multitude

All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them: That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.

Matthew 13:34-35, KJV

And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass, and took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude. And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken meat that was left seven baskets full. And they that had eaten were about five thousand men, beside women and children.

Matthew 14:19-21, KJV

And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.

Luke 2:13-14, KJV

for there is safety in unity, but danger in duality or a multitude — When an individual of a sect committed an act of folly, the high and the low sunk in their dignity. Dost thou not see that one ox in a pasturage will cast a slur upon all the oxen of the village?

Saadi, Gulistan

laying by That nothing-gift of differing multitudes

Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act 3, Scene 6

He's loved of the distracted multitude, Who like not in their judgment, but their eyes. And where 'tis so, th' offender's scourge is weighed, But never the offense.

Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 4, Scene 3

That the blunt monster with uncounted heads, The still-discordant wav'ring multitude, Can play upon it See what a ready tongue suspicion hath!

Shakespeare, Henry IV Part 2, Prologue

By the cool multitude that choose by show, not learning more than the fond eye doth teach

Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act 2, Scene 9