'Telling' in the Bible

but that we should write them a letter telling them to abstain from things defiled by idols and from sexual immorality and from what has been strangled and from blood.

(All the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there used to spend their time in nothing else than telling or listening to something new.)

Paul said, "John baptized with a baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in the one who was to come after him, that is, in Jesus."

From Miletus he sent a message to Ephesus, telling the elders of the church to come to him.

They have been informed about you -- that you teach all the Jews now living among the Gentiles to abandon Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children or live according to our customs.