Have not I the right to do as I choose with what is mine? Are you envious because I am liberal?'

But the Chief Priests and the Councillors persuaded the crowds to ask for Barabbas, and to kill Jesus.

And his mother and his brothers came, and stood outside, and sent to ask him to come to them.

So, when the crowd went up and began to ask Pilate to follow his usual custom,

Joseph from Ramah, a Councillor of good position, who was himself living in expectation of the Kingdom of God, came and ventured to go in to see Pilate, and to ask for the body of Jesus.

So he summoned two of them, and sent them to the Master to ask--"Are you 'The Coming One,' or are we to look for some one else?"

When these men found Jesus, they said: "John the Baptist has sent us to you to ask--'Are you 'The Coming One,' or are we to look for somebody else?'"

And he began to ask himself 'What shall I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?

They all with one accord began to ask to be excused. The first man said to the servant 'I have bought a field and am obliged to go and look at it. I must ask you to consider me excused.'

When the Jews sent some Priests and Levites to John from Jerusalem, to ask--"Who are you?", his statement was this:

But he is coming that the world may see that I love the Father, and that I do as the Father commanded me. Come, let us be going.

Jesus saw that they were wanting to ask him a question, and said: "Are you trying to find out from one another what I meant by saying 'In a little while you will not see me; and then in a little while you will see me indeed'?

And Jesus said to them: "Come and breakfast." Not one of the disciples ventured to ask him who he was, knowing that it was the Master.

One day, as Peter and John were going up into the Temple Courts for the three o'clock Prayers, a man, who had been lame from his birth, was being carried by.

One day, as we were on our way to the Place of Prayer, we were met by a girl possessed by a divining spirit, who made large profits for her masters by fortune-telling.

"The Jews have agreed," answered the lad, "to ask you to bring Paul down before the Council to-morrow, on the plea of your making further inquiry into his case.