'Replied' in the Bible

"How can this be," Mary replied, "seeing that I have no husband?"

"I am the Lord's maidservant," Mary replied; "may it be with me in accordance with your words!" And then the angel left her.

"Why is it that you have been searching for me?" He replied; "did you not know that it is my duty to be engaged upon my Father's business?"

"Do not exact more than the legal amount," he replied.

"It is written," replied Jesus, "'It is not on bread alone that a man shall live.'"

"Rabbi," replied Peter, "all night long we have worked hard and caught nothing; but at your command I will let down the nets."

But Jesus replied to them, "It is not men in good health who require a physician, but the sick.

"Can you compel the bridal party to fast," replied Jesus, "so long as they have the bridegroom among them?

In answer to his thoughts Jesus said to him, "Simon, I have a word to say to you." "Rabbi, say on," he replied.

"I suppose," replied Simon, "the one to whom he forgave most." "You have judged rightly," Jesus rejoined.

"To you," He replied, "it is granted to know the secrets of the Kingdom of God; but all others are taught by parables, in order that they may see and yet not see, and may hear and yet not understand.

"My mother and my brothers," He replied, "are these who hear God's Message and obey it."

"What is your name?" Jesus asked him. "Legion," he replied--because a great number of demons had entered into him;

"Some one has touched me," Jesus replied, "for I feel that power has gone out from me."

"You yourselves," He said, "must give them food." "We have nothing," they replied, "but five loaves and a couple of fish, unless indeed we were to go and buy provisions for all this host of people."

"John the Baptist," they replied; "but others say Elijah; and others that some one of the ancient Prophets has come back to life."

"But you," He asked, "who do you say that I am?" "God's Anointed One," replied Peter.

"O unbelieving and perverse generation!" replied Jesus; "how long shall I be with you and bear with you? Bring your son here to me."

"Rabbi," replied John, "we have seen a man making use of your name to expel demons; and we forbad him, because he does not come with us."

"Follow me," He said to another. "Master," the man replied, "allow me first to go and bury my father."

"I saw Satan fall like a lightning-flash out of Heaven," He replied.

"'Thou shalt love the Lord thy God,'" he replied, "'with thy whole heart, thy whole soul, thy whole strength, and thy whole mind; and thy fellow man as much as thyself.'"

Jesus replied, "A man was once on his way down from Jerusalem to Jericho when he fell among robbers, who after both stripping and beating him went away, leaving him half dead.

"The one who showed him pity," he replied. "Go," said Jesus, "and act in the same way."

"Martha, Martha," replied Jesus, "you are anxious and worried about a multitude of things;

"Nay rather," He replied, "they are blessed who hear God's Message and carefully keep it."

"Alas too for you expounders of the Law!" replied Jesus, "for you load men with cumbrous burdens which you yourselves will not touch with one of your fingers.

"Man," He replied, "who has constituted me a judge or arbitrator over you?"

"Who, then," replied the Lord, "is the faithful and intelligent steward whom his Master will put in charge of His household to serve out their rations at the proper times?

"Go," He replied, "and take this message to that fox: "'See, to-day and to-morrow I am driving out demons and effecting cures, and on the third day I finish my course.'

"A man once gave a great dinner," replied Jesus, "to which he invited a large number of guests.

"'Go out,' replied the master, 'to the high roads and hedge-rows, and compel the people to come in, so that my house may be filled.

"'Your brother has come,' he replied; 'and your father has had the fat calf killed, because he has got him home safe and sound.'

"'All these years,' replied the son, 'I have been slaving for you, and I have never at any time disobeyed any of your orders, and yet you have never given me so much as a kid, for me to enjoy myself with my friends;

"'A hundred firkins of oil,' he replied. "'Here is your account,' said the steward: 'sit down quickly and change it into fifty firkins.'

"'They have Moses and the Prophets,' replied Abraham; 'let them hear them.'

"'If they are deaf to Moses and the Prophets,' replied Abraham, 'they would not be led to believe even if some one should rise from the dead.'"

"If your faith," replied the Lord, "is like a mustard seed, you might command this black-mulberry-tree, 'Tear up your roots and plant yourself in the sea,' and instantly it would obey you.

"Where, Master?" they inquired. "Where the dead body is," He replied, "there also will the vultures flock together."

"Why do you call me good?" replied Jesus; "there is no one good but One, namely God.

"All of those," he replied, "I have kept from my youth."

"Things impossible with man," He replied, "are possible with God."

"I solemnly tell you," replied Jesus, "that there is no one who has left house or wife, or brothers or parents or children, for the sake of God's Kingdom,

"What shall I do for you?" "Sir," he replied, "let me recover my sight."

Turning towards him, Jesus replied, "To-day salvation has come to this house, seeing that he too is a son of Abraham.

"'Well done, good servant,' he replied; 'because you have been faithful in a very small matter, be in authority over ten towns.'

"'By your own words,' he replied, 'I will judge you, you bad servant. You knew me to be a severe man, taking up what I did not lay down, and reaping what I did not sow:

and they replied, "The Master needs it."

"I tell you," He replied, "that if *they* became silent, the very stones would cry out."

But He saw through their knavery and replied,

"Pay therefore," He replied, "what is Caesar's to Caesar--and what is God's to God."

"The men of this age," replied Jesus, "marry, and the women are given in marriage.

Then some of the Scribes replied, "Rabbi, you have spoken well."

"See to it," He replied, "that you are not misled; for many will come assuming my name and professing, 'I am He,' or saying, 'The time is close at hand.' Do not go and follow them.

"You will no sooner have entered the city," He replied, "than you will meet a man carrying a pitcher of water. Follow him into the house to which he goes,

"Master," replied Peter, "with you I am ready to go both to prison and to death."

Then He asked them, "When I sent you out without purse or bag or shoes, was there anything you needed?" "No, nothing," they replied.

"Master, here are two swords," they exclaimed. "That is enough," He replied.

"Man, I don't know what you mean," replied Peter. No sooner had he spoken than a cock crowed.

"Are you the Christ? Tell us." "If I tell you," He replied, "you will certainly not believe;

Then Pilate asked Him, "You, then, are the King of the Jews?" "It is as you say," He replied.

"I tell you in solemn truth," replied Jesus, "that this very day you shall be with me in Paradise."

"O dull-witted men," He replied, "with minds so slow to believe all that the Prophets have spoken!