20 Bible Verses about Silence

When the Pharisees heard he had silenced the Sadducees, they mustered their forces,

then he asked them, "Is it right to help or to hurt on the sabbath, to save life or to kill?" They were silent.

So they could not seize on what he said before the people, and marvelling at his reply they said nothing.

but as they saw the man who had been healed standing beside them, they could say nothing.

Whatever the Law says, we know, it says to those who are inside the Law, that every mouth may be shut and all the world made answerable to God;

Now the passage of scripture which he was reading was as follows: ??he was led like a sheep to be slaughtered, and as a lamb is dumb before the shearer, so he opens not his lips.

Jesus said nothing. Then the high priest addressed him, "I adjure you by the living God, tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God!"

He said nothing and made no answer. Again the high priest put a question to him. "Are you the Christ?" he said, "the Son of the Blessed?"

But, to Pilate's great astonishment, he would not answer him a single word.

and once more Pilate asked him, "Have you no reply to make? Look at all their charges against you." But, to the astonishment of Pilate, Jesus answered no more.

he went inside the praetorium again and asked Jesus, "Where do you come from?" Jesus made no reply.

But though he put many questions to him, Jesus gave him no answer.

But Jesus checked it; "Be quiet," he said, "come out of him." And after convulsing him the unclean spirit did come out of him with a loud cry.

But Jesus checked it, saying, "Be quiet, come out of him." And after throwing him down before them the daemon did come out of him without doing him any harm.

And he woke up, checked the wind, and told the sea, "Peace, be quiet." The wind fell and there was a great calm.

And when he opened the seventh seal, silence reigned in heaven for about half-an-hour.

When the voice ceased, they found themselves alone with Jesus. And in those days they kept silence and told nobody anything of what they had seen.

So the whole meeting was quieted and listened to Barnabas and Paul recounting the signs and wonders God had performed by them among the Gentiles.

When the tumult had ceased, Paul sent for the disciples and encouraged them; he then took leave of them and went his way to Macedonia.