sayest

But he denied, saying, "I neither know nor understand what thou sayest," and he went out into the porch; and the cock crew.

Or how sayest thou to thy brother: Let me cast the mote out of thy eye; and behold a beam is in thy own eye?

Here are the three strangers who, as thou sayest, opposed themselves to Zelus, the son of Coryon thy master.

“If thou sayest more, I will have thee scourged as well as killed,” Coryon cried, in growing rage.

He tries first to pass the question off with a show of ignorance or indifference: "I know not what thou sayest."