'Answered' in the Bible

But Peter and John answered them, “Whether it’s right in the sight of God for us to listen to you rather than to God, you decide;

“Lord,” Ananias answered, “I have heard from many people about this man, how much harm he has done to Your saints in Jerusalem.

But a voice answered from heaven a second time, ‘What God has made clean, you must not call common.’

The evil spirit answered them, “I know Jesus, and I recognize Paul—but who are you?”

“I answered, ‘Who are You, Lord?’“He said to me, ‘I am Jesus the Nazarene, the One you are persecuting!’

However, Festus answered that Paul should be kept at Caesarea, and that he himself was about to go there shortly.

I answered them that it’s not the Romans’ custom to give any man up before the accused confronts the accusers face to face and has an opportunity to give a defense concerning the charges.