“say.” The Greek is apokrithē (ἀποκριθῇ), technically, “answer,” but in this case he was “answering” the situation, not a question. Hendrickson (New Testament Commentary) states: “Here, as in verse 5 and often, the verb ἀποκριθῇ has a wide meaning, so that τί ἀποκριθῇ means, “what he should say,” or “what to say.”