'Telling' in the Bible

Do not be surprised that I have told you, ‘You must be born again [reborn from above—spiritually transformed, renewed, sanctified].’

Then the woman left her water jar, and went into the city and began telling the people,

“Don’t you say, ‘There are still four more months, then comes the harvest’? Listen to what I’m telling you: Open your eyes and look at the fields, for they are ready for harvest.

They kept telling the woman, "It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, because now we have heard him ourselves, and we know that he really is the Savior of the world."

“Who are You?” they questioned.“Precisely what I’ve been telling you from the very beginning,” Jesus told them.

Jesus told them, "What have I been telling you all along? I have much to say about you and to condemn you for. But the one who sent me is truthful, and what I've heard from him I declare to the world."

(They did not understand that he was telling them about his Father.)

I am telling you the things I have seen while with the Father; as for you, practice the things you have heard from the Father!"

But because I am telling you the truth, you do not believe me.

Can any of you prove me guilty of sin? If I'm telling the truth, why don't you believe me?

Jesus gave them this illustration, but they did not understand what He was telling them.

After saying this, she went and called her sister Mary privately, telling her, "The Rabbi is here and is asking for you."

So the people, who were with Him when He called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead, continued to tell others about Him.

“I am telling you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe that I am He.

But no one reclining at the table knew why He said this to him.

Since Judas kept the money-bag, some thought that Jesus was telling him, “Buy what we need for the festival,” or that he should give something to the poor.

Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me? The words I say to you I do not say on My own initiative or authority, but the Father, abiding continually in Me, does His works [His attesting miracles and acts of power].

Nevertheless, I am telling you the truth. It is for your benefit that I go away, because if I don’t go away the Counselor will not come to you. If I go, I will send Him to you.

At this point, some of his disciples asked each other, "What does he mean by telling us, "In a little while you will no longer see me, then in a little while you will see me again,' and, "because I am going to the Father'?"

In that day you will ask in My name. I am not telling you that I will make requests to the Father on your behalf.

His disciples said, "Behold, now you are speaking {plainly} and are telling [us] no figurative saying!

He who saw this has testified so that you also may believe. His testimony is true, and he knows he is telling the truth.

Mary the Magdalene cometh, telling to the disciples that she hath seen the Lord, and that these things he said to her.

So the other disciples kept telling him, “We have seen the Lord!”But he said to them, “If I don’t see the mark of the nails in His hands, put my finger into the mark of the nails, and put my hand into His side, I will never believe!”