'Speaking' in the Bible

While He was still speaking to the crowds, behold, His mother and brothers were standing outside, seeking to speak to Him.

So the crowd marveled as they saw the mute speaking, the crippled restored, and the lame walking, and the blind seeing; and they glorified the God of Israel.

While he was still speaking, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and behold, a voice out of the cloud said, “This is My beloved Son, with whom I am well-pleased; listen to Him!”

When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard His parables, they understood that He was speaking about them.

While He was still speaking, behold, Judas, one of the twelve, came up accompanied by a large crowd with swords and clubs, who came from the chief priests and elders of the people.

And many were gathered together, so that there was no longer room, not even near the door; and He was speaking the word to them.

And He called them to Himself and began speaking to them in parables, “How can Satan cast out Satan?

With many such parables He was speaking the word to them, so far as they were able to hear it;

While He was still speaking, they *came from the house of the synagogue official, saying, “Your daughter has died; why trouble the Teacher anymore?”

And his ears were opened, and the impediment of his tongue was removed, and he began speaking plainly.

Immediately while He was still speaking, Judas, one of the twelve, *came up accompanied by a crowd with swords and clubs, who were from the chief priests and the scribes and the elders.

And all were speaking well of Him, and wondering at the gracious words which were falling from His lips; and they were saying, “Is this not Joseph’s son?”

When He had finished speaking, He said to Simon, “Put out into the deep water and let down your nets for a catch.”

While He was still speaking, someone *came from the house of the synagogue official, saying, “Your daughter has died; do not trouble the Teacher anymore.”

But the crowds were aware of this and followed Him; and welcoming them, He began speaking to them about the kingdom of God and curing those who had need of healing.

who, appearing in glory, were speaking of His departure which He was about to accomplish at Jerusalem.

And He began speaking a parable to the invited guests when He noticed how they had been picking out the places of honor at the table, saying to them,

While He was still speaking, behold, a crowd came, and the one called Judas, one of the twelve, was preceding them; and he approached Jesus to kiss Him.

But Peter said, “Man, I do not know what you are talking about.” Immediately, while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed.

They said to one another, “Were not our hearts burning within us while He was speaking to us on the road, while He was explaining the Scriptures to us?”

But He was speaking of the temple of His body.

At this point His disciples came, and they were amazed that He had been speaking with a woman, yet no one said, “What do You seek?” or, “Why do You speak with her?”

Yet no one was speaking openly of Him for fear of the Jews.

Look, He is speaking publicly, and they are saying nothing to Him. The rulers do not really know that this is the Christ, do they?

They did not realize that He had been speaking to them about the Father.

Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that He was speaking of literal sleep.

The disciples began looking at one another, at a loss to know of which one He was speaking.

So Simon Peter *gestured to him, and *said to him, “Tell us who it is of whom He is speaking.”

His disciples *said, “Lo, now You are speaking plainly and are not using a figure of speech.

To these He also presented Himself alive after His suffering, by many convincing proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days and speaking of the things concerning the kingdom of God.

They were amazed and astonished, saying, “Why, are not all these who are speaking Galileans?

Cretans and Arabs—we hear them in our own tongues speaking of the mighty deeds of God.”

As they were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple guard and the Sadducees came up to them,

for we cannot stop speaking about what we have seen and heard.”

But they were unable to cope with the wisdom and the Spirit with which he was speaking.

This is the one who was in the congregation in the wilderness together with the angel who was speaking to him on Mount Sinai, and who was with our fathers; and he received living oracles to pass on to you.

And he was with them, moving about freely in Jerusalem, speaking out boldly in the name of the Lord.

When the angel who was speaking to him had left, he summoned two of his servants and a devout soldier of those who were his personal attendants,

While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell upon all those who were listening to the message.

For they were hearing them speaking with tongues and exalting God. Then Peter answered,

But Peter began speaking and proceeded to explain to them in orderly sequence, saying,

So then those who were scattered because of the persecution that occurred in connection with Stephen made their way to Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except to Jews alone.

