'Telling' in the Bible

“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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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!”