'Argued' in the Bible

At that, the Jews argued among themselves, “How can this man give us His flesh to eat?”

When Peter went up to Jerusalem, those who stressed circumcision argued with him,

Then also, some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers argued with him. Some said, “What is this pseudo-intellectual trying to say?”Others replied, “He seems to be a preacher of foreign deities”—because he was telling the good news about Jesus and the Resurrection.

The shouting grew loud, and some of the scribes of the Pharisees’ party got up and argued vehemently: “We find nothing evil in this man. What if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him?”