'Saying' in the Bible

Jesus replied, "Woman, why are you saying this to me? My time has not yet come."

So after he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the scripture and the saying that Jesus had spoken.

For in this instance the saying is true, 'One sows and another reaps.'

Then many of his disciples, when they heard these things, said, "This is a difficult saying! Who can understand it?"

There was a lot of grumbling about him among the crowds. Some were saying, "He is a good man," but others, "He deceives the common people."

Yet here he is, speaking publicly, and they are saying nothing to him. Do the rulers really know that this man is the Christ?

What did he mean by saying, 'You will look for me but will not find me, and where I am you cannot come'?"

While he was saying these things, many people believed in him.

Why don't you understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot accept my teaching.

The Judeans replied, "Aren't we correct in saying that you are a Samaritan and are possessed by a demon?"

Then the neighbors and the people who had seen him previously as a beggar began saying, "Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?"

They heaped insults on him, saying, "You are his disciple! We are disciples of Moses!

Jesus told them this parable, but they did not understand what he was saying to them.

Many of them were saying, "He is possessed by a demon and has lost his mind! Why do you listen to him?"

And when she had said this, Martha went and called her sister Mary, saying privately, "The Teacher is here and is asking for you."

Thus they were looking for Jesus, and saying to one another as they stood in the temple courts, "What do you think? That he won't come to the feast?"

"What I am saying does not refer to all of you. I know the ones I have chosen. But this is to fulfill the scripture, 'The one who eats my bread has turned against me.'

Then some of his disciples said to one another, "What is the meaning of what he is saying, 'In a little while you will not see me; again after a little while, you will see me,' and, 'because I am going to the Father'?"

When Jesus had finished saying these things, he looked upward to heaven and said, "Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, so that your Son may glorify you --

But now I am coming to you, and I am saying these things in the world, so they may experience my joy completed in themselves.

Jesus replied, "Are you saying this on your own initiative, or have others told you about me?"

So the saying circulated among the brothers and sisters that this disciple was not going to die. But Jesus did not say to him that he was not going to die, but rather, "If I want him to live until I come back, what concern is that of yours?"