'Insisted' in the Bible
Jesus immediately insisted that His disciples get into the boat and go ahead [of Him] to the other side to Bethsaida, while He was dismissing the crowd.
But Peter insisted emphatically, "Even if I must die with you, I will never deny you." And all of them said the same thing.
And after about an hour still another insisted, "Certainly this man was with him, because he too is a Galilean."
But they insisted, saying, He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judaea, beginning from Galilee even on to here.
But they urgently insisted, demanding with frantic outcries that He should be crucified; and their clamour prevailed.
But they urged Him [not to go on], saying, “Stay with us, because it is almost evening, and the day has just about ended.” So He went inside to stay with them.
They said to her, "You are crazy!" But she insisted that it was so. They said, "It is his angel."
but Paul insisted that they should not take along this one who had left them in Pamphylia and had not accompanied them in the work.
{Although we could have insisted on our own importance} as apostles of Christ, yet we became infants in your midst, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.