'Tried' in the Bible

But John tried to stop him, saying, "I need to be baptized by you, and are you coming to me?"

John told Jesus, "Teacher, we saw someone driving out demons in your name. We tried to stop him, because he wasn't a follower like us."

They tried to give him wine mixed with myrrh, but he wouldn't accept it.

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

At daybreak he left and went to a deserted place, while the crowds kept looking for him. When they came to him, they tried to keep him from leaving them.

John said, "Master, we saw someone driving out demons in your name. We tried to stop him, because he wasn't a follower like us."

Then the Jewish leaders tried to seize him, but 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.

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 presented himself to some of them while they were fighting and tried to reconcile them. He said, "Men, you are brothers. Why should you be hurting another?'

When Saul arrived in Jerusalem, he tried to join the disciples, but they all were afraid of him because they wouldn't believe he was a disciple.

But Elymas the occult practitioner (that is the meaning of his name) continued to oppose them and tried to turn the proconsul away from the faith.

They went as far as Mysia and tried to enter Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus did not permit them,

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.

and even tried to profane the Temple, but we arrested him.

Then Festus, wanting to do the Jewish leaders a favor, asked Paul, "Are you willing to go up to Jerusalem to be tried there before me on these charges?"

But Paul said, "I am standing before the emperor's judgment seat where I ought to be tried. I haven't done anything wrong to the Jewish leaders, as you know very well.

I was puzzled how I should investigate such matters, so I asked if he would like to go to Jerusalem and be tried there for these things.

The only thing they kept hearing was this: "The man who used to persecute us is now proclaiming the faith he once tried to destroy!"

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

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.