Who they were
The word first appears for the people of the kingdom of Judah: Rezin “drove the Jews from Elath” (2 Kings 16:6). After the exile it named the whole people, as in Esther, where “many from among the peoples of the land became Jews” (Esther 8:17).
Jesus was born a Jew (John 4:9) and said, “salvation is from the Jews” (John 4:22). In John's Gospel “the Jews” often means the Judean authorities who opposed him, as when Joseph of Arimathaea was a disciple “secretly for fear of the Jews” (John 19:38).
The Good News is “the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first, and also for the Greek” (Romans 1:16), and in Christ “there is neither Jew nor Greek … for you are all one in Christ Jesus” (Galatians 3:28).
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2 Kings2 mentions
2 Kings 16:6At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria, and drove the Jews from Elath; and the Syrians came to Elath, and live there to this day.2 Kings 25:25But in the seventh month, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the royal offspring came, and ten men with him, and struck Gedaliah so that he died, with the Jews and the…
Ezra7 mentions
Ezra 4:12Be it known to the king that the Jews who came up from you have come to us to Jerusalem. They are building the rebellious and bad city, and have finished the walls and repaired the…Ezra 4:23Then when the copy of King Artaxerxes’ letter was read before Rehum, Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went in haste to Jerusalem to the Jews, and made them to cease by force…Ezra 5:1Now the prophets, Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied to the Jews who were in Judah and Jerusalem. They prophesied to them in the name of the God of Israel.Ezra 5:5But the eye of their God was on the elders of the Jews, and they didn’t make them cease until the matter should come to Darius, and an answer should be returned by letter concerning it.Ezra 6:7Leave the work of this house of God alone; let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews build this house of God in its place.Ezra 6:8Moreover I make a decree regarding what you shall do for these elders of the Jews for the building of this house of God: that of the king’s goods, even of the tribute beyond the River…Ezra 6:14The elders of the Jews built and prospered, through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. They built and finished it, according to the commandment of the God…
Nehemiah10 mentions
Nehemiah 1:2Hanani, one of my brothers, came, he and certain men out of Judah; and I asked them about the Jews who had escaped, who were left of the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem.Nehemiah 2:16The rulers didn’t know where I went, or what I did. I had not as yet told it to the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to the nobles, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest who did the work.Nehemiah 4:1But when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry, and was very indignant, and mocked the Jews.Nehemiah 4:2He spoke before his brothers and the army of Samaria, and said, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they fortify themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish in a day? Will they…Nehemiah 4:12When the Jews who lived by them came, they said to us ten times from all places, “Wherever you turn, they will attack us.”Nehemiah 5:1Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews.Nehemiah 5:8I said to them, “We, after our ability, have redeemed our brothers the Jews that were sold to the nations; and would you even sell your brothers, and should they be sold to us?” Then they…Nehemiah 5:17Moreover there were at my table, of the Jews and the rulers, one hundred fifty men, in addition to those who came to us from among the nations that were around us.Nehemiah 6:6in which was written, “It is reported among the nations, and Gashmu says it, that you and the Jews intend to rebel. Because of that, you are building the wall. You would be their king…Nehemiah 13:23In those days I also saw the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab;
Esther46 mentions
Esther 2:5There was a certain Jew in the citadel of Susa whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite,Esther 3:4Now it came to pass, when they spoke daily to him, and he didn’t listen to them, that they told Haman, to see whether Mordecai’s reason would stand; for he had told them that he was a Jew.Esther 3:6But he scorned the thought of laying hands on Mordecai alone, for they had made known to him Mordecai’s people. Therefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews who were throughout the whole…Esther 3:10The king took his ring from his hand, and gave it to Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews’ enemy.Esther 3:13Letters were sent by couriers into all the king’s provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even on the…Esther 4:3In every province, wherever the king’s commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.Esther 4:7Mordecai told him of all that had happened to him, and the exact sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the king’s treasuries for the destruction of the Jews.Esther 4:13Then Mordecai asked them to return this answer to Esther: “Don’t think to yourself that you will escape in the king’s