'Hearing' in the Bible

“Does our Law convict someone without first giving him a hearing and finding out what he is [accused of] doing?”

Some Pharisees who were with Him heard these things and said to Him, “Are we also blind?”

When Pilate heard this, he brought Jesus out, and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called The Pavement, but in Hebrew, Gabbatha.

Then that disciple (John) whom Jesus loved (esteemed) said to Peter, “It is the Lord!” So when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he put on his outer tunic (for he was stripped for work) and threw himself into the sea [and swam ashore].