'Telling' in the Bible

telling them, “Go into the village ahead of you. At once you will find a donkey tied there, and a colt with her. Untie them and bring them to Me.

while they taunted Him, saying, "Christ, prove yourself a Prophet by telling us who it was that struck you."

telling them, "You are to say, 'His disciples came at night and stole his body while we were asleep.'

telling him, “See that you say nothing to anyone; but go and show yourself to the priest, and offer what Moses prescribed for your cleansing, as a testimony to them.”

Jesus had been telling them, "A prophet is without honor only in his hometown, among his relatives, and in his own home."

John had been telling Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife!”

But he kept telling her, "First let the children be filled. It is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the puppies."

And He sent him to his home, saying, “Do not even enter the village.”

For He was teaching His disciples and telling them, “The Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of men. They will kill Him, and after He is killed, He will rise three days later.”

Many were sternly telling him to be quiet, but he kept crying out all the more, “Son of David, have mercy on me!”

Jesus stopped and said, “Call him.” So they called the blind man, telling him, “Take courage, get up! He is calling for you.”

For this reason I am telling you, whatever things you ask for in prayer [in accordance with God’s will], believe [with confident trust] that you have received them, and they will be given to you.

Then Jesus began by telling them: “Watch out that no one deceives you.

I'm telling you what I'm telling everyone: Be alert!"

He sent two of his disciples, telling them, "Go into the city, and you will meet a man carrying a jug of water. Follow him.

Some of them began to spit on him. They blindfolded him and kept hitting him with their fists and telling him, "Prophesy!" Even the servants took him and slapped him around.

But he began to invoke a curse [on himself] and to swear [an oath], “I do not know this man you are talking about!”

I'm telling you the truth there were many widows in Israel in Elijah's time, when it didn't rain for three years and six months and there was a severe famine everywhere in the land.

And He was also telling them a parable: “No one tears a piece of cloth from a new garment and puts it on an old garment; otherwise he will both tear the new, and the piece from the new will not match the old.

So I'm telling you that her sins, as many as they are, have been forgiven, and that's why she has shown such great love. But the one to whom little is forgiven loves little."

Soon afterward He was traveling from one town and village to another, preaching and telling the good news of the kingdom of God. The Twelve were with Him,

So his disciples went to him, woke him up, and kept telling him, "Master! Master! We're going to die!" He got up and rebuked the wind and the raging waves. They stopped, and there was calm.

Then Jesus told his disciples, "That's why I'm telling you to stop worrying about your life what you will eat or about your body what you will wear,

“Lord,” Peter asked, “are You telling this parable to us or to everyone?”

And there were present certain at that time, telling him about the Galileans, whose blood Pilate did mingle with their sacrifices;

And He began telling this parable: “A man had a fig tree which had been planted in his vineyard; and he came looking for fruit on it and did not find any.

But the leader of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, responded by telling the crowd, “There are six days when work should be done; therefore come on those days and be healed and not on the Sabbath day.”

Returning home, he calls together his friends and neighbors, telling them, 'Rejoice with me, because I have found my sheep that was lost.'

"I'm telling you, make friends for yourselves by means of unrighteous wealth, so that when it fails, they will welcome you into eternal homes.

Now He was telling them a parable to show that at all times they ought to pray and not to lose heart,

But the disciples understood none of these things [about the approaching death and resurrection of Jesus]. This statement was hidden from them, and they did not grasp the [meaning of the] things that were said [by Jesus].

Those who led the way were sternly telling him to be quiet; but he kept crying out all the more, “Son of David, have mercy on me!”

telling them, "Go to the village ahead of you. When you enter it, you will find a colt tied there that has never been ridden. Untie it and bring it here.

saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be a house of prayer’; but you have made it a robbers’ den.”

One day, while Jesus was teaching the people in the Temple and telling them the good news, the high priests and the scribes came with the elders

or blindfolded Him, and then challenged Him. "Prove to us," they said, "that you are a prophet, by telling us who it was that struck you."

Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the other women with them were telling the apostles these things.

and they were telling the things in the way, and how he was made known to them in the breaking of the bread,

While they were telling these things, He Himself stood in their midst and *said to them, “Peace be to you.”

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!”

After he had suffered, he had shown himself alive to them by many convincing proofs, appearing to them during a period of 40 days and telling them about the kingdom of God.

Cretans and Arabs—we all hear them speaking in our [native] tongues about the mighty works of God!”

‘And it shall be in the last days,’ says God,‘That I will pour out My Spirit upon all mankind;And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,And your young men shall see [divinely prompted] visions,And your old men shall dream [divinely prompted] dreams;

Even on My bond-servants, both men and women,I will in those days pour out My SpiritAnd they shall prophesy.

for we, on our part, cannot stop telling [people] about what we have seen and heard.”

"Go, stand in the Temple, and keep on telling the people the whole message about this life they can have."

"I'm telling you to keep away from these men for now. Leave them alone, because if this plan or movement is of human origin, it will fail.

But they did not desist from teaching every day, in the Temple or in private houses, and telling the Good News about Jesus, the Christ.

Barnabas, however, introduced Saul to the apostles, telling them how on the road Saul had seen the Lord, who had spoken to him, and how courageously he had spoken in the name of Jesus in Damascus.

and, after telling them everything, he sent them to Jaffa.

Then I also heard a voice telling me, ‘Get up, Peter; kill and eat!’

We're telling you the good news: What God promised our ancestors

"Men, why are you doing this? We are merely human beings with natures like yours. We are telling you the good news so you'll turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them.

strengthening the disciples by encouraging them to continue in the faith and by telling them, “It is necessary to pass through many troubles on our way into the kingdom of God.”

and after telling the Message at Perga they came down to Attaleia.

So, after being supplied and sent on their way by the church, they went through both Phoenicia and Samaria telling in detail the conversion of the Gentiles, and they brought great joy to all the believers.

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.

we have sent, therefore, Judas and Silas, and they by word are telling the same things.

But Paul and Barnabas remained in Antioch, teaching and, in company with many others, telling the Good News of the Lord's Message.

One day, as we were on our way to the place of prayer, a slave girl met us who claimed to be inspired and was accustomed to bring her owners large profits by telling fortunes.

Then also, some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers argued with him. Some said, “What is this pseudo-intellectual trying to say?”Others replied, “He seems to be a preacher of foreign deities”—because he was telling the good news about Jesus and the Resurrection.

Now all the Athenians and the foreigners residing there spent their time on nothing else but telling or hearing something new.

For as I was walking around and looking closely at the objects you worship, I even found an altar with this written on it: "To an unknown god.' So I am telling you about the unknown object you worship.

Now at the time when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was preaching fervently and was solemnly telling the Jews that Jesus is the Christ.

but saying farewell and telling [them], "I will return to you again [if] God wills," he set sail from Ephesus.

Paul said, “John baptized with a baptism of repentance, telling the people that they should believe in the One who would come after him, that is, in Jesus.”

You also see and hear that, not only in Ephesus, but almost all over Asia, this man Paul has won over and taken away a large crowd by telling them that gods made by human hands are not gods at all.

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

I never shrank from telling you anything that would help you nor from teaching you publicly and from house to house.

because I never shrank from telling you the whole plan of God.

So we located some disciples and stayed there for seven days. Through the Spirit, they kept telling Paul not to go to Jerusalem,

But they have been told about you that you teach all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to abandon Moses, by telling them not to circumcise their children or to walk in our customs.

and saw Him telling me, ‘Hurry and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not accept your testimony about Me!’

While they were spending many days there, Festus laid Paul’s case before the king, saying, “There is a man here who was left as a prisoner by Felix.

For God, whom I serve with my spirit in telling the good news about His Son, is my witness that I constantly mention you,

for the Spirit's Law-- telling of Life in Christ Jesus--has set me free from the Law that deals only with sin and death.

I am telling the truth because I belong to the Messiah I am not lying, and my conscience confirms it by means of the Holy Spirit.