house any more than all the Jews.Esther 4:14For if you remain silent now, then relief and deliverance will come to the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. Who knows if you haven’t come to the…Esther 4:16“Go, gather together all the Jews who are present in Susa, and fast for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day. I and my maidens will also fast the same way. Then I will go…Esther 5:13Yet all this avails me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.”Esther 6:10Then the king said to Haman, “Hurry and take the clothing and the horse, as you have said, and do this for Mordecai the Jew, who sits at the king’s gate. Let nothing fail of all that you…Esther 6:13Haman recounted to Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had happened to him. Then his wise men and Zeresh his wife said to him, “If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to…Esther 8:1On that day, King Ahasuerus gave the house of Haman, the Jews’ enemy, to Esther the queen. Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was to her.Esther 8:3Esther spoke yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet and begged him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his plan that he had planned against the Jews.Esther 8:5She said, “If it pleases the king, and if I have found favor in his sight, and the thing seems right to the king, and I am pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters…Esther 8:7Then King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew, “See, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and they have hanged him on the gallows because he laid his hand on the…Esther 8:8Write also to the Jews as it pleases you, in the king’s name, and seal it with the king’s ring; for the writing which is written in the king’s name, and sealed with the king’s ring, may…Esther 8:9Then the king’s scribes were called at that time, in the third month, which is the month Sivan, on the twenty-third day of the month; and it was written according to all that Mordecai…Esther 8:11In those letters, the king granted the Jews who were in every city to gather themselves together and to defend their lives—to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish all the power of the…Esther 8:13A copy of the letter, that the decree should be given out in every province, was published to all the peoples, that the Jews should be ready for that day to avenge themselves on their…Esther 8:16The Jews had light, gladness, joy, and honor.Esther 8:17In every province and in every city, wherever the king’s commandment and his decree came, the Jews had gladness, joy, a feast and a holiday. Many from among the peoples of the land became…Esther 9:1Now in the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the month, when the king’s commandment and his decree came near to be put in execution, on the day that the…Esther 9:2the Jews gathered themselves together in their cities throughout all the provinces of the King Ahasuerus, to lay hands on those who wanted to harm them. No one could withstand them…Esther 9:3All the princes of the provinces, the local governors, the governors, and those who did the king’s business helped the Jews, because the fear of Mordecai had fallen on them.Esther 9:5The Jews struck all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and with slaughter and destruction, and did what they wanted to those who hated them.Esther 9:6In the citadel of Susa, the Jews killed and destroyed five hundred men.Esther 9:10the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Jews’ enemy, but they didn’t lay their hand on the plunder.Esther 9:12The king said to Esther the queen, “The Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men in the citadel of Susa, including the ten sons of Haman; what then have they done in the rest of the…Esther 9:13Then Esther said, “If it pleases the king, let it be granted to the Jews who are in Susa to do tomorrow also according to today’s decree, and let Haman’s ten sons be hanged on the gallows.”Esther 9:15The Jews who were in Susa gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and killed three hundred men in Susa; but they didn’t lay their hand on the plunder.Esther 9:16The other Jews who were in the king’s provinces gathered themselves together, defended their lives, had rest from their enemies, and killed seventy-five thousand of those who hated them…Esther 9:18But the Jews who were in Susa assembled together on the thirteenth and on the fourteenth days of the month; and on the fifteenth day of that month, they rested, and made it a day of…Esther 9:19Therefore the Jews of the villages, who live in the unwalled towns, make the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, a holiday, and a day of sending presents of…Esther 9:20Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters to all the Jews who were in all the provinces of the King Ahasuerus, both near and far,Esther 9:22as the days in which the Jews had rest from their enemies, and the month which was turned to them from sorrow to gladness, and from mourning into a holiday; that they should make them days…Esther 9:23The Jews accepted the custom that they had begun, as Mordecai had written to them,Esther 9:24because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast “Pur”, that is the lot, to consume them and