And others, testing him, sought of him a sign from heaven.

He spoke also this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none.

And he sought to see who Jesus was; and could not for the crowd, because he was little of stature.

And he taught daily in the temple. But the chief priests and the scribes and the chief men of the people sought to destroy him,

And the chief priests and the scribes the same hour sought to lay hands on him; and they feared the people: for they perceived that he had spoken this parable against them.

And the chief priests and scribes sought how they might kill him; for they feared the people.

And he promised, and sought opportunity to betray him unto them in the absence of the multitude.

And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day.

Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.

After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.

Then the Jews sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he?

Then they sought to take him: but no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come.

Therefore they sought again to take him: but he escaped out of their hand,

His disciples said unto him, Teacher, the Jews have just sought to stone you; and go you there again?

Then sought they for Jesus, and spoke among themselves, as they stood in the temple, What think you, that he will not come to the feast?

And from there on Pilate sought to release him: but the Jews cried out, saying, If you let this man go, you are not Caesar's friend: whosoever makes himself a king speaks against Caesar.

Then the high priest rose up, and all they that were with him, (which is the sect of the Sadducees,) and were filled with indignation,

And when Herod had sought him, and found him not, he examined the guards, and commanded that they should be put to death. And he went down from Judea to Caesarea, and there abode.

But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees who believed, saying, It is needful to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.

But the Jews who believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain wicked fellows of the rabble, and gathered a company, and set all the city in an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.

For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes:

Who knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most strict sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

But we desire to hear of you what you think: for as concerning this sect, we know that everywhere it is spoken against.

Why? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumbling stone;

But Isaiah is very bold, and says, I was found of them that sought me not; I was made manifest unto them that asked not after me.

Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ.

But, when he was in Rome, he sought me out very diligently, and found me.

For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.

For you know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.