'Speaking' in the Bible

For it is not you speaking, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.

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

As a result, the crowd was amazed when they saw the mute speaking, the crippled healthy, the lame walking, and the blind seeing, and they praised the God of Israel.

How could you not understand that I was not speaking to you about bread? But beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees!"

While he was still speaking, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and a voice from the cloud said, "This is my one dear Son, in whom I take great delight. Listen to him!"

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

When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they realized that he was speaking about them.

While he was still speaking, Judas, one of the twelve, arrived. With him was a large crowd armed with swords and clubs, sent by the chief priests and elders of the people.

While he was still speaking, people came from the synagogue ruler's house saying, "Your daughter has died. Why trouble the teacher any longer?"

They brought to him a deaf man who had difficulty speaking, and they asked him to place his hands on him.

When they arrest you and hand you over for trial, do not worry about what to speak. But say whatever is given you at that time, for it is not you speaking, but the Holy Spirit.

Right away, while Jesus was still speaking, Judas, one of the twelve, arrived. With him came a crowd armed with swords and clubs, sent by the chief priests and experts in the law and elders.

All were speaking well of him, and were amazed at the gracious words coming out of his mouth. They said, "Isn't this Joseph's son?"

When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, "Put out into the deep water and lower your nets for a catch."

While he was still speaking, someone from the synagogue ruler's house came and said, "Your daughter is dead; do not trouble the teacher any longer."

Now while some were speaking about the temple, how it was adorned with beautiful stones and offerings, Jesus said,

While he was still speaking, suddenly a crowd appeared, and the man named Judas, one of the twelve, was leading them. He walked up to Jesus to kiss him.

But Peter said, "Man, I don't know what you're talking about!" At that moment, while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed.

They said to each other, "Didn't our hearts burn within us while he was speaking with us on the road, while he was explaining the scriptures to us?"

But Jesus was speaking about the temple of his body.

Jesus said to her, "I, the one speaking to you, am he."

Now at that very moment his disciples came back. They were shocked because he was speaking with a woman. However, no one said, "What do you want?" or "Why are you speaking with her?"

Yet here he is, speaking publicly, and they are saying nothing to him. Do the rulers really know that this man is the Christ?

Jesus told him, "You have seen him; he is the one speaking with you."

His disciples said, "Look, now you are speaking plainly and not in obscure figures of speech!

When this sound occurred, a crowd gathered and was in confusion, because each one heard them speaking in his own language.

Completely baffled, they said, "Aren't all these who are speaking Galileans?

both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabs -- we hear them speaking in our own languages about the great deeds God has done!"

While Peter and John were speaking to the people, the priests and the commander of the temple guard and the Sadducees came up to them,

Then they secretly instigated some men to say, "We have heard this man speaking blasphemous words against Moses and God."

So Philip started speaking, and beginning with this scripture proclaimed the good news about Jesus to him.

So he was staying with them, associating openly with them in Jerusalem, speaking out boldly in the name of the Lord.

He was speaking and debating with the Greek-speaking Jews, but they were trying to kill him.

Then Peter started speaking: "I now truly understand that God does not show favoritism in dealing with people,

While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell on all those who heard the message.

for they heard them speaking in tongues and praising God. Then Peter said,

Now those who had been scattered because of the persecution that took place over Stephen went as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the message to no one but Jews.

When the meeting of the synagogue had broken up, many of the Jews and God-fearing proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who were speaking with them and were persuading them to continue in the grace of God.

So they stayed there for a considerable time, speaking out courageously for the Lord, who testified to the message of his grace, granting miraculous signs and wonders to be performed through their hands.

This man was listening to Paul as he was speaking. When Paul stared intently at him and saw he had faith to be healed,

After they stopped speaking, James replied, "Brothers, listen to me.

They went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been prevented by the Holy Spirit from speaking the message in the province of Asia.

Those who were with me saw the light, but did not understand the voice of the one who was speaking to me.

But Paul replied, "I have not lost my mind, most excellent Festus, but am speaking true and rational words.

For the king knows about these things, and I am speaking freely to him, because I cannot believe that any of these things has escaped his notice, for this was not done in a corner.

But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? The God who inflicts wrath is not unrighteous, is he? (I am speaking in human terms.)

(I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh.) For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.

Or do you not know, brothers and sisters (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law is lord over a person as long as he lives?

Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Seeing that I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry,

Or is he not surely speaking for our benefit? It was written for us, because the one plowing and threshing ought to work in hope of enjoying the harvest.

I am speaking to thoughtful people. Consider what I say.

So I want you to understand that no one speaking by the Spirit of God says, "Jesus is cursed," and no one can say, "Jesus is Lord," except by the Holy Spirit.

For the one speaking in a tongue does not speak to people but to God, for no one understands; he is speaking mysteries by the Spirit.

Now, brothers and sisters, if I come to you speaking in tongues, how will I help you unless I speak to you with a revelation or with knowledge or prophecy or teaching?

It is the same for you. If you do not speak clearly with your tongue, how will anyone know what is being said? For you will be speaking into the air.

And if someone sitting down receives a revelation, the person who is speaking should conclude.

So then, brothers and sisters, be eager to prophesy, and do not forbid anyone from speaking in tongues.

For we are not like so many others, hucksters who peddle the word of God for profit, but we are speaking in Christ before God as persons of sincerity, as persons sent from God.

And even if I am unskilled in speaking, yet I am certainly not so in knowledge. Indeed, we have made this plain to you in everything in every way.

(To my disgrace I must say that we were too weak for that!) But whatever anyone else dares to boast about (I am speaking foolishly), I also dare to boast about the same thing.

Have you been thinking all this time that we have been defending ourselves to you? We are speaking in Christ before God, and everything we do, dear friends, is to build you up.

since you are demanding proof that Christ is speaking through me. He is not weak toward you but is powerful among you.

speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making music in your hearts to the Lord,

This mystery is great -- but I am actually speaking with reference to Christ and the church.

because they hinder us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved. Thus they constantly fill up their measure of sins, but wrath has come upon them completely.

Elders who provide effective leadership must be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who work hard in speaking and teaching.

no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, as a dear brother. He is especially so to me, and even more so to you now, both humanly speaking and in the Lord.

For he did not put the world to come, about which we are speaking, under the control of angels.

So God again ordains a certain day, "Today," speaking through David after so long a time, as in the words quoted before, "O, that today you would listen as he speaks! Do not harden your hearts."

Take care not to refuse the one who is speaking! For if they did not escape when they refused the one who warned them on earth, how much less shall we, if we reject the one who warns from heaven?

yet was rebuked for his own transgression (a dumb donkey, speaking with a human voice, restrained the prophet's madness).

For by speaking high-sounding but empty words they are able to entice, with fleshly desires and with debauchery, people who have just escaped from those who reside in error.

speaking of these things in all his letters. Some things in these letters are hard to understand, things the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they also do to the rest of the scriptures.

I turned to see whose voice was speaking to me, and when I did so, I saw seven golden lampstands,

After these things I looked, and there was a door standing open in heaven! And the first voice I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet said: "Come up here so that I can show you what must happen after these things."

The beast was given a mouth speaking proud words and blasphemies, and he was permitted to exercise ruling authority for forty-two months.

Then I saw another beast coming up from the earth. He had two horns like a lamb, but was speaking like a dragon.