to…Esther 9:25but when this became known to the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked plan, which he had planned against the Jews, should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should…Esther 9:27the Jews established and imposed on themselves, on their descendants, and on all those who joined themselves to them, so that it should not fail that they would keep these two days…Esther 9:28and that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city; and that these days of Purim should not fail from among the…Esther 9:29Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew wrote with all authority to confirm this second letter of Purim.Esther 9:30He sent letters to all the Jews in the hundred twenty-seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus with words of peace and truth,Esther 9:31to confirm these days of Purim in their appointed times, as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had decreed, and as they had imposed upon themselves and their descendants in the matter…Esther 10:3For Mordecai the Jew was next to King Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews and accepted by the multitude of his brothers, seeking the good of his people and speaking peace to all his…
Jeremiah11 mentions
Jeremiah 32:12and I delivered the deed of the purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the presence of Hanamel my uncle’s son, and in the presence of the witnesses who signed the…Jeremiah 34:9that every man should let his male servant, and every man his female servant, who is a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, go free, that no one should make bondservants of them, of a Jew his brother.Jeremiah 38:19Zedekiah the king said to Jeremiah, “I am afraid of the Jews who have defected to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and they mock me.”Jeremiah 40:11Likewise when all the Jews who were in Moab, and among the children of Ammon, and in Edom, and who were in all the countries, heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant of Judah…Jeremiah 40:12then all the Jews returned out of all places where they were driven, and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah, to Mizpah, and gathered very much wine and summer fruits.Jeremiah 40:15Then Johanan the son of Kareah spoke to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly, saying, “Please let me go, and I will kill Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no man will know it. Why should he take…Jeremiah 41:3Ishmael also killed all the Jews who were with Gedaliah at Mizpah, and the Chaldean men of war who were found there.Jeremiah 43:9“Take great stones in your hand and hide them in mortar in the brick work which is at the entry of Pharaoh’s house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah.Jeremiah 44:1The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews who lived in the land of Egypt, who lived at Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, and at Memphis, and in the country of Pathros, saying,Jeremiah 52:28This is the number of the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year, three thousand twenty-three Jews;Jeremiah 52:30in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty-five people. All the people numbered four thousand six…
Daniel2 mentions
Matthew5 mentions
Matthew 2:2“Where is he who is born King of the Jews? For we saw his star in the east, and have come to worship him.”Matthew 27:11Now Jesus stood before the governor; and the governor asked him, saying, “Are you the King of the Jews?” Jesus said to him, “So you say.”Matthew 27:29They braided a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and a reed in his right hand; and they kneeled down before him and mocked him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!”Matthew 27:37They set up over his head the accusation against him written, “THIS IS JESUS, THE KING OF THE JEWS.”Matthew 28:15So they took the money and did as they were told. This saying was spread abroad among the Jews, and continues until today.
Mark6 mentions
Mark 7:3(For the Pharisees and all the Jews don’t eat unless they wash their hands and forearms, holding to the tradition of the elders.Mark 15:2Pilate asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” He answered, “So you say.”Mark 15:9Pilate answered them, saying, “Do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?”Mark 15:12Pilate again asked them, “What then should I do to him whom you call the King of the Jews?”Mark 15:18They began to salute him, “Hail, King of the Jews!”Mark 15:26The superscription of his accusation was written over him: “THE KING OF THE JEWS.”
Luke6 mentions
Luke 7:3When he heard about Jesus, he sent to him elders of the Jews, asking him to come and save his servant.Luke 23:3Pilate asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” He answered him, “So you say.”Luke 23:37and saying, “If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself!”Luke 23:38An inscription was also written over him in letters of Greek, Latin, and Hebrew: “THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.”Luke 23:50Behold, there was a man named Joseph, who was a member of the council, a good and righteous manLuke 23:51(he had not consented to their counsel and deed), from Arimathaea, a city of the Jews, who was also waiting for God’s Kingdom.
