'Asking' in the Bible

Then the Jewish leaders debated angrily with each other, asking, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"

The Jewish leaders kept looking for him at the festival, asking, "Where is that man?"

So the Jewish leaders were asking, "He isn't going to kill himself, is he? Is that why he said, "You cannot come where I'm going'?"

So far you haven't asked for anything in my name. Keep asking and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete."

"I am asking on their behalf. I am not asking on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those you gave me, because they are yours.

I'm not asking you to take them out of the world but to protect them from the evil one.

Jesus replied, "Are you asking this on your own initiative, or did others tell you about me?"