Abraham fathered Isaac,
Isaac fathered Jacob,
Jacob fathered Judah and his brothers,

Don’t be like them, because your Father knows the things you need before you ask Him.

If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!

I tell you that many will come from east and west, and recline at the table with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven.

So he promised with an oath to give her whatever she might ask.

“Why do you ask Me about what is good?” He said to him. “There is only One who is good. If you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.”

Then the mother of Zebedee’s sons approached Him with her sons. She knelt down to ask Him for something.

And if you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.”

Jesus answered them, “I will also ask you one question, and if you answer it for Me, then I will tell you by what authority I do these things.

I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob? He is not the God of the dead, but of the living.”

The chief priests and the elders, however, persuaded the crowds to ask for Barabbas and to execute Jesus.

When Herodias’s own daughter came in and danced, she pleased Herod and his guests. The king said to the girl, “Ask me whatever you want, and I’ll give it to you.”

So he swore oaths to her: “Whatever you ask me I will give you, up to half my kingdom.”

Then she went out and said to her mother, “What should I ask for?”

“John the Baptist’s head!” she said.

But they did not understand this statement, and they were afraid to ask Him.

Then James and John, the sons of Zebedee, approached Him and said, “Teacher, we want You to do something for us if we ask You.”

Therefore I tell you, all the things you pray and ask for—believe that you have received them, and you will have them.

Jesus said to them, “I will ask you one question; then answer Me, and I will tell you by what authority I am doing these things.

Now concerning the dead being raised—haven’t you read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the burning bush, how God spoke to him: I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob?

The crowd came up and began to ask Pilate to do for them as was his custom.

son of Jacob, son of Isaac,
son of Abraham, son of Terah,
son of Nahor,

Then Jesus said to them, “I ask you: Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do what is good or to do what is evil, to save life or to destroy it?”

Give to everyone who asks you, and from one who takes your things, don’t ask for them back.

When the men reached Him, they said, “John the Baptist sent us to ask You, ‘Are You the One who is to come, or should we look for someone else?’”

But they did not understand this statement; it was concealed from them so that they could not grasp it, and they were afraid to ask Him about it.

If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?”

There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth in that place, when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but yourselves thrown out.

“But without exception they all began to make excuses. The first one said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I must go out and see it. I ask you to excuse me.’

“Another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I’m going to try them out. I ask you to excuse me.’

He answered them, “I will also ask you a question. Tell Me,

Moses even indicated in the passage about the burning bush that the dead are raised, where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.

And they no longer dared to ask Him anything.

And if I ask you, you will not answer.

This is John’s testimony when the Jews from Jerusalem sent priests and Levites to ask him, “Who are you?”

“How is it that You, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” she asked Him. For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.

Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God, and who is saying to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would ask Him, and He would give you living water.”

“But we don’t know how he now sees, and we don’t know who opened his eyes. Ask him; he’s of age. He will speak for himself.”

This is why his parents said, “He’s of age; ask him.”

Yet even now I know that whatever You ask from God, God will give You.”

Whatever you ask in My name, I will do it so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it.

And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Counselor to be with you forever.

If you remain in Me and My words remain in you, ask whatever you want and it will be done for you.

You did not choose Me, but I chose you. I appointed you that you should go out and produce fruit and that your fruit should remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.

In that day you will not ask Me anything.

“I assure you: Anything you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.

Until now you have asked for nothing in My name. Ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete.

In that day you will ask in My name. I am not telling you that I will make requests to the Father on your behalf.

“Come and have breakfast,” Jesus told them. None of the disciples dared ask Him, “Who are You?” because they knew it was the Lord.

The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified His Servant Jesus, whom you handed over and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had decided to release Him.

Then He gave him the covenant of circumcision. After this, he fathered Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day; Isaac did the same with Jacob, and Jacob with the 12 patriarchs.

I am the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob. So Moses began to tremble and did not dare to look.

The eunuch replied to Philip, “I ask you, who is the prophet saying this about—himself or another person?”

“Get up and go to the street called Straight,” the Lord said to him, “to the house of Judas, and ask for a man from Tarsus named Saul, since he is praying there.

That’s why I came without any objection when I was sent for. So I ask: Why did you send for me?”

Paul said, “I am a Jewish man from Tarsus of Cilicia, a citizen of an important city. Now I ask you, let me speak to the people.”

“The Jews,” he said, “have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down to the Sanhedrin tomorrow, as though they are going to hold a somewhat more careful inquiry about him.

Neither are they all children because they are Abraham’s descendants. On the contrary, your offspring will be traced through Isaac.

And not only that, but also Rebekah received a promise when she became pregnant by one man, our ancestor Isaac.

But I ask, “Did they not hear?” Yes, they did:

Their voice has gone out to all the earth,
and their words to the ends of the inhabited world.

But I ask, “Did Israel not understand?” First, Moses said:

I will make you jealous
of those who are not a nation;
I will make you angry by a nation
that lacks understanding.

I ask, then, has God rejected His people? Absolutely not! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.

I ask, then, have they stumbled in order to fall? Absolutely not! On the contrary, by their stumbling, salvation has come to the Gentiles to make Israel jealous.

For the Jews ask for signs and the Greeks seek wisdom,

And if they want to learn something, they should ask their own husbands at home, for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the church meeting.

Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise.

So then I ask you not to be discouraged over my afflictions on your behalf, for they are your glory.

Now to Him who is able to do above and beyond all that we ask or think according to the power that works in us—

Yes, I also ask you, true partner, to help these women who have contended for the gospel at my side, along with Clement and the rest of my coworkers whose names are in the book of life.

Finally then, brothers, we ask and encourage you in the Lord Jesus, that as you have received from us how you must walk and please God—as you are doing—do so even more.

Now we ask you, brothers, to give recognition to those who labor among you and lead you in the Lord and admonish you,

Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to Him: We ask you, brothers,

By faith he stayed as a foreigner in the land of promise, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, coheirs of the same promise.

By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac. He received the promises and he was offering his unique son,

the one it had been said about, Your seed will be traced through Isaac.

By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.

Now if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives to all generously and without criticizing, and it will be given to him.

But let him ask in faith without doubting. For the doubter is like the surging sea, driven and tossed by the wind.

Wasn’t Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar?

You desire and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. You do not have because you do not ask.

You ask and don’t receive because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your evil desires.

and can receive whatever we ask from Him because we keep His commands and do what is pleasing in His sight.

Now this is the confidence we have before Him: Whenever we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.

And if we know that He hears whatever we ask, we know that we have what we have asked Him for.

If anyone sees his brother committing a sin that does not bring death, he should ask, and God will give life to him—to those who commit sin that doesn’t bring death. There is sin that brings death. I am not saying he should pray about that.