John67 mentions
John 1:19This is John’s testimony, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?”John 2:6Now there were six water pots of stone set there after the Jews’ way of purifying, containing two or three metretes apiece.John 2:13The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.John 2:18The Jews therefore answered him, “What sign do you show us, seeing that you do these things?”John 2:20The Jews therefore said, “It took forty-six years to build this temple! Will you raise it up in three days?”John 3:1Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.John 3:22After these things, Jesus came with his disciples into the land of Judea. He stayed there with them and baptized.John 3:25Therefore a dispute arose on the part of John’s disciples with some Jews about purification.John 4:9The Samaritan woman therefore said to him, “How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)John 4:22You worship that which you don’t know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews.John 5:1After these things, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.John 5:10So the Jews said to him who was cured, “It is the Sabbath. It is not lawful for you to carry the mat.”John 5:15The man went away, and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.John 5:16For this cause the Jews persecuted Jesus and sought to kill him, because he did these things on the Sabbath.John 5:18For this cause therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God.John 6:4Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand.John 6:41The Jews therefore murmured concerning him, because he said, “I am the bread which came down out of heaven.”John 6:52The Jews therefore contended with one another, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”John 7:1After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn’t walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.John 7:2Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was at hand.John 7:11The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, “Where is he?”John 7:13Yet no one spoke openly of him for fear of the Jews.John 7:15The Jews therefore marveled, saying, “How does this man know letters, having never been educated?”John 7:35The Jews therefore said among themselves, “Where will this man go that we won’t find him? Will he go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks?John 8:22The Jews therefore said, “Will he kill himself, because he says, ‘Where I am going, you can’t come’?”John 8:31Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, “If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples.John 8:48Then the Jews answered him, “Don’t we say well that you are a Samaritan, and have a demon?”John 8:52Then the Jews said to him, “Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham died, as did the prophets; and you say, ‘If a man keeps my word, he will never taste of death.’John 8:57The Jews therefore said to him, “You are not yet fifty years old! Have you seen Abraham?”John 9:18The Jews therefore didn’t believe concerning him, that he had been blind and had received his sight, until they called the parents of him who had received his sight,John 9:22His parents said these things because they feared the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if any man would confess him as Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue.John 10:19Therefore a division arose again among the Jews because of these words.John 10:24The Jews therefore came around him and said to him, “How long will you hold us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.”John 10:31Therefore the Jews took up stones again to stone him.John 10:33The Jews answered him, “We don’t stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy, because you, being a man, make yourself God.”John 11:8The disciples asked him, “Rabbi, the Jews were just trying to stone you. Are you going there again?”John 11:19Many of the Jews had joined the women around Martha and Mary, to console them concerning their brother.John 11:31Then the Jews who were with her in the house and were consoling her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up quickly and went out, followed her, saying, “She is going to the tomb to weep…John 11:33When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews weeping who came with her, he groaned in the spirit and was troubled,John 11:36The Jews therefore said, “See how much affection he had for him!”John 11:45Therefore many of the Jews who came to Mary and saw what Jesus did believed in him.John 11:54Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews, but departed from there into the country near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim. He stayed there with his disciples.John 11:55Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand. Many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves.John 12:9A large crowd therefore of the Jews learned that he was there; and they came, not for Jesus’ sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.John 12:11because on account of him many of the Jews went away and believed in Jesus.John 13:33Little children, I will be with you a little while longer. You will seek me, and as I said to the Jews, ‘Where I am going, you can’t come,’ so now I tell you.John 18:12So the detachment, the commanding officer, and the officers of the Jews seized Jesus and bound him,John 18:14Now it was Caiaphas who advised the Jews that it was expedient that one man should perish for the people.John 18:20Jesus answered him, “I spoke openly to the world. I always taught in synagogues and in the temple, where the Jews always meet. I said nothing in secret.John 18:31Pilate therefore said to them, “Take him yourselves, and judge him according to your law.” Therefore the Jews said to him, “It is illegal for us to put anyone to death,”John 18:33Pilate therefore entered again into the Praetorium, called Jesus, and said to him, “Are you the King of the Jews?”John 18:35Pilate answered, “I’m not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and the chief priests delivered you to me. What have you done?”John 18:36Jesus answered, “My Kingdom is not of this world. If my Kingdom were of this world, then my servants would fight, that I wouldn’t be delivered to the Jews. But now my Kingdom is not from…John 18:38Pilate said to him, “What is truth?” When he had said this, he went out again to the Jews, and said to them, “I find no basis for a charge against him.John 18:39But you have a custom that I should release someone to you at the Passover. Therefore, do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?”John 19:3They kept saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and they kept slapping him.John 19:7The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.”John 19:12At this, Pilate was seeking to release him, but the Jews cried out, saying, “If you release this man, you aren’t Caesar’s friend! Everyone who makes himself a king speaks against Caesar!”John 19:14Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passover, at about the sixth hour. He said to the Jews, “Behold, your King!”John 19:19Pilate wrote a title also, and put it on the cross. There was written, “JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS.”
Acts81 mentions
Acts 2:5Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from every nation under the sky.Acts 2:10Phrygia, Pamphylia, Egypt, the parts of Libya around Cyrene, visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes,Acts 2:11Cretans and Arabians—we hear them speaking in our languages the mighty works of God!”Acts 2:14But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice and spoke out to them, “You men of Judea and all you who dwell at Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen to my words.
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- Corrected by Gospel Companion · every 'Jew', 'Jews' and 'Jewish' was linked to Judah the patriarch; they now link to the Jewish people; these verses name the Jews as well as Judah