'Ears' in the Bible

And when it came to the ears of Herod the king, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.

But when it came to his ears that Archelaus was ruling over Judaea in the place of his father Herod, he was in fear of going there; and God having given him news of the danger in a dream, he went out of the way into the country parts of Galilee.

Now when it came to his ears that John had been put in prison, he went away to Galilee;

And when these words came to the ears of Jesus he was surprised, and said to those who came after him, Truly I say to you, I have not seen such great faith, no, not in Israel.

The blind see; those who were not able to, are walking; lepers are made clean; those who were without hearing, now have their ears open; the dead come to life again, and the poor have the good news given to them.

He who has ears, let him give ear.

He who has ears, let him give ear.

For the heart of this people has become fat and their ears are slow in hearing and their eyes are shut; for fear that they might see with their eyes and give hearing with their ears and become wise in their hearts and be turned again to me, so that I might make them well.

But a blessing be on your eyes, because they see; and on your ears, because they are open.

For truly, I say to you that prophets and upright men had a desire to see the things which you see, and saw them not; and to have knowledge of the words which have come to your ears, and they had it not.

Then will the upright be shining as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him give ear.

Now when it came to the ears of Jesus, he went away from there in a boat, to a waste place by himself: and the people hearing of it, went after him on foot from the towns.

Then the disciples came and said to him, Did you see that the Pharisees were troubled when these words came to their ears?

And when it came to the ears of the ten, they were angry with the two brothers.

And when his stories came to the ears of the chief priests and the Pharisees, they saw that he was talking of them.

Then the high priest, violently parting his robes, said, He has said evil against God: what more need have we of witnesses? for now his words against God have come to your ears:

And if this comes to the ruler's ears, we will see that he does not make you responsible.

And he said to them, Whoever has ears, let him give ear.

And in the same way, these are they who are planted on the stones, who, when the word has come to their ears, straight away take it with joy;

If any man has ears, let him give ear.

And he took him on one side from the people privately, and put his fingers into his ears, and he put water from his mouth on the man's tongue with his finger;

And his ears became open, and the band of his tongue was made loose, and his words became clear.

Having eyes, do you not see? and having ears, have you no hearing? and have you no memory?

And when it came to his ears that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he gave a cry, and said, Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me.

And it came to the ears of the chief priests and scribes, and they took thought how they might put him to death; being in fear of him, because all the people were full of wonder at his teaching.

His words against God have come to your ears: what is your opinion? And they all said it was right for him to be put to death.

And they, when it came to their ears that he was living, and had been seen by her, had no belief in it.

But the angel said, Have no fear, Zacharias, for your prayer has come to the ears of God, and your wife Elisabeth will have a son, and his name will be John.

And when the voice of Mary came to the ears of Elisabeth, the baby made a sudden move inside her; then Elisabeth was full of the Holy Spirit,

For, truly, when the sound of your voice came to my ears, the baby in my body made a sudden move for joy.

And it came to the ears of her neighbours and relations that the Lord had been very good to her, and they took part in her joy.

And all those to whose ears it came were full of wonder at the things said by the keepers of the sheep.

Then the keepers of the sheep went back, giving glory and praise to God for all the things which had come to their ears and which they had seen, as it had been said to them.

And all to whose ears it came were full of wonder at his knowledge and the answers which he gave.

And when news of Jesus came to his ears, he sent to him rulers of the Jews, requesting that he would come and make his servant well.

And answering them he said, Go back and give news to John of what you have seen, and the things which have come to your ears; the blind now see, those who had no power in their legs are walking, lepers are made clean, those who had no hearing now have their ears open, dead men come to life again, and the poor have the good news given to them.

And some falling on good earth, came up and gave fruit a hundred times as much. And with these words he said in a loud voice, He who has ears, let him give ear.

Let these words go deep into your ears, for the Son of man will be given up into the hands of men.

For I say to you that numbers of prophets and kings have had a desire to see the things which you see, and have not seen them, and to have knowledge of the things which have come to your ears, and they had it not.

It is no good for the land or for the place of waste; no one has a use for it. He who has ears, let him give ear.

Now the older son was in the field: and when he came near the house, the sounds of music and dancing came to his ears.

And will not God do right in the cause of his saints, whose cries come day and night to his ears, though he is long in doing it?

And when news of wars and troubled times comes to your ears, have no fear; for these things have to be, but the end will not be now.

The wind goes where its pleasure takes it, and the sound of it comes to your ears, but you are unable to say where it comes from and where it goes: so it is with everyone whose birth is from the Spirit.

He who has the bride is the husband: but the husband's friend, whose place is by his side and whose ears are open to him, is full of joy because of the husband's voice: such is my joy, and it is complete.

He gives witness of what he has seen and of what has come to his ears; and no man takes his witness as true.

Now when it was clear to the Lord that word had come to the ears of the Pharisees that Jesus was making more disciples than John and was giving them baptism

When it came to his ears that Jesus had come from Judaea into Galilee, he went to him and made a request that he would come down to his son, who was near to death, and make him well.

Truly I say to you, The man whose ears are open to my word and who has faith in him who sent me, has eternal life; he will not be judged, but has come from death into life.

Truly I say to you, The time is coming, it has even now come, when the voice of the Son of God will come to the ears of the dead, and those hearing it will have life.

The writings of the prophets say, And they will all have teaching from God. Everyone whose ears have been open to the teaching of the Father comes to me.

