'Answer' in the Bible

But he didn't answer her at all. Then his disciples came up and kept urging him, "Send her away, because she keeps on screaming as she follows us."

Jesus answered them, "I, too, will ask you one question. If you answer it for me, I will also tell you by what authority I am doing these things.

No one could answer him at all, and from that day on no one dared to ask him another question.

The king will answer them, "I tell all of you with certainty, since you did it for one of the least important of these brothers of mine, you did it for me.'

At this, the high priest stood up and asked Jesus, "Don't you have any answer to what these men are testifying against you?"

Jesus told them, "I'll ask you one question. Answer me, and then I'll tell you by what authority I'm doing these things.

Was John's authority to baptize from heaven or from humans? Answer me."

Then the high priest stood up before them and asked Jesus, "Don't you have any answer to what these men are testifying against you?"

But he kept silent and didn't answer at all. The high priest asked him again, "Are you the Messiah, the Son of the Blessed One?"

So Pilate asked him again, "Don't you have any answer? Look how many accusations they're bringing against you!"

After the homeowner gets up and closes the door, you can stand outside, knock on the door, and say again and again, "Lord, open the door for us!' But he will answer you, "I don't know where you come from.'

So they couldn't catch him before the people in what he said. Amazed at his answer, they became silent.

Then some of the scribes replied, "Teacher, you have given a fine answer."

But he told them, "If I tell you, you won't believe me, and if I ask you a question, you won't answer me.

So he continued to question him for a long time, but Jesus gave him no answer at all.

"Who are you?" they asked him. "We must give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?"

When he said this, one of the officers standing nearby slapped Jesus on the face and demanded, "Is that any way to answer the high priest?"

Returning to his headquarters, he asked Jesus, "Where are you from?" But Jesus did not answer him.

When he knocked at the outer gate, a servant girl named Rhoda came to answer it.

When slandered, we answer with kind words. Even now we have become the filth of the world, the scum of the universe.

We are not recommending ourselves to you again but are giving you a reason to be proud of us, so that you can answer those who are proud of outward things rather than inward character.

Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer everyone.