'Listen' in the Bible

If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that house or town.

Anyone who has ears should listen!

The Queen of the South (Sheba) will stand up [as a witness] at the judgment against this generation, and will condemn it because she came from the ends of the earth to listen to the wisdom of Solomon; and now, something greater than Solomon is here.

Someone said to Him, “Look! Your mother and Your brothers are standing outside asking to speak to You.”

Then he began to tell them many things in parables. He said, "Listen! A farmer went out to sow.

Anyone who has ears should listen!”

For this reason I speak to them in parables, because looking they do not see, and hearing they do not listen or understand.

Isaiah’s prophecy is fulfilled in them, which says:You will listen and listen,yet never understand;and you will look and look,yet never perceive.

“You, then, listen to the parable of the sower:

Then the righteous will shine like the sun in their Father’s kingdom. Anyone who has ears should listen!

Summoning the crowd, He told them, “Listen and understand:

While he was still speaking, suddenly a bright cloud covered them, and a voice from the cloud said:This is My beloved Son.I take delight in Him.Listen to Him!

But if he won’t listen, take one or two more with you, so that by the testimony of two or three witnesses every fact may be established.

But if he will not listen to them, tell it to the assembly; and if also he will not listen to the assembly, let him be to thee as one of the nations and a tax-gatherer.

“Listen! We are going up to Jerusalem. The Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn Him to death.

“Listen to another parable: There was a man, a landowner, who planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a watchtower. He leased it to tenant farmers and went away.

Then the high priest tore his robes and said, "He has blasphemed! Why do we still need witnesses? Listen! You yourselves have just heard the blasphemy!

Then go quickly and tell His disciples, ‘He has been raised from the dead. In fact, He is going ahead of you to Galilee; you will see Him there.’ Listen, I have told you.”

Once more He began to teach by the side of the Lake, and a vast multitude of people came together to listen to Him. He therefore went on board the boat and sat there, a little way from the land; and all the people were on the shore close to the water.

“Listen! Consider the sower who went out to sow.

Then He said, “Anyone who has ears to hear should listen!”

so thatthey may look and look,yet not perceive;they may listen and listen,yet not understand;otherwise, they might turn back—and be forgiven.”

If anyone has ears to hear, he should listen!”

And He was saying to them, “Take care what you listen to. By your standard of measure it will be measured to you; and more will be given you besides.

If any place does not welcome you and people refuse to listen to you, when you leave there, shake the dust off your feet as a testimony against them.”

because Herod stood in awe of John and protected him, since he knew that John was a righteous and holy man. When Herod heard him, he was thoroughly baffled, and yet he liked to listen to John.

Summoning the crowd again, He told them, “Listen to Me, all of you, and understand:

[If anyone has ears to hear, he should listen!]”

A cloud appeared, overshadowing them, and a voice came from the cloud:This is My beloved Son;listen to Him!

“Listen! We are going up to Jerusalem. The Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and the scribes, and they will condemn Him to death. Then they will hand Him over to the Gentiles,

“This is the most important,” Jesus answered:Listen, Israel! The Lord our God, the Lord is One.

Pilate again and again asked Him, "Do you make no reply? Listen to the many charges they are bringing against you."

When some of the people standing there heard this, they said, "Listen! He's calling for Elijah!"

Now listen! You will become silent and unable to speak until the day these things take place, because you did not believe my words, which will be fulfilled in their proper time.”

Now listen:You will conceive and give birth to a son,and you will call His name Jesus.

And listen! Elizabeth, your relative, has herself conceived a son in her old age, this woman who was rumored to be barren is in her sixth month.

Then the angel told them, "Stop being afraid! Listen! I am bringing you good news of great joy for all the people.

Then Simeon blessed them and said to his mother Mary, "Listen carefully: This child is destined to be the cause of the falling and rising of many in Israel and to be a sign that will be rejected.

He began by saying to them, “Today as you listen, this Scripture has been fulfilled.”

One day, as the crowd was pressing in on him to listen to God's word, Jesus was standing by the lake of Gennesaret.

Then Jesus came down with them and stood on a level place; and there was a large crowd of His disciples, and a vast multitude of people from all over Judea and Jerusalem and the coastal region of Tyre and Sidon,

“But I say to you who listen: Love your enemies, do what is good to those who hate you,

Still other seed fell on good ground; when it sprang up, it produced a crop: 100 times what was sown.” As He said this, He called out, “Anyone who has ears to hear should listen!”

So he said, "You have been given knowledge about the secrets of the kingdom of God. But to others they are given in parables, so that "they might look but not see, and they might listen but not understand.'"

The ones on the path are the people who listen, but then the Devil comes and takes the word away from their hearts, so that they may not believe and be saved.

The ones that fell among the thorn bushes are the people who listen, but as they go on their way they are choked by the worries, wealth, and pleasures of life, and their fruit doesn't mature.

Therefore take care how you listen. For whoever has, more will be given to him; and whoever does not have, even what he thinks he has will be taken away from him.”

But He answered, “My mother and My brothers are these who listen to the word of God and do it!”

Then a voice came from the cloud, saying:This is My Son, the Chosen One;listen to Him!

"Listen carefully to these words. The Son of Man is going to be betrayed into human hands."

The Queen of the South (the kingdom of Sheba) will rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation and condemn them, because she came from the ends of the earth to listen to the wisdom of Solomon, and look, something greater than Solomon is here.

