'Speaking' in the Bible

"You--who are you?" they asked. "How is it that I am speaking to you at all?" replied Jesus.

They did not know He was speaking to them about the Father.

As he is speaking these things, many believed in him;

{Why} do you not understand my way of speaking? Because you are not able to listen to my message.

and ye have not known Him, and I have known Him, and if I say that I have not known Him, I shall be like you -- speaking falsely; but I have known Him, and His word I keep;

After thus speaking, He spat on the ground, and then, kneading the dust and spittle into clay, He smeared the clay over the man's eyes and said to him,

Jesus answered, “You have seen Him; in fact, He is the One speaking with you.”

This similitude spake Jesus to them, and they knew not what the things were that he was speaking to them;

The Jews answered him, saying, 'For a good work we do not stone thee, but for evil speaking, and because thou, being a man, dost make thyself God.'

Jesus, however, was speaking about his death, but they thought He was speaking about natural sleep.

After speaking thus, He called out in a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out."

So they were looking for Jesus, and were speaking with one another [while] standing in the temple [courts], "What do you think? That he will not come to the feast?"

I’m not speaking about all of you; I know those I have chosen. But the Scripture must be fulfilled: The one who eats My bread has raised his heel against Me.

After speaking thus Jesus was troubled in spirit and said with deep earnestness, "In most solemn truth I tell you that one of you will betray me."

The disciples started looking at one another—uncertain which one He was speaking about.

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

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

“Ah!” His disciples said. “Now You’re speaking plainly and not using any figurative language.

Pilate therefore said to him, "Aren't you speaking to me? Don't you know that I have power to release you, and have power to crucify you?"

While she was speaking, she turned round and saw Jesus standing there, but did not recognize Him.

This He said to indicate the kind of death by which that disciple would bring glory to God; and after speaking thus He said to him, "Follow me."

To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:

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

And they were astounded and amazed, saying, “Look, aren’t all these who are speaking Galileans?

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

Cretans and Arabs—we hear them speaking the magnificent acts of God in our own languages.”

And Peter solemnly testified and continued to admonish and urge them with many more words, saying, “Be saved from this crooked and unjust generation!”

Now as they were speaking to the people, the priests, the commander of the temple police, and the Sadducees confronted them,

However, so this does not spread any further among the people, let’s threaten them against speaking to anyone in this name again.”

So they recalled the Apostles, and ordered them altogether to give up speaking or teaching in the name of Jesus.

for we are unable to stop speaking about what we have seen and heard.”

And they having prayed, the place was shaken in which they were gathered together, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and were speaking the word of God with freedom,

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.

Then they persuaded some men to say, “We heard him speaking blasphemous words against Moses and God!”

They also presented false witnesses who said, “This man does not stop speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.

'This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness, with the messenger who is speaking to him in the mount Sinai, and with our fathers who did receive the living oracles to give to us;

Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as he had appointed, speaking unto Moses, that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seen.

"Pray, of whom is the Prophet speaking?" inquired the eunuch; "of himself or of some one else?"

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

and Barnabas having taken him, brought him unto the apostles, and did declare to them how in the way he saw the Lord, and that he spake to him, and how in Damascus he was speaking boldly in the name of Jesus.

Saul was coming and going with them in Jerusalem, speaking boldly in the name of the Lord.

and speaking boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus, he was both speaking and disputing with the Hellenists, and they were taking in hand to kill him,

And when the messenger who is speaking to Cornelius went away, having called two of his domestics, and a pious soldier of those waiting on him continually,

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 came down on all those who heard the message.

For they heard them speaking in other languages and declaring the greatness of God.Then Peter responded,

But Peter began speaking and proceeded to explain to them in orderly sequence, saying,

"But a voice answered, speaking a second time from the sky, "'What God has purified, you must not regard as unholy.'

Those who had been scattered as a result of the persecution that started because of Stephen made their way as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the message to no one except Jews.

But there were some of them, Cypriot and Cyrenian men, who came to Antioch and began speaking to the Hellenists, proclaiming the good news about the Lord Jesus.

Now when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.

and the Jews having seen the multitudes, were filled with zeal, and did contradict the things spoken by Paul -- contradicting and speaking evil.