But there were some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who came to Antioch and began speaking to the Greeks also, preaching the Lord Jesus.

Now when the meeting of the synagogue had broken up, many of the Jews and of the God-fearing proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who, speaking to them, were urging them to continue in the grace of God.

Therefore they spent a long time there speaking boldly with reliance upon the Lord, who was testifying to the word of His grace, granting that signs and wonders be done by their hands.

After they had stopped speaking, James answered, saying, “Brethren, listen to me.

And on the Sabbath day we went outside the gate to a riverside, where we were supposing that there would be a place of prayer; and we sat down and began speaking to the women who had assembled.

And the Lord said to Paul in the night by a vision, “Do not be afraid any longer, but go on speaking and do not be silent;

This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he was speaking and teaching accurately the things concerning Jesus, being acquainted only with the baptism of John;

And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they began speaking with tongues and prophesying.

And he entered the synagogue and continued speaking out boldly for three months, reasoning and persuading them about the kingdom of God.

But when some were becoming hardened and disobedient, speaking evil of the Way before the people, he withdrew from them and took away the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus.

and from among your own selves men will arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

And those who were with me saw the light, to be sure, but did not understand the voice of the One who was speaking to me.

But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? The God who inflicts wrath is not unrighteous, is He? (I am speaking in human terms.)

I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness, resulting in further lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness, resulting in sanctification.

Or do you not know, brethren (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law has jurisdiction over a person as long as he lives?

But I am speaking to you who are Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle of Gentiles, I magnify my ministry,

I am not speaking these things according to human judgment, am I? Or does not the Law also say these things?

Or is He speaking altogether for our sake? Yes, for our sake it was written, because the plowman ought to plow in hope, and the thresher to thresh in hope of sharing the crops.

Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God says, “Jesus is accursed”; and no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit.

But now, brethren, if I come to you speaking in tongues, what will I profit you unless I speak to you either by way of revelation or of knowledge or of prophecy or of teaching?

So also you, unless you utter by the tongue speech that is clear, how will it be known what is spoken? For you will be speaking into the air.

I am not speaking this as a command, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity of your love also.

What I am saying, I am not saying as the Lord would, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.

For if I do wish to boast I will not be foolish, for I will be speaking the truth; but I refrain from this, so that no one will credit me with more than he sees in me or hears from me.

All this time you have been thinking that we are defending ourselves to you. Actually, it is in the sight of God that we have been speaking in Christ; and all for your upbuilding, beloved.

This is allegorically speaking, for these women are two covenants: one proceeding from Mount Sinai bearing children who are to be slaves; she is Hagar.

but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ,

speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord;

This mystery is great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church.

hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved; with the result that they always fill up the measure of their sins. But wrath has come upon them to the utmost.

For He did not subject to angels the world to come, concerning which we are speaking.

But, beloved, we are convinced of better things concerning you, and things that accompany salvation, though we are speaking in this way.

See to it that you do not refuse Him who is speaking. For if those did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less will we escape who turn away from Him who warns from heaven.

For,“The one who desires life, to love and see good days,Must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.

but he received a rebuke for his own transgression, for a mute donkey, speaking with a voice of a man, restrained the madness of the prophet.

For speaking out arrogant words of vanity they entice by fleshly desires, by sensuality, those who barely escape from the ones who live in error,

as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.

Then I turned to see the voice that was speaking with me. And having turned I saw seven golden lampstands;

After these things I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven, and the first voice which I had heard, like the sound of a trumpet speaking with me, said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after these things.”

Then the voice which I heard from heaven, I heard again speaking with me, and saying, “Go, take the book which is open in the hand of the angel who stands on the sea and on the land.”

There was given to him a mouth speaking arrogant words and blasphemies, and authority to act for forty-two months was given to him.