'Saying' in the Bible

Jesus went with them. When he was now not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to him, saying to him, "Lord, don't trouble yourself, for I am not worthy for you to come under my roof.

Fear took hold of all, and they glorified God, saying, "A great prophet has arisen among us!" and, "God has visited his people!"

John, calling to himself two of his disciples, sent them to Jesus, saying, "Are you the one who is coming, or should we look for another?"

When the men had come to him, they said, "John the Baptizer has sent us to you, saying, 'Are you he who comes, or should we look for another?'"

They are like children who sit in the marketplace, and call one to another, saying, 'We piped to you, and you didn't dance. We mourned, and you didn't weep.'

It was told him by some saying, "Your mother and your brothers stand outside, desiring to see you."

They came to him, and awoke him, saying, "Master, master, we are dying!" He awoke, and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water, and they ceased, and it was calm.

He said to them, "Where is your faith?" Being afraid they marveled, saying one to another, "Who is this, then, that he commands even the winds and the water, and they obey him?"

But the man from whom the demons had gone out begged him that he might go with him, but Jesus sent him away, saying,

While he still spoke, one from the ruler of the synagogue's house came, saying to him, "Your daughter is dead. Don't trouble the Teacher."

But he put them all outside, and taking her by the hand, he called, saying, "Child, arise!"

saying, "The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up."

A voice came out of the cloud, saying, "This is my beloved Son. Listen to him!"

Behold, a man from the crowd called out, saying, "Teacher, I beg you to look at my son, for he is my only child.

But they didn't understand this saying. It was concealed from them, that they should not perceive it, and they were afraid to ask him about this saying.

The seventy returned with joy, saying, "Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!"

Behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested him, saying, "Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?"

One of the lawyers answered him, "Teacher, in saying this you insult us also."

He spoke a parable to them, saying, "The ground of a certain rich man brought forth abundantly.

He reasoned within himself, saying, 'What will I do, because I don't have room to store my crops?'

When once the master of the house has risen up, and has shut the door, and you begin to stand outside, and to knock at the door, saying, 'Lord, Lord, open to us!' then he will answer and tell you, 'I don't know you or where you come from.'

On that same day, some Pharisees came, saying to him, "Get out of here, and go away, for Herod wants to kill you."

Jesus, answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?"

saying, 'This man began to build, and wasn't able to finish.'

The Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, "This man welcomes sinners, and eats with them."

When he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!'

When she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found the drachma which I had lost.'

If he sins against you seven times in the day, and seven times returns, saying, 'I repent,' you shall forgive him."

They lifted up their voices, saying, "Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!"

saying, "There was a judge in a certain city who didn't fear God, and didn't respect man.

A widow was in that city, and she often came to him, saying, 'Defend me from my adversary!'

But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn't even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me, a sinner!'

Jesus summoned them, saying, "Allow the little children to come to me, and don't hinder them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

A certain ruler asked him, saying, "Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?"

They understood none of these things. This saying was hidden from them, and they didn't understand the things that were said.

When they saw it, they all murmured, saying, "He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner."

But his citizens hated him, and sent an envoy after him, saying, 'We don't want this man to reign over us.'

The first came before him, saying, 'Lord, your mina has made ten more minas.'

"The second came, saying, 'Your mina, Lord, has made five minas.'

Another came, saying, 'Lord, behold, your mina, which I kept laid away in a handkerchief,

saying, "Go your way into the village on the other side, in which, as you enter, you will find a colt tied, whereon no man ever yet sat. Untie it, and bring it.

saying, "Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven, and glory in the highest!"

saying, "If you, even you, had known today the things which belong to your peace! But now, they are hidden from your eyes.

saying to them, "It is written, 'My house is a house of prayer,' but you have made it a 'den of robbers'!"

They reasoned with themselves, saying, "If we say, 'From heaven,' he will say, 'Why didn't you believe him?'

"But when the farmers saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, 'This is the heir. Come, let's kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.'

He said, "Watch out that you don't get led astray, for many will come in my name, saying, 'I am he,' and, 'The time is at hand.' Therefore don't follow them.

He sent Peter and John, saying, "Go and prepare the Passover for us, that we may eat."

He took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and gave to them, saying, "This is my body which is given for you. Do this in memory of me."

Likewise, he took the cup after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.

saying, "Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done."

