'Asking' in the Bible

Now a leper came to him and fell to his knees, asking for help. "If you are willing, you can make me clean," he said.

A crowd was sitting around Him and told Him, “Look, Your mother, Your brothers, and Your sisters are outside asking for You.”

As soon as He was alone, His followers, along with the twelve, began asking Him about the parables.

And He was asking him, “What is your name?” And he *said to Him, “My name is Legion; for we are many.”

So the Pharisees and scribes asked Jesus, “Why do Your disciples not live their lives according to the tradition of the elders, but [instead] eat their bread with [ceremonially] unwashed hands?”

When he had left the crowd and gone home, his disciples began asking him about the parable.

Now the woman was Greek, a Syrophoenician by birth, and she kept asking Him to drive the demon out of her daughter.

And He was asking them, “How many loaves do you have?” And they said, “Seven.”

Then the Pharisees came and began to argue with Jesus, asking for a sign from heaven to test him.

Then Jesus and his disciples set out for the villages around Caesarea Philippi. On the way he was asking his disciples, "Who do people say I am?"

So they kept the matter to themselves, although frequently asking one another what was meant by the rising from the dead.

He asked the scribes, "What are you asking them?"

As He was setting out on a journey, a man ran up to Him and knelt before Him, and asked Him, “Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”

But Jesus said to them, “You don’t know what you’re asking. Are you able to drink the cup I drink or to be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with?”

As Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives facing the Temple, Peter, James, John, and Andrew were asking him privately,

They were filled with sorrow, and began asking Him, one by one, "Not I, is it?"

And at every feast he was releasing to them one prisoner, whomsoever they were asking;

The crowd went up and began asking him to do as he had been accustomed to do for them.

They had been asking each other, "Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance to the tomb?"