'Listen' in the Bible
Many therefore of His disciples, when they heard it, said, "This is hard to accept. Who can listen to such teaching?"
How is it you do not understand me when I speak? It is because you cannot bear to listen to my words.
He who is a child of God listens to God's words. You do not listen to them: and why? It is because you are not God's children."
"I have told you already," he replied, "and you did not listen to me. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you also mean to be disciples of his?"
We know that God does not listen to bad people, but that if any one is a God-fearing man and obeys Him, to him He listens.
All who have come before me are thieves and robbers; but the sheep would not listen to them.
I have also other sheep--which do not belong to this fold. Those also I must bring, and they will listen to my voice; and they shall become one flock under one Shepherd.
Many of them said, "He is possessed by a demon and is mad. Why do you listen to him?"
My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.