'Asking' in the Bible

When he entered Capernaum, a centurion came to him asking for help:

While Jesus was still speaking to the crowds, his mother and brothers came and stood outside, asking to speak to him.

Jesus answered, "You don't know what you are asking! Are you able to drink the cup I am about to drink?" They said to him, "We are able."

Now a leper came to him and fell to his knees, asking for help. "If you are willing, you can make me clean," he said.

Then the Pharisees came and began to argue with Jesus, asking for a sign from heaven to test him.

But Jesus said to them, "You don't know what you are asking! Are you able to drink the cup I drink or be baptized with the baptism I experience?"

They had been asking each other, "Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance to the tomb?"

After three days they found him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.

So the crowds were asking him, "What then should we do?"

When the centurion heard about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders to him, asking him to come and heal his slave.

Others, to test him, began asking for a sign from heaven.

So when the Samaritans came to him, they began asking him to stay with them. He stayed there two days,

So the Jewish leaders were looking for him at the feast, asking, "Where is he?"

(Now they were asking this in an attempt to trap him, so that they could bring charges against him.) Jesus bent down and wrote on the ground with his finger.

When they persisted in asking him, he stood up straight and replied, "Whoever among you is guiltless may be the first to throw a stone at her."

Then they began asking him, "Who is your father?" Jesus answered, "You do not know either me or my Father. If you knew me you would know my Father too."

And when she had said this, Martha went and called her sister Mary, saying privately, "The Teacher is here and is asking for you."

But now I am going to the one who sent me, and not one of you is asking me, 'Where are you going?'

Jesus could see that they wanted to ask him about these things, so he said to them, "Are you asking each other about this -- that I said, 'In a little while you will not see me; again after a little while, you will see me'?

I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but that you keep them safe from the evil one.

Also some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were conversing with him, and some were asking, "What does this foolish babbler want to say?" Others said, "He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign gods." (They said this because he was proclaiming the good news about Jesus and the resurrection.)

When I was in Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me about him, asking for a sentence of condemnation against him.

If an unbeliever invites you to dinner and you want to go, eat whatever is served without asking questions of conscience.

For this reason we also, from the day we heard about you, have not ceased praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

Since I was confident that you would obey, I wrote to you, because I knew that you would do even more than what I am asking you to do.