21 Bible Verses about Questioning Christ

As soon as He was alone, those who were around Him, together with the twelve [disciples], began asking Him about [the interpretation of] the parables.

When Jesus had left the crowd and gone into the house, His disciples asked Him about the parable.

Now His disciples began asking Him what this parable meant.

Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and asked, “Why could we not drive it out?”

When He had gone indoors, His disciples began asking Him privately, “Why were we unable to drive it out?”

As He was sitting on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked Him privately,

A man was there whose hand was withered. And they asked Jesus, “Is it lawful and permissible to heal on the Sabbath?”—they asked this so that they might accuse Him and bring charges into court.

Jesus answered, “Why are you asking Me about what is [essentially] good? There is only One who is [essentially] good; but if you wish to enter into eternal life, keep the commandments.”

On that day some Sadducees, who say that there is no resurrection [of the dead], came to Him and asked Him a question,

Some Sadducees (who say that there is no resurrection) came to Him, and began questioning Him, saying,

and they questioned Him, saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us [a law that] if a man’s brother dies, leaving a wife and no children, his brother should marry the wife and raise children for his brother.

In the house the disciples began questioning Him again about this.

Pharisees came to Jesus to test Him [intending to trick Him into saying something wrong], and asked Him, “Is it lawful [according to Scripture] for a man to divorce his wife and send her away?”

Now having been asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, He replied, “The kingdom of God is not coming with signs to be observed or with a visible display;

One of them, a lawyer [an expert in Mosaic Law], asked Jesus a question, to test Him:

When He left there, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be very hostile [toward Him] and to interrogate Him on many subjects,

Then one of the scribes [an expert in Mosaic Law] came up and listened to them arguing [with one another], and noticing that Jesus answered them well, asked Him, “Which commandment is first and most important of all?”

So Pilate asked Him, “Are You the King of the Jews?” And He answered him, “It is just as you say.”

However, when they persisted in questioning Him, He straightened up and said, “He who is without [any] sin among you, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.”

Jesus knew that they wanted to ask Him, so He said to them, “Are you wondering among yourselves about what I meant when I said, ‘A little while, and you will not see Me, and again a little while, and you will see Me’?

So when they had come together, they asked Him repeatedly, “Lord, are You at this time reestablishing the kingdom and restoring it to Israel?”