'Trying' in the Bible

He was trying to see who Jesus was, and couldn't because of the crowd, because he was short.

The disciples told him, "Rabbi, the Jews were just trying to stone you, and are you going there again?"

As they were trying to kill him, news came up to the commanding officer of the regiment that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.

Agrippa said to Paul, "With a little persuasion are you trying to make me a Christian?"

As the sailors were trying to flee out of the ship, and had lowered the boat into the sea, pretending that they would lay out anchors from the bow,