'Asking' in the Bible

Nicodemus said to Him, “How can these things be possible?”

And in the meanwhile his disciples were asking him, saying, 'Rabbi, eat;'

When, then, the Samaritans came unto him, they were asking him to remain with them, and he remained there two days;

he, having heard that Jesus is come out of Judea to Galilee, went away unto him, and was asking him that he may come down and may heal his son, for he was about to die.

They kept saying, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How does He now [have the arrogance to] say, ‘I have come down out of heaven’?”

Then the Jewish leaders debated angrily with each other, asking, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"

The Jewish leaders kept looking for him at the festival, asking, "Where is that man?"

(Now they were asking this in an attempt to trap him, so that they could bring charges against him.) Jesus bent down and wrote on the ground with his finger.

So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.

Then they began asking him, "Who is your father?" Jesus answered, "You do not know either me or my Father. If you knew me you would know my Father too."

So the Jewish leaders were asking, "He isn't going to kill himself, is he? Is that why he said, "You cannot come where I'm going'?"

His neighbours, therefore, and the other people to whom he had been a familiar object because he was a beggar, began asking, "Is not this the man who used to sit and beg?"

They therefore were asking him, "How were your eyes opened?"

Again, therefore, the Pharisees also were asking him how he received sight, and he said to them, 'Clay he did put upon my eyes, and I did wash -- and I see.'

So the Jews surrounded Him and began saying to Him, “How long are You going to keep us in suspense? If You are [really] the Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed), tell us so plainly and openly.”

And when she had said this, Martha went and called her sister Mary, saying privately, "The Teacher is here and is asking for you."

They were looking for Jesus and asking one another as they stood in the temple complex: “What do you think? He won’t come to the festival, will He?”

these then came near to Philip, who is from Bethsaida of Galilee, and were asking him, saying, 'Sir, we wish to see Jesus;'

But now I am going to the one who sent me, and not one of you is asking me, 'Where are you going?'

Jesus knew they wanted to question Him, so He said to them, “Are you asking one another about what I said, ‘A little while and you will not see Me; again a little while and you will see Me’?

So far you haven't asked for anything in my name. Keep asking and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete."

"I am asking on their behalf. I am not asking on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those you gave me, because they are yours.

I'm not asking you to take them out of the world but to protect them from the evil one.

Why are you asking me? Ask those who heard what I have said to them! Behold, these [people] know what I said."

Upon His saying this, one of the officers standing by struck Him with his open hand, asking Him as he did so, "Is that the way you answer the High Priest?"

But Simon Peter remained standing and warming himself, and this led to their asking him, "Are you also one of his disciples?" He denied it, and said, "No, I am not."

Jesus answered, “Are you asking this on your own, or have others told you about Me?”