'Silence' in the Bible
But the Pharisees, having heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, were gathered together.
And awaking up he rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, Silence; be mute. And the wind fell, and there was a great calm.
And as the voice was heard Jesus was found alone: and they kept silence, and told no one in those days any of the things they had seen.
And all the multitude kept silence and listened to Barnabas and Paul relating all the signs and wonders which God had wrought among the nations by them.
And when he had allowed him, Paul, standing on the stairs, beckoned with his hand to the people; and a great silence having been made, he addressed them in the Hebrew tongue, saying,
Now to him that is able to establish you, according to my glad tidings and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, as to which silence has been kept in the times of the ages,
Because so is the will of God, that by well-doing ye put to silence the ignorance of senseless men;
And when it opened the seventh seal, there was silence in the heaven about half an hour.