'Asking' in the Bible

All of them continued to be stunned and puzzled, and they kept asking one another, "What can this mean?"

They made Peter and John stand in front of them and began asking, "By what power or by what name did you do this?"

and asking Festus to have Paul brought to Jerusalem as a favor. They were laying an ambush to kill him on the road.

"All of us fell to the ground, and I heard a voice asking me in the Hebrew language, "Saul! Saul! Why are you persecuting me? It is hurting you to keep on kicking against the cattle prods.'