'Answer' in the Bible

The LORD asked me, "Son of Man, will these bones ever live?" "Lord GOD," I replied, "you know the answer to that!"

By way of answer, Daniel addressed the king:

"Daniel, I've now come to give you insight and understanding. Because you're highly regarded, the answer was issued when you began your prayer, and I've come to tell you. Pay attention to my message and you'll understand the vision.

""Don't be afraid, Daniel,' he told me, "because from the first day that you committed yourself to understand and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard. I've come in answer to your prayers.

Amos replied in answer to Amaziah, "I am no prophet, nor am I a prophet's son, for I have been shepherding and picking the fruit of sycamore trees.

Those who see visions will be put to shame, and the diviners will be disgraced every one of them they will cover their faces, because there will be no answer from God.'"

"My people, what have I done to you, and how have I offended you? Answer me!

"I will stand at my guard post and station myself on a tower. I will wait and see what the LORD will say about me and what I will answer when he reprimands me."

"I will fortify the house of Judah, and the house of Joseph I will save. I will surely bring them back, because I care about them. They will be as if I had never cast them away. Since I am the LORD their God, I will answer them.

And I will bring that surviving third through, testing them as if through fire, purifying them like silver, assaying them like gold. They will call on my name, and I will answer them. I will say, "This is my people,' and they will say, "The LORD is my God.'"

But he didn't answer her at all. Then his disciples came up and kept urging him, "Send her away, because she keeps on screaming as she follows us."

Jesus answered them, "I, too, will ask you one question. If you answer it for me, I will also tell you by what authority I am doing these things.

No one could answer him at all, and from that day on no one dared to ask him another question.

The king will answer them, "I tell all of you with certainty, since you did it for one of the least important of these brothers of mine, you did it for me.'

At this, the high priest stood up and asked Jesus, "Don't you have any answer to what these men are testifying against you?"

Jesus told them, "I'll ask you one question. Answer me, and then I'll tell you by what authority I'm doing these things.

Was John's authority to baptize from heaven or from humans? Answer me."

Then the high priest stood up before them and asked Jesus, "Don't you have any answer to what these men are testifying against you?"

But he kept silent and didn't answer at all. The high priest asked him again, "Are you the Messiah, the Son of the Blessed One?"

So Pilate asked him again, "Don't you have any answer? Look how many accusations they're bringing against you!"

After the homeowner gets up and closes the door, you can stand outside, knock on the door, and say again and again, "Lord, open the door for us!' But he will answer you, "I don't know where you come from.'

So they couldn't catch him before the people in what he said. Amazed at his answer, they became silent.

Then some of the scribes replied, "Teacher, you have given a fine answer."

But he told them, "If I tell you, you won't believe me, and if I ask you a question, you won't answer me.

So he continued to question him for a long time, but Jesus gave him no answer at all.

"Who are you?" they asked him. "We must give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?"

When he said this, one of the officers standing nearby slapped Jesus on the face and demanded, "Is that any way to answer the high priest?"

Returning to his headquarters, he asked Jesus, "Where are you from?" But Jesus did not answer him.

When he knocked at the outer gate, a servant girl named Rhoda came to answer it.

When slandered, we answer with kind words. Even now we have become the filth of the world, the scum of the universe.

We are not recommending ourselves to you again but are giving you a reason to be proud of us, so that you can answer those who are proud of outward things rather than inward character.

Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer everyone.