'Insisting' in the Bible

“You’re crazy!” they told her. But she kept insisting that it was true. Then they said, “It’s his angel!”

But Paul kept insisting that they should not take him along who had deserted them in Pamphylia and had not gone with them to the work.

which he clearly explained, pointing out that it had been necessary for the Christ to suffer and rise again from the dead, and insisting, "The Jesus whom I am announcing to you is the Christ."

Then Festus said, “King Agrippa and all you gentlemen present with us, you see this man [Paul] about whom all the Jewish people appealed to me, both at Jerusalem and here, loudly insisting that he ought not to live any longer.