'Asking' in the Bible

"Keep asking, and it will be given to you. Keep searching, and you will find. Keep knocking, and the door will be opened for you.

Because everyone who keeps asking will receive, and the person who keeps searching will find, and the person who keeps knocking will have the door opened.

So if you 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 keep on asking him!

Someone told him, "Look! Your mother and your brothers are standing outside, asking to speak to you."

Jesus replied, "You don't realize what you're asking. Can you drink from the cup that I'm going to drink from?" They told him, "We can."

When he came into Jerusalem, the whole city was trembling with excitement. The people were asking, "Who is this?"

One of them, an expert in the Law, tested him by asking,

A crowd was sitting around him. They told him, "Look! Your mother and your brothers are outside asking for you."

When he had left the crowd and gone home, his disciples began asking him about the parable.

Now the woman happened to be a Greek, born in Phoenicia in Syria. She kept asking him to drive the demon out of her daughter.

Then Jesus and his disciples set out for the villages around Caesarea Philippi. On the way he was asking his disciples, "Who do people say I am?"

But Jesus told them, "You don't realize what you're asking. Can you drink from the cup that I'm going to drink from or be baptized with the baptism with which I'm going to be baptized?"

As Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives facing the Temple, Peter, James, John, and Andrew were asking him privately,

The crowds kept asking him, "What, then, should we do?"

Even some soldiers were asking him, "And what should we do?" He told them, "Never extort money from anyone by threats or blackmail, and be satisfied with your pay."

So I say to you: Keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep searching, and you will find. Keep knocking, and the door will be opened for you,

because everyone who keeps asking will receive, and the person who keeps searching will find, and the person who keeps knocking will have the door opened.

So if you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who keep asking him!"

Others, wanting to test Jesus, kept asking him for a sign from heaven.

Every single one of them began asking to be excused. The first told him, "I bought a field, and I need to go out and inspect it. Please excuse me.'

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?"

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.'

in my prayers at all times, asking that somehow by God's will I may at last succeed in coming to you.

And Isaiah boldly says, "I was found by those who were not looking for me; I was revealed to those who were not asking for me."

For this reason, since the day we heard about this, we have not stopped praying for you and asking that you may be filled with the full knowledge of God's will with respect to all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

With this in mind, we always pray for you, asking that our God might make you worthy of his calling and that through his power he might help you accomplish every good desire and faithful action.

Baptism, which is symbolized by that water, now saves you also, not by removing dirt from the body, but by asking God for a clear conscience based on the resurrection of Jesus, the Messiah,