What Does “Multitude” Mean in the Bible?
A great crowd of people.
A detail
- In the Bible: Zacchaeus could not see Jesus because of the crowd. When Jesus saw the multitudes, he went up the mountain and taught.
Where it appears in the Bible
Luke 19:3; Matthew 5:1; John 6:5
What the Bible says
Luke 19:3
And he sought to see Jesus who he was, and he could not for the crowd, because he was low of stature.
Matthew 5:1
And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain, and when he was set down, his disciples came unto him.
John 6:5
When Jesus therefore had lifted up his eyes, and seen that a very great multitude cometh to him, he said to Philip: Whence shall we buy bread, that these may eat?
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
Source: RAE, “gentío”; Douay-Rheims, Matthew 5:1