This discussion of the people came to the ears of the Pharisees; and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent servants to take him.

When these words came to their ears, some of the people said, This is certainly the prophet.

And when his words came to their ears, they went out one by one, starting with the oldest even to the last, because they were conscious of what was in their hearts: and Jesus was there by himself with the woman before him.

Why are my words not clear to you? It is because your ears are shut to my teaching.

He who is a child of God gives ear to the words of God: your ears are not open to them because you are not from God.

His answer was: I have said it before, but your ears were shut: why would you have me say it again? is it your desire to become his disciples?

We have knowledge that God does not give ear to sinners, but if any man is a worshipper of God and does his pleasure, to him God's ears are open.

It came to the ears of Jesus that they had put him out, and meeting him he said, Have you faith in the Son of man?

These words came to the ears of the Pharisees who were with him and they said to him, Are we, then, blind?

When this came to his ears, Jesus said, The end of this disease is not death, but the glory of God, so that the Son of God may have glory because of it.

I was certain that your ears are at all times open to me, but I said it because of these who are here, so that they may see that you sent me.

And that was the reason the people went out to him, because it had come to their ears that he had done this sign.

When this saying came to Pilate's ears his fear became greater;

And when this sound came to their ears, they all came together, and were greatly surprised because every man was hearing the words of the disciples in his special language.

Now when these words came to their ears their hearts were troubled, and they said to Peter and the other Apostles, Brothers, what are we to do?

But when these words came to their ears, they were cut to the heart, and had a mind to put them to death.

Truly, I have seen the sorrows of my people in Egypt, and their cries have come to my ears, and I have come down to make them free: and now, come, I will send you to Egypt.

You whose hearts are hard and whose ears are shut to me; you are ever working against the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.

But with loud cries, and stopping their ears, they made an attack on him all together,

Who said, Cornelius, your prayer has come to the ears of God, and your offerings are kept in his memory.

And a voice came to my ears saying, Come, Peter; take them for food.

And news of them came to the ears of the church at Jerusalem: and they sent Barnabas as far as Antioch:

For the men of Jerusalem and their rulers, having no knowledge of him, or of the sayings of the prophets which come to their ears every Sabbath day, gave effect to them by judging him.

But when this came to the ears of the Apostles, Paul and Barnabas, they went running out among the people, parting their clothing, and crying out,

And this came to the ears of all those, Jews and Greeks, who were living at Ephesus; and fear came on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was made great.

And you see, for it has come to your ears, that not only at Ephesus, but almost all through Asia, this Paul has been teaching numbers of people and turning them away, saying that those are not gods who are made by men's hands:

And when I went down on the earth, a voice came to my ears saying to me, Saul, Saul, why are you attacking me so cruelly?

And those who were with me saw the light, but the voice of him who was talking to me came not to their ears.

For you will be a witness for him to all men of what you have seen and of what has come to your ears.

For the heart of this people has become fat and their ears are slow in hearing and their eyes are shut; for fear that they might see with their eyes and give hearing with their ears and become wise in their hearts and be turned again to me, so that I might make them well.

But I say, Did not the word come to their ears? Yes, certainly: Their sound has gone out into all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world.

As it was said in the holy Writings, God gave them a spirit of sleep, eyes which might not see, and ears which have no hearing, to this day.

But as it is said in the holy Writings, They will see, to whom the news of him had not been given, and those to whose ears it had not come will have knowledge.

But as it says in the holy Writings, Things which the eye saw not, and which had not come to the ears or into the heart of man, such things as God has made ready for those who have love for him.

For first of all, it has come to my ears that when you come together in the church, there are divisions among you, and I take the statement to be true in part.

How he was taken up into Paradise, and words came to his ears which may not be said, and which man is not able to say.

Only it came to their ears that he who at one time was cruel to us is now preaching the faith which before had been attacked by him;

Which has come to you; and which in all the world is giving fruit and increase, as it has done in you from the day when it came to your ears and you had true knowledge of the grace of God;

And for this cause we still give praise to God, that, when the word came to your ears through us, you took it, not as the word of man, but, as it truly is, the word of God, which has living power in you who have faith.

For it has come to our ears that there are some among you whose behaviour is uncontrolled, who do no work at all, but are over-interested in the business of others.

And shutting their ears to what is true, will be turned away to belief in foolish stories.

For this reason there is the more need for us to give attention to the things which have come to our ears, for fear that by chance we might be slipping away.

And so, as the Holy Spirit says, Today if you let his voice come to your ears,

As it is said, Today if you will let his voice come to your ears, be not hard of heart, as when you made him angry.

After a long time, again naming a certain day, he says in David, Today (as he had said before), Today if you will let his voice come to your ears, be not hard of heart,

See that you give ear to his voice which comes to you. For if those whose ears were shut to the voice which came to them on earth did not go free from punishment, what chance have we of going free if we give no attention to him whose voice comes from heaven?

See, the money which you falsely kept back from the workers cutting the grass in your field, is crying out against you; and the cries of those who took in your grain have come to the ears of the Lord of armies.

And it was made clear to those prophets that they were God's servants not for themselves but for you, to give you word of the things which have now come to your ears from the preachers of the good news through the Holy Spirit sent down from heaven; things which even angels have a desire to see.

For the eyes of the Lord are on the upright, and his ears are open to their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.