And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then do the scribes affirm, that Elias must come first?

But ye affirm, If a man say to his father or mother, it is Corban (that is, a gift), which otherwise might have been advantageous to thee from me;

We have heard him affirm, I will destroy this temple made with hands, and after three days I will build another not made with hands.

Verily, verity, I tell thee, That what we know we speak, and what we have seen we affirm; and ye receive not our testimony.

Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye affirm, That the place where we ought to worship is at Jerusalem.

Then answered the Jews, and said to him, Do we not rightly affirm, that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil?

Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews, but went thence into the country bordering on the desert, to a city called Ephraim, and there he abode with his disciples.

for we have heard him affirm, that Jesus the Nazarean, even he, will destroy this place, and change the accustomed ordinances which Moses delivered to us.

whom Jason has entertained in his house: and the practice of all these fellows is in direct opposition to all Caesar's ordinances, for they affirm that another is king, one Jesus.

And why not admit, (as we are falsely reported of; and as some affirm we say,) That we should do evil things, that good may come? whose condemnation is just.

NOW I affirm, that as long as the heir is an infant, he differeth nothing from a servant, though he be master of all;

affecting to be doctors of the law, though they underhand neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm.