Bring the fattened calf, kill it, and let us eat, and celebrate;

“Now his elder son was in the field. As he came near to the house, he heard music and dancing.

As he entered into a certain village, ten men who were lepers met him, who stood at a distance.

When the hour had come, he sat down with the twelve apostles.

He received a cup, and when he had given thanks, he said, “Take this, and share it among yourselves,

But not so with you. But one who is the greater among you, let him become as the younger, and one who is governing, as one who serves.

When they had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard, and had sat down together, Peter sat among them.

A great multitude of the people followed him, including women who also mourned and lamented him.