'Listen to Me' in the Bible

Then he called the crowd again and said to them, "Listen to me, everyone, and understand.

I knew that you always listen to me, but I said this for the sake of the crowd standing around here, that they may believe that you sent me."

So he replied, "Brothers and fathers, listen to me. The God of glory appeared to our forefather Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he settled in Haran,

After they stopped speaking, James replied, "Brothers, listen to me.

because you are especially familiar with all the customs and controversial issues of the Jews. Therefore I ask you to listen to me patiently.

It is written in the law: "By people with strange tongues and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people, yet not even in this way will they listen to me," says the Lord.