'Asked' in the Bible

They asked, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up toward heaven? This same Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you saw him go up into heaven."

Stunned and amazed, they asked, "All of these people who are speaking are Galileans, aren't they?

When the crowd that had gathered heard this, they were pierced to the heart. They asked Peter and the other apostles, "Brothers, what should we do?"

When he saw that Peter and John were about to go into the Temple, he asked them to give him something.

You rejected the Holy and Righteous One and asked to have a murderer released to you,

Peter asked, "Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart so that you should lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back some of the money you got for the land?

So Peter asked her, "Tell me, did you sell the land for that price?" She answered, "Yes, that was the price."

"How could you have agreed together to test the Spirit of the Lord?" Peter asked her. "Listen! The feet of the men who buried your husband are at the door, and these men will carry you outside as well."

Then the high priest asked, "Is this true?"

He found favor with God and asked to design a dwelling for the house of Jacob,

So Philip ran up to it and heard him reading the prophet Isaiah out loud. Philip asked, "Do you understand what you're reading?"

The eunuch asked Philip, "I ask you, who is the prophet talking about? Himself? Or someone else?"

He asked him for letters to take with him to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any men or women belonging to the Way, he might bring them in chains to Jerusalem.

He asked, "Who are you, Lord?"

He stared at the angel in terror and asked, "What is it, Lord?"

While Peter was still at a loss to know what the vision he had seen could mean, the men sent by Cornelius asked for Simon's house and went to the gate.

They called out and asked if Simon who was called Peter was staying there.

So Peter ordered them to be baptized in the name of Jesus the Messiah. Then they asked him to stay there for several days.

Now Herod had been in a violent quarrel with the people of Tyre and Sidon. So they came to him as a group. After they had won over Blastus, who oversaw security for the king's sleeping quarters, they asked for a peace agreement because their country depended on the king's country for food.

After the reading of the Law and the Prophets, the synagogue leaders asked them, "Brothers, if you have any message of encouragement for the people, you may speak."

Although they found no reason to sentence him to death, they asked Pilate to have him executed.

The jailer asked for torches and rushed inside. Trembling as he knelt in front of Paul and Silas,

he took them outside and asked, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?"

So the magistrates came, apologized to them, and escorted them out. Then they asked them to leave the city.

Some Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also debated with him. Some asked, "What is this blabbermouth trying to say?" while others said, "He seems to be preaching about foreign gods." This was because Paul was telling the good news about Jesus and the resurrection.

Then they took him, brought him before the Areopagus, and asked, "May we know what this new teaching of yours is?

They asked him to stay longer, but he refused.

and asked them, "Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?" They answered him, "No, we haven't even heard that there is a Holy Spirit."

He then asked, "Then into what were you baptized?" They answered, "Into John's baptism."

Then the tribune came up, grabbed Paul, and ordered him to be tied up with two chains. He then asked who Paul was and what he had done.

Just as Paul was about to be taken into the barracks, he asked the tribune, "May I say something to you?"

The tribune asked, "Oh, do you speak Greek? You're not the Egyptian who started a revolt some time ago and led 4,000 assassins into the desert, are you?"

"Then I asked, "What am I to do, Lord?'

But when they had tied him up with the straps, Paul asked the centurion who was standing there, "Is it legal for you to whip a Roman citizen who hasn't been condemned?"

So the tribune went and asked Paul, "Tell me, are you a Roman citizen?" "Yes," he said.

The men standing near him asked, "Do you mean to insult God's high priest?"

So the centurion took him, brought him to the tribune, and said, "The prisoner Paul called me and asked me to bring this young man to you. He has something to tell you."

The tribune took him by the hand, stepped aside to be alone with him, and asked, "What have you got to tell me?"

After reading the letter, the governor asked which province Paul was from. On learning that he was from Cilicia,

Then Festus, wanting to do the Jewish leaders a favor, asked Paul, "Are you willing to go up to Jerusalem to be tried there before me on these charges?"

When I went to Jerusalem, the high priests and the Jewish elders informed me about him and asked me to condemn him.

I was puzzled how I should investigate such matters, so I asked if he would like to go to Jerusalem and be tried there for these things.

But Paul appealed his case and asked to be held in prison until the decision of his Majesty. So I ordered him to be held in custody until I could send him to the emperor."

"I asked, "Who are you, Lord?'

Agrippa asked Paul, "Can you so quickly persuade me to become a Christian?"

That's why I asked to see you and speak with you, since it is for the hope of Israel that I'm wearing this chain."