8 Bible Verses about Individuals Being Silent

Then he asked them. "Is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath Day, or to do harm? to save a life, or to destroy it?"

They kept silent. Then Jesus took him and healed him and let him go.

So they could not lay hold of his sayings before the people; and marveling at his answer, they held their peace.

But they were silent, for on the road they were disputing together which one was greatest.

Then the whole assembly remained silent, and listened to Barnabas and Saul as they told the signs and wonders which God had wrought among the Gentiles through them.

When they heard him speaking in Hebrew they became the more quiet.

Just then his disciples came up, and were astonished that he was talking with a woman; yet not one of them asked him, "What do you want?" or "Why are you talking with her?"

"And look! he is speaking boldly and they are saying nothing to him. Can it possibly be that the rulers have really discovered that he is the Christ?