'Maintained' in the Bible

But the Pharisees maintained, "It is by the power of the Prince of the demons that he drives out the demons."

After an interval of about an hour some one else stoutly maintained: "Certainly this fellow also was with him, for in fact he is a Galilaean."

"You are mad," they said. But she strenuously maintained that it was true. "It is his guardian angel," they said.

But they quarrelled with him about certain matters connected with their own religion, and about one Jesus who had died, but--so Paul persistently maintained--is now alive.