He told the vineyard worker, ‘Listen, for three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree and haven’t found any. Cut it down! Why should it even waste the soil?’

He told them, "Go and tell that fox, "Listen! I am driving out demons and healing today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will finish my work.

It isn’t fit for the soil or for the manure pile; they throw it out. Anyone who has ears to hear should listen!”

All the tax collectors and sinners were approaching to listen to Him.

But he answered his father, "Listen! All these years I've worked like a slave for you. I've never disobeyed a command of yours. Yet you've never given me so much as a young goat for a festival so I could celebrate with my friends.

“But Abraham said, ‘They have Moses and the prophets; they should listen to them.’

“But he told him, ‘If they don’t listen to Moses and the prophets, they will not be persuaded if someone rises from the dead.’”

Then the Lord said, “Listen to what the unjust judge says.

Then He took the Twelve aside and told them, “Listen! We are going up to Jerusalem. Everything that is written through the prophets about the Son of Man will be accomplished.

And all the people would get up early in the morning to listen to him in the Temple.

“Listen,” He said to them, “when you’ve entered the city, a man carrying a water jug will meet you. Follow him into the house he enters.

"Simon, Simon, listen! Satan has asked permission to sift all of you like wheat,

“Don’t you say, ‘There are still four more months, then comes the harvest’? Listen to what I’m telling you: Open your eyes and look at the fields, for they are ready for harvest.

Therefore many of His disciples, when they heard this said, “This is a difficult statement; who can listen to it?”

Why don’t you understand what I say? Because you cannot listen to My word.

The one who is from God listens to God’s words. This is why you don’t listen, because you are not from God.”

“I already told you,” he said, “and you didn’t listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You don’t want to become His disciples too, do you?”

We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is God-fearing and does His will, He listens to him.

The doorkeeper opens [the gate] for this man, and the sheep hear his voice and pay attention to it. And [knowing that they listen] he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out [to pasture].

All who came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn’t listen to them.

But I have other sheep that are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they will listen to My voice. Then there will be one flock, one shepherd.

Many of them were saying, “He has a demon and He’s crazy! Why do you listen to Him?”

My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

I knew that you always listen to me, but I said this for the sake of the crowd standing around here, that they may believe that you sent me."

Listen, the time is coming, indeed it has already come, when you will be scattered, each of you to his own home, and you will leave me all by myself. Yet I'm not alone, because the Father is with me.

But Peter stood up with the eleven, raised his voice, and addressed them: "You men of Judea and all you who live in Jerusalem, know this and listen carefully to what I say.

“Men of Israel, listen to these words: This Jesus the Nazarene was a man pointed out to you by God with miracles, wonders, and signs that God did among you through Him, just as you yourselves know.

Moses said:The Lord your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to Him in everything He will say to you.

And everyone who will not listen to that Prophet will be completely cut off from the people.

But Peter and John answered them, “Whether it’s right in the sight of God for us to listen to you rather than to God, you decide;

And now, Lord, listen to their threats, and enable Thy servants to proclaim Thy Message with fearless courage,

"How could you have agreed together to test the Spirit of the Lord?" Peter asked her. "Listen! The feet of the men who buried your husband are at the door, and these men will carry you outside as well."

But someone came and told them, “The men whom you put in prison are standing [right here] in the temple [area], teaching the people!”

“Brothers and fathers,” he said, “listen: The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he settled in Haran,

Our fathers were unwilling to be subject to him [and refused to listen to him]. They rejected him, and in their hearts turned back to Egypt.

They said, “Cornelius, a centurion, an upright and God-fearing man well spoken of by all the Jewish people, was divinely instructed by a holy angel to send for you to come to his house and hear what you have to say.”

So I sent for you immediately, and it was good of you to come. All of us are here now in the presence of God to listen to everything the Lord has ordered you to say."

And when he had knocked at the door of the entry, a maid came to listen, by name Rhoda;

But motioning to them with his hand to be quiet and listen, he described how the Lord had led him out of the prison. And he said, “Report these things to James and the brothers and sisters.” Then he left and went to another place.

Then Paul stood up and motioned with his hand and said: “Men of Israel, and you who fear God, listen!

"Men of Israel and you who fear God, listen! The God of this people Israel chose our ancestors and made them a great people during their stay in the land of Egypt, and with a public display of power he led them out of there.

After they stopped speaking, James responded: “Brothers, listen to me!

A woman named Lydia, from the city of Thyatira, a dealer in purple goods, was listening to us. She was a worshiper of God, and the Lord opened her heart to listen carefully to what was being said by Paul.

But when Paul was about to reply, Gallio said to the Jews, “If it were a matter of some misdemeanor or serious crime, O Jews, I would have reason to put up with you;

“Brothers and fathers, listen now to my defense before you.”

So do not listen to them, for more than forty of them are lying in wait for him who have bound themselves under a curse not to eat or drink until they slay him; and now they are ready and waiting for the promise from you.”

But--not to detain you too long--I beg you in your forbearance to listen to a brief statement from us.

especially since you are an expert in all the Jewish customs and controversies. Therefore I beg you to listen to me patiently.

“I wish before God,” replied Paul, “that whether easily or with difficulty, not only you but all who listen to me today might become as I am—except for these chains.”