'Speaking' in the Bible

When evening came, people brought to him many who were possessed by demons. He drove out the spirits by speaking a command and healed everyone who was sick.

It won't be you speaking, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.

While Jesus was still speaking to the crowds, his mother and brothers stood outside, wanting to speak to him.

As a result, the crowd was amazed to see those who were unable to talk speaking, the crippled healed, the lame walking, and the blind seeing. So they praised the God of Israel.

He was still speaking when a bright cloud suddenly overshadowed them. A voice from the cloud said, "This is my Son, whom I love. I am pleased with him. Keep on listening to him!"

Then the disciples understood that he had been speaking to them about John the Baptist.

Just then, while Jesus was still speaking, Judas, one of the Twelve, arrived. A large crowd armed with swords and clubs was with him. They were from the high priests and elders of the people.

Such a large crowd gathered that there wasn't room for them, even in front of the door. Jesus was speaking his message to them

With many other parables like these, Jesus kept speaking his message to them according to their ability to understand.

While he was still speaking, some people came from the synagogue leader's home and said, "Your daughter is dead. Why bother the Teacher anymore?"

He was speaking about this matter quite openly.

When they take you away and hand you over for trial, don't worry ahead of time about what you will say. Instead, say whatever is given to you at that time, because it won't be you speaking, but the Holy Spirit.

Just then, while Jesus was still speaking, Judas, one of the Twelve, arrived. A crowd armed with swords and clubs was with him. They were from the high priests, the scribes, and the elders.

When he had finished speaking, he told Simon, "Push out into deep water, and lower your nets for a catch."

While he was still speaking, someone came from the synagogue leader's home and told him, "Your daughter is dead. Stop bothering the teacher anymore."

While Jesus was still speaking, a crowd arrived. The man called Judas, one of the Twelve, was leading them, and he came close to Jesus to kiss him.

But Peter said, "Mister, I don't know what you're talking about!" Just then, while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed.

But the sanctuary he was speaking about was his own body.

"I am he," Jesus replied, "the one who is speaking to you."

Now he was speaking about Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, because this man was going to betray him, even though he was one of the Twelve.

If anyone wants to do his will, he'll know whether this teaching is from God or whether I'm speaking on my own.

And look, he is speaking in public, and they are not saying anything to him! Can it be that the authorities really know that this is the Messiah?

Jesus, however, had been speaking about his death, but they thought that he was speaking about resting or sleeping.

The disciples began looking at one another, completely mystified about whom he was speaking.

So Simon Peter motioned to this man to ask Jesus about whom he was speaking.

Jesus' disciples said, "Well, now you're speaking plainly and not using figurative language.

When that sound came, a crowd quickly gathered, startled because each one heard the disciples speaking in his own language.

Stunned and amazed, they asked, "All of these people who are speaking are Galileans, aren't they?

So how is it that each one of us hears them speaking in his own native language:

While they were speaking to the people, the priests, the commander of the Temple guards, and the Sadducees came to them.

So they were convinced by him. After calling in the apostles and beating them, they again ordered them to stop speaking in the name of Jesus and let them go.

But they could neither refute the wisdom nor withstand the Spirit by which he kept speaking.

So they secretly got some men to say, "We have heard him speaking blasphemous words against Moses and God."

So he freely circulated among them in Jerusalem, speaking courageously in the name of the Lord.

because they heard them speaking in foreign languages and praising God. Then Peter said,

Now the people who were scattered by the persecution that started because of Stephen went as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except Jews.

After Paul and Barnabas had finished speaking, James responded, "Brothers, listen to me:

Because they had been prevented by the Holy Spirit from speaking the word in Asia, Paul and Timothy went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia.

He had been instructed in the Lord's way, and with spiritual fervor he kept speaking and teaching accurately about Jesus, although he knew only about John's baptism.

On the first day of the week, when we had met to break bread, Paul began to address the people. Since he intended to leave the next day, he went on speaking until midnight.

A young man named Eutychus, who was sitting in a window, began to sink off into a deep sleep as Paul kept speaking longer and longer. Overcome by sleep, he fell down from the third floor and was picked up dead.

When they heard him speaking to them in Hebrew, they became even more quiet, and he continued:

"He told me, "I'm Jesus from Nazareth, whom you are persecuting.' The men who were with me saw the light but didn't understand the voice of the one who was speaking to me.

I am speaking in simple terms because of the frailty of your human nature. Just as you once offered the parts of your body as slaves to impurity and to greater and greater disobedience, so now, in the same way, you must offer the parts of your body as slaves to righteousness that leads to sanctification.

Don't you realize, brothers for I am speaking to people who know the Law that the Law can press its claims over a person only as long as he is alive?

I am speaking to you gentiles. Because I am an apostle to the gentiles, I magnify my ministry

Isn't he really speaking for our benefit? Yes, this was written for our benefit, because the one who plows should plow in hope, and the one who threshes should thresh in hope of sharing in the crop.

For this reason I want you to be aware that no one who is speaking by God's Spirit can say, "Jesus is cursed," and no one can say, "Jesus is Lord," except by the Holy Spirit.

For the person who speaks in a foreign language is not actually speaking to people but to God. Indeed, no one understands him, because he is talking about secrets by the Spirit.

Indeed, brothers, if I come to you speaking in foreign languages, what good will I be to you unless I speak to you in some revelation, knowledge, prophecy, or teaching?

Now if the whole church gathers in the same place and everyone is speaking in foreign languages, when uneducated people or unbelievers come in, they will say that you are out of your mind, won't they?

Therefore, my brothers, desire the ability to prophesy, and do not prevent others from speaking in foreign languages.

Have you been thinking all along that we are trying to defend ourselves before you? We are speaking before God in the authority of the Messiah, and everything, dear friends, is meant to build you up.

since you want proof that the Messiah is speaking through me. He is not weak in dealing with you but is making his power felt among you.

Instead, by speaking the truth in love, we will grow up completely and become one with the head, that is, one with the Messiah,

In speaking of a "new" covenant, he has made the first one obsolete, and what is obsolete and aging will soon disappear.

Abraham was certain that God could raise the dead, and figuratively speaking, he did get Isaac back in this way.

See to it that you do not ignore the one who is speaking. For if the hearers did not escape when they ignored the one who warned them on earth, how much less will we escape if we turn away from the one who is from heaven!

"For the person who wants to love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.

After these things, I saw a door standing open in heaven. The first voice that I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, "Come up here, and I will show you what must happen after this."