Lexicon :: Strong's G3954 - parrēsia

He spoke openly about this. Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him.

“For no one does anything in secret while he’s seeking public recognition. If you do these things, show yourself to the world.”

Still, nobody was talking publicly about him for fear of the Jews.

“Yet, look, he’s speaking publicly and they’re saying nothing to him. Can it be true that the authorities know he is the Messiah?

The Jews surrounded him and asked, “How long are you going to keep us in suspense?[fn] If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly.”[fn]

So Jesus then told them plainly, “Lazarus has died.

Jesus therefore no longer walked openly among the Jews but departed from there to the countryside near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim, and he stayed there with the disciples.

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

His disciples said, “Look, now you’re speaking plainly and not using any figurative language.

“I have spoken openly to the world,” Jesus answered him. “I have always taught in the synagogue and in the temple, where all the Jews gather, and I haven’t spoken anything in secret.

“Brothers and sisters, I can confidently speak to you about the patriarch David: He is both dead and buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.

When they observed the boldness of Peter and John and realized that they were uneducated and untrained men, they were amazed and recognized that they had been with Jesus.

“And now, Lord, consider their threats, and grant that your servants may speak your word with all boldness,

When they had prayed, the place where they were assembled was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak the word of God boldly.

proclaiming the kingdom of God and teaching about the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness and without hindrance.

Since, then, we have such a hope, we act with great boldness.

I am very frank with you; I have great pride in you. I am filled with encouragement; I am overflowing with joy in all our afflictions.

In him we have boldness and confident access through faith in him.[fn]

Pray also for me, that the message may be given to me when I open my mouth to make known with boldness the mystery of the gospel.

My eager expectation and hope is that I will not be ashamed about anything, but that now as always, with all courage, Christ will be highly honored in my body, whether by life or by death.

He disarmed the rulers and authorities and disgraced them publicly; he triumphed over them in him.[fn]

For those who have served well as deacons acquire a good standing for themselves and great boldness in the faith that is in Christ Jesus.

For this reason, although I have great boldness in Christ to command you to do what is right,

But Christ was faithful as a Son over his household. And we are that household if we hold on to our confidence and the hope in which we boast.[fn]

Therefore, let us approach the throne of grace with boldness, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in time of need.

Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have boldness to enter the sanctuary through the blood of Jesus ​— ​

So don’t throw away your confidence, which has a great reward.

So now, little children, remain in him so that when he appears we may have confidence and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

Dear friends, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have confidence before God

In this, love is made complete with us so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment, because as he is, so also are we in this world.

This is the confidence we have before him: If we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.