Luke 3:15

This is John’s testimony, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?”

The Jews therefore came around him and said to him, “How long will you hold us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.”

and said to him, “Are you he who comes, or should we look for another?”

But Jesus held his peace. The high priest answered him, “I adjure you by the living God, that you tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God.”

Elijah came near to all the people, and said, “How long will you waver between the two sides? If Yahweh is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him.” The people didn’t say a word.

But he stayed quiet, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him, “Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?”

They said therefore to him, “Who are you?” Jesus said to them, “Just what I have been saying to you from the beginning.

Are you greater than our father, Abraham, who died? The prophets died. Who do you make yourself out to be?”

His parents said these things because they feared the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if any man would confess him as Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue.

So Jesus said to them plainly then, “Lazarus is dead.

I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. But the time is coming when I will no more speak to you in figures of speech, but will tell you plainly about the Father.

But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was compelled by the Spirit, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.

Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of speech,