'Saying' in the Bible

He preached, saying, "After me comes he who is mightier than I, the thong of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and loosen.

and saying, "The time is fulfilled, and the Kingdom of God is at hand! Repent, and believe in the Good News."

saying, "Ha! What do we have to do with you, Jesus, you Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know you who you are: the Holy One of God!"

Jesus rebuked him, saying, "Be quiet, and come out of him!"

They were all amazed, so that they questioned among themselves, saying, "What is this? A new teaching? For with authority he commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey him!"

A leper came to him, begging him, kneeling down to him, and saying to him, "If you want to, you can make me clean."

He arose, and immediately took up the mat, and went out in front of them all; so that they were all amazed, and glorified God, saying, "We never saw anything like this!"

All the demons begged him, saying, "Send us into the pigs, that we may enter into them."

and begged him much, saying, "My little daughter is at the point of death. Please come and lay your hands on her, that she may be made healthy, and live."

While he was still speaking, people came from the synagogue ruler's house saying, "Your daughter is dead. Why bother the Teacher any more?"

When the Sabbath had come, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many hearing him were astonished, saying, "Where did this man get these things?" and, "What is the wisdom that is given to this man, that such mighty works come about by his hands?

He said to her, "For this saying, go your way. The demon has gone out of your daughter."

They were astonished beyond measure, saying, "He has done all things well. He makes even the deaf hear, and the mute speak!"

He warned them, saying, "Take heed: beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod."

They reasoned with one another, saying, "It's because we have no bread."

He sent him away to his house, saying, "Don't enter into the village, nor tell anyone in the village."

They kept this saying to themselves, questioning what the "rising from the dead" meant.

They asked him, saying, "Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?"

When Jesus saw that a multitude came running together, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to him, "You mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him, and never enter him again!"

But they didn't understand the saying, and were afraid to ask him.

But his face fell at that saying, and he went away sorrowful, for he was one who had great possessions.

They were exceedingly astonished, saying to him, "Then who can be saved?"

James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came near to him, saying, "Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we will ask."

Jesus stood still, and said, "Call him." They called the blind man, saying to him, "Cheer up! Get up. He is calling you!"

He taught, saying to them, "Isn't it written, 'My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations?' But you have made it a den of robbers!"

and they began saying to him, "By what authority do you do these things? Or who gave you this authority to do these things?"

They reasoned with themselves, saying, "If we should say, 'From heaven;' he will say, 'Why then did you not believe him?'

Therefore still having one, his beloved son, he sent him last to them, saying, 'They will respect my son.'

There came to him Sadducees, who say that there is no resurrection. They asked him, saying,

But about the dead, that they are raised; haven't you read in the book of Moses, about the Bush, how God spoke to him, saying, 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'?

For many will come in my name, saying, 'I am he!' and will lead many astray.

But there were some who were indignant among themselves, saying, "Why has this ointment been wasted?

Again he went away, and prayed, saying the same words.

Now he who betrayed him had given them a sign, saying, "Whoever I will kiss, that is he. Seize him, and lead him away safely."

Some stood up, and gave false testimony against him, saying,

But he denied it, saying, "I neither know, nor understand what you are saying." He went out on the porch, and the rooster crowed.

Pilate answered them, saying, "Do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?"

Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads, and saying, "Ha! You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days,

At the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" which is, being interpreted, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"

One ran, and filling a sponge full of vinegar, put it on a reed, and gave it to him to drink, saying, "Let him be. Let's see whether Elijah comes to take him down."

They were saying among themselves, "Who will roll away the stone from the door of the tomb for us?"