'Insisting' in the Bible

But they kept on insisting, saying, “He stirs up the people, teaching all over Judea, starting from Galilee even as far as this place.”

They said to her, “You are out of your mind!” But she kept insisting that it was so. They kept saying, “It is his angel.”

But Paul kept insisting that they should not take him along who had deserted them in Pamphylia and had not gone with them to the work.