'Tried' in the Bible

But John tried to stop Him, saying, “I need to be baptized by You, and yet You come to me?”

Then Jesus was led by the [Holy] Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.

The people angrily tried to silence them, but they cried all the louder. "O Sir, Son of David, pity us," they said.

John said to Him, “Teacher, we saw someone driving out demons in Your name, and we tried to stop him because he wasn’t following us.”

"You should not have tried to hinder him," replied Jesus, "for there is no one who will use my name to perform a miracle and be able the next minute to speak evil of me.

They tried to seize him, but they feared the multitude; for they perceived that he spoke the parable against them. They left him, and went away.

A young man was following him, wearing only a linen cloth. They tried to arrest him,

They tried to give Him wine mixed with myrrh, but He did not take it.

Startled by his statement, she tried to figure out what his greeting meant.

for forty days, being tempted by the devil. And He ate nothing during those days, and when they ended, He was hungry.

So the Devil, having fully tried every kind of temptation on Him, left Him for a time.

When it was day, He went out and made His way to a deserted place. But the crowds were searching for Him. They came to Him and tried to keep Him from leaving them.

Just then some men came, carrying on a mat a man who was paralyzed. They tried to bring him in and set him down before Him.

John responded, “Master, we saw someone driving out demons in Your name, and we tried to stop him because he does not follow us.”

Those in front reproved him and tried to silence him; but he continued shouting, louder than ever, "Son of David, take pity on me."

The scribes and the chief priests tried to lay hands on Him that very hour, and they feared the people; for they understood that He spoke this parable against them.

Then they tried to seize Him. Yet no one laid a hand on Him because His hour had not yet come.

Again they tried to seize him, but he slipped away from them.

“Rabbi,” the disciples told Him, “just now the Jews tried to stone You, and You’re going there again?”

From then on, Pilate tried to release him, but the Jewish leaders kept shouting, "If you release this fellow, you're not a friend of Caesar! Anyone who claims to be a king is defying Caesar!"

The next day he showed up while they were fighting and tried to reconcile them peacefully, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers. Why are you mistreating each other?’

and his hearers were all amazed, and began to ask one another, "Is not this the man who in Jerusalem tried to exterminate those who called upon that Name, and came here on purpose to carry them off in chains to the High Priests?"

When he arrived in Jerusalem, he tried to associate with the disciples, but they were all afraid of him, since they did not believe he was a disciple.

But Elymas the sorcerer (this is the meaning of his name) opposed them and tried to turn the proconsul away from the faith.

But certain persons who had come down from Judaea tried to convince the brethren, saying, "Unless you are circumcised in accordance with the Mosaic custom, you cannot be saved."

When they came to Mysia, they tried to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus did not allow them.

He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath and tried to persuade both Jews and Greeks.

But some itinerant Jewish exorcists tried to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those who were possessed by evil spirits, saying, "I sternly warn you by Jesus whom Paul preaches."

Some of the crowd concluded it was because of Alexander, since the Jews had pushed him to the front. So Alexander motioned for silence and tried to make a defense before the people.

He even tried to desecrate the temple, so we apprehended him [and wanted to judge him according to our law.

Then Festus, wanting to do a favor for the Jews, replied to Paul, “Are you willing to go up to Jerusalem, there to be tried before me on these charges?”

But Paul said: “I am standing at Caesar’s tribunal, where I ought to be tried. I have done no wrong to the Jews, as even you can see very well.

Since I was at a loss in a dispute over such things, I asked him if he wished to go to Jerusalem and be tried there concerning these matters.

In all the synagogues I often tried to make them blaspheme by punishing them. I even pursued them to foreign cities since I was greatly enraged at them.

For this reason some Jews seized me in the temple and tried to put me to death.

Some sailors tried to escape from the ship; they had let down the skiff into the sea, pretending that they were going to put out anchors from the bow.

When daylight came, they tried in vain to recognise the coast. But an inlet with a sandy beach attracted their attention, and now their object was, if possible, to run the ship aground in this inlet.

and endurance, proven character (spiritual maturity); and proven character, hope and confident assurance [of eternal salvation].

Greet Apelles, the one tested and approved in Christ. Greet those who belong to the household of Aristobulus.

No trial has overtaken you that is not faced by others. And God is faithful: He will not let you be tried beyond what you are able to bear, but with the trial will also provide a way out so that you may be able to endure it.

For you have heard about my former way of life in Judaism: I persecuted God’s church to an extreme degree and tried to destroy it.

they simply kept hearing: “He who formerly persecuted us now preaches the faith he once tried to destroy.”

But we, brothers, being bereaved of you for a short season, in presence, not in heart, tried even harder to see your face with great desire,

For we wanted to come to you (I, Paul, in fact tried again and again) but Satan thwarted us.

These men must first be tested; then if they are found to be blameless and beyond reproach [in their Christian lives], let them serve as deacons.

Because He Himself [in His humanity] has suffered in being tempted, He is able to help and provide immediate assistance to those who are being tempted and exposed to suffering.

where your fathers tested Me, tried Me,and saw My works

By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son,

By faith they went through the Red Sea as if it were dry land. When the Egyptians tried to do this, they were drowned.

Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment.

they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they were tried; in the killing of the sword they died; they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins -- being destitute, afflicted, injuriously treated,

Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.

That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:

They tried to find out what era or specific time the Spirit of the Messiah in them kept referring to when he predicted the sufferings of the Messiah and the glories that would follow.

Come to Him [the risen Lord] as to a living Stone which men rejected and threw away, but which is choice and precious in the sight of God.

I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:

Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.

I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.

And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, and death and Hades (the realm of the dead) surrendered the dead who were in them; and they were judged and sentenced, every one according to their deeds.