He denied Jesus, saying, "Woman, I don't know him."

After about one hour passed, another confidently affirmed, saying, "Truly this man also was with him, for he is a Galilean!"

As soon as it was day, the assembly of the elders of the people was gathered together, both chief priests and scribes, and they led him away into their council, saying,

They began to accuse him, saying, "We found this man perverting the nation, forbidding paying taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king."

But they insisted, saying, "He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee even to this place."

But they all cried out together, saying, "Away with this man! Release to us Barabbas!" --

but they shouted, saying, "Crucify! Crucify him!"

The people stood watching. The rulers with them also scoffed at him, saying, "He saved others. Let him save himself, if this is the Christ of God, his chosen one!"

and saying, "If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself!"

One of the criminals who was hanged insulted him, saying, "If you are the Christ, save yourself and us!"

When the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, "Certainly this was a righteous man."

saying that the Son of Man must be delivered up into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again?"

and when they didn't find his body, they came saying that they had also seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive.

They urged him, saying, "Stay with us, for it is almost evening, and the day is almost over." He went in to stay with them.

saying, "The Lord is risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon!"

John testified about him. He cried out, saying, "This was he of whom I said, 'He who comes after me has surpassed me, for he was before me.'"

John testified, saying, "I have seen the Spirit descending like a dove out of heaven, and it remained on him.

In the meanwhile, the disciples urged him, saying, "Rabbi, eat."

For in this the saying is true, 'One sows, and another reaps.'

As he was now going down, his servants met him and reported, saying "Your child lives!"

The Jews therefore contended with one another, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"

Therefore many of his disciples, when they heard this, said, "This is a hard saying! Who can listen to it?"

The Jews therefore marveled, saying, "How does this man know letters, having never been educated?"

Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, "You both know me, and know where I am from. I have not come of myself, but he who sent me is true, whom you don't know.

Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, "I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life."

They said therefore to him, "Who are you?" Jesus said to them, "Just what I have been saying to you from the beginning.

Others were saying, "It is he." Still others were saying, "He looks like him." He said, "I am he."

The sisters therefore sent to him, saying, "Lord, behold, he for whom you have great affection is sick."

When she had said this, she went away, and called Mary, her sister, secretly, saying, "The Teacher is here, and is calling you."

Then the Jews who were with her in the house, and were consoling her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up quickly and went out, followed her, saying, "She is going to the tomb to weep there."

Therefore when Mary came to where Jesus was, and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying to him, "Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn't have died."

These, therefore, came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galilee, and asked him, saying, "Sir, we want to see Jesus."

Father, glorify your name!" Then there came a voice out of the sky, saying, "I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again."

They said therefore, "What is this that he says, 'A little while?' We don't know what he is saying."

When he had said this, one of the officers standing by slapped Jesus with his hand, saying, "Do you answer the high priest like that?"

Then they all shouted again, saying, "Not this man, but Barabbas!" Now Barabbas was a robber.

They kept saying, "Hail, King of the Jews!" and they kept slapping him.

When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him, they shouted, saying, "Crucify! Crucify!" Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves, and crucify him, for I find no basis for a charge against him."

When therefore Pilate heard this saying, he was more afraid.

At this, Pilate was seeking to release him, but the Jews cried out, saying, "If you release this man, you aren't Caesar's friend! Everyone who makes himself a king speaks against Caesar!"

This saying therefore went out among the brothers, that this disciple wouldn't die. Yet Jesus didn't say to him that he wouldn't die, but, "If I desire that he stay until I come, what is that to you?"

They were all amazed and marveled, saying to one another, "Behold, aren't all these who speak Galileans?

They were all amazed, and were perplexed, saying one to another, "What does this mean?"

With many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, "Save yourselves from this crooked generation!"

You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, 'In your seed will all the families of the earth be blessed.'

saying, "What shall we do to these men? Because indeed a notable miracle has been done through them, as can be plainly seen by all who dwell in Jerusalem, and we can't deny it.

saying, "Didn't we strictly command you not to teach in this name? Behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and intend to bring this man's blood on us."

"The day following, he appeared to them as they fought, and urged them to be at peace again, saying, 'Sirs, you are brothers. Why do you wrong one another?'

But he who did his neighbor wrong pushed him away, saying, 'Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?