'Saying' in the Bible

John testified about him and cried out, saying, "This one was [he about] whom I said, 'The one who comes after me is ahead of me, because he existed before me.'"

John answered them, saying, "I baptize with water. In your midst stands [one] whom you do not know--

And John testified, saying, "I have seen the Spirit descending like a dove from heaven and remaining upon him.

So when he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the scripture and the saying that Jesus had spoken.

In the meanwhile the disciples were asking him, saying, "Rabbi, eat [something]!"

For in this [instance] the saying is true, 'It is one who sows and another who reaps.'

And they were saying to the woman, "No longer because of {what you said} do we believe, for we ourselves have heard, and we know that this one is truly the Savior of the world!"

Now [as] he was going down, his slaves met him, saying that his child was alive.

So the Jews were saying to the one who had been healed, "It is the Sabbath, and it is not permitted for you to pick up the mat!"

and they were saying, "Is this one not Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How does he now say, 'I have come down from heaven'?"

So the Jews began to quarrel {among themselves}, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"

Thus many of his disciples, [when they] heard [it], said, "This saying is hard! Who can understand it?"

So the Jews were looking for him at the feast, and were saying, "Where is he?"

And there was a lot of grumbling concerning him among the crowds; some were saying, "He is a good [man]," but others were saying, "No, but he deceives the crowd."

Then the Jews were astonished, saying, "How does this man {possess knowledge}, [because he] has not been taught?"

And behold, he is speaking openly and they are saying nothing to him! Can it be that the rulers truly know that this man is the Christ?

Then Jesus cried out in the temple [courts], teaching and saying, "You both know me and you know where I am from! And I have not come from myself, but the one who sent me is true, whom you do not know.

But from the crowd many believed in him and were saying, "Whenever the Christ comes, he will not perform more signs than this man has done, [will he]?"

What is this saying that he said, 'You will seek me and will not find [me], and where I am, you cannot come'?"

Now on the last day of the feast--the great [day]--Jesus stood and cried out, saying, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me, and let him drink,

Others were saying, "This man is the Christ!" But others were saying, "No, for the Christ does not come from Galilee, [does he]?

(Now they were saying this to test him, so that they would have [an occasion] to bring charges against him.) But Jesus, bending down, began to write with [his] finger on the ground, taking no notice.

Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, "I am the light of the world! The one who follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."

So they were saying to him, "Where is your father?" Jesus replied, "You know neither me nor my Father! If you had known me, you would have known my Father also."

Then the Jews began to say, "Perhaps he will kill himself, because he is saying, 'Where I am going you cannot come.'"

So they began to say to him, "Who are you?" Jesus said to them, "{What} I have been saying to you [from] the beginning.

[While] he was saying these [things], many believed in him.

And his disciples asked him, saying, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he should be born blind?"

Others were saying, "It is this man"; others were saying, "No, but he is like him." That one was saying, "I am [he]!"

So some of the Pharisees were saying, "This man is not from God, because he does not observe the Sabbath!" Others were saying, "How can a man [who is] a sinner perform such signs?" And there was a division among them.

And they asked them, saying, "Is this man your son, whom you say was born blind? Then how does he now see?"

Jesus told them this parable, but they did not understand what it was that he was saying to them.

And many of them were saying, "He has a demon and is out of his mind! Why do you listen to him?"

Others were saying, "These are not the words of one who is possessed by a demon! A demon is not able to open the eyes of the blind, [is it]?"

So the sisters sent [word] to him, saying, "Lord, behold, [the one] whom you love is sick."

And [when she] had said this, she went and called her sister Mary privately, saying, "The Teacher is here and is calling for you."

Then Mary, when she came where Jesus was [and] saw him, fell at his feet, saying to him, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died."

So the Jews were saying, "See how he loved him!"

So these approached Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and began asking him saying, "Sir, we want to see Jesus."

And Jesus answered them, saying, "The hour has come that the Son of Man will be glorified.

Now the crowd that stood [there] and heard [it] said {it had thundered}. Others were saying, "An angel has spoken to him!"

So some of his disciples said to one another, "What is this that he is saying to us, 'A little [while] and you will not see me, and again a little [while] and you will see me,' and 'Because I am going away to the Father'?"

So they kept on saying, "What is this that he is saying, 'A little [while]'? We do not understand what he is speaking about!"

His disciples said, "Behold, now you are speaking {plainly} and are telling [us] no figurative saying!

And now I am coming to you, and I am saying these [things] in the world so that they may have my joy completed in themselves.

Now [when] he had said these [things], one of the officers who was standing by gave a slap in the face to Jesus, saying, "Do you reply to the high priest in this way?"

Then they shouted again, saying, "Not this man, but Barabbas!" (Now Barabbas was a revolutionary.)

and were coming up to him and saying, "Hail, king of the Jews!" and were giving him slaps in the face.

So when they saw him, the chief priests and the officers shouted, saying, "Crucify! Crucify!" Pilate said to them, "You take him and crucify [him]! For I do not find a basis for an accusation against him."

From this [point on] Pilate was seeking to release him, but the Jews shouted, saying, "If you release this man, you are not a friend of Caesar! Everyone who makes himself out to be a king opposes Caesar!"

So this saying went out to the brothers that that disciple would not die. But Jesus did not say to him that he would not die, but "If I want him to remain until I come, what [is that] to you?"