And speaking boldly, Paul and Barnabas said, 'To you it was necessary that first the word of God be spoken, and seeing ye do thrust it away, and do not judge yourselves worthy of the life age-during, lo, we do turn to the nations;

Long time therefore abode they speaking boldly in the Lord, which gave testimony unto the word of his grace, and granted signs and wonders to be done by their hands.

and heard Paul speaking. After observing him closely and seeing that he had faith to be healed,

they were calling also Barnabas Zeus, and Paul Hermes, since he was the leader in speaking.

After they stopped speaking, James responded: “Brothers, listen to me!

They went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia and were prevented by the Holy Spirit from speaking the message in Asia.

on the sabbath-day also we went forth outside of the city, by a river, where there used to be prayer, and having sat down, we were speaking to the women who came together,

They took him and brought him to the Areopagus, and said, “May we learn about this new teaching you’re speaking of?

and on their resisting and speaking evil, having shaken his garments, he said unto them, 'Your blood is upon your head -- I am clean; henceforth to the nations I will go on.'

Then the Lord said to Paul in a night vision, “Don’t be afraid, but keep on speaking and don’t be silent.

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.

and Paul having laid on them his hands, the Holy Spirit came upon them, they were speaking also with tongues, and prophesying,

And having gone into the synagogue, he was speaking boldly for three months, reasoning and persuading the things concerning the reign of God,

and when certain were hardened and were disbelieving, speaking evil of the way before the multitude, having departed from them, he did separate the disciples, every day reasoning in the school of a certain Tyrannus.

'For ye brought these men, who are neither temple-robbers nor speaking evil of your goddess;

When the uproar had ceased, Paul sent for the disciples; and, after speaking words of encouragement to them, he took his leave, and started for Macedonia.

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.

and a young man named Eutychus was sitting on a window sill and sank into a deep sleep as Paul kept on speaking. When he was overcome by sleep, he fell down from the third story and was picked up dead.

Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.

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

Now those who were with me saw the light, but they did not hear the voice of the One who was speaking to me.

And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.

But Paul replied, “I’m not out of my mind, most excellent Festus. On the contrary, I’m speaking words of truth and good judgment.

For the king knows about these matters. It is to him I am actually speaking boldly. For I am convinced that none of these things escapes his notice, since this was not done in a corner.

and having withdrawn, they were speaking unto one another, saying -- 'This man doth nothing worthy of death or of bonds;'

But the Jews speaking against it, I was compelled to appeal to Caesar, not as having anything to accuse my nation of.

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.)

What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather humanly speaking, has found? [Has he obtained a favored standing?]

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.

Since I am speaking to those who understand law, brothers, are you unaware that the law has authority over someone as long as he lives?

I am telling the truth in Christ, I am not lying, my conscience testifies with me [enlightened and prompted] by the Holy Spirit,

God has not cast off His People whom He knew beforehand. Or are you ignorant of what Scripture says in speaking of Elijah--how he pleaded with God against Israel, saying,

Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. In view of the fact that I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry,

that by Him you were enriched in everything—in all speech and all knowledge.

I am not speaking these things according to human judgment, am I? Or does not the Law also say these things?

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.

I am speaking as to wise people. Judge for yourselves what I say.

Now I am not speaking about your own conscience, but the [conscience] of the other [person]. For why [is] my freedom judged by another's conscience?

Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.

When I was a babe, as a babe I was speaking, as a babe I was thinking, as a babe I was reasoning, and when I have become a man, I have made useless the things of the babe;

For the person who speaks in another language is not speaking to men but to God, since no one understands him; however, he speaks mysteries in the Spirit.

he who is speaking in an unknown tongue, himself doth edify, and he who is prophesying, an assembly doth edify;

and I wish you all to speak with tongues, and more that ye may prophecy, for greater is he who is prophesying than he who is speaking with tongues, except one may interpret, that the assembly may receive edification.

Now, brethren, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by doctrine?

In the same way, unless you use your tongue for intelligible speech, how will what is spoken be known? For you will be speaking into the air.

if, then, I do not know the power of the voice, I shall be to him who is speaking a foreigner, and he who is speaking, is to me a foreigner;

wherefore he who is speaking in an unknown tongue -- let him pray that he may interpret;