79 occurrences in 12 translations

'Asked' in the Bible

They were all amazed so that they asked each other, "What is this? A new teaching with authority! He even commands the unclean spirits and they obey him."

Verse ConceptsAmazingExorcismsevil, victory overDemons, Delivered FromNewnessAmazement, Of Jesus ChristAmazement, Of Christ's MiraclesChrist's DominionAuthority Of ChristWhat Is This?Christ's Ordersdoctrine

When the scribes of the Pharisees saw that He was eating with sinners and tax collectors, they asked His disciples, “Why does He eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

Verse ConceptsFaultsConfrontationComplaintsStatusTax CollectorsOpposition To Christ From ScribesPharisees Concerned About ChristWhy Does Jesus Do This?Finding Fault With Jesus

Now John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. People came and asked Him, “Why do John’s disciples and the Pharisees’ disciples fast, but Your disciples do not fast?”

Verse ConceptsAsceticism, People PracticingPharisees, Beliefs OfDisciples Of John The BaptistCharacteristics Of PhariseesWho Will FastWhy Do People Not Do This?Jesus As A Bridegroom

The Pharisees asked him, "Look! Why are they doing what is not lawful on Sabbath days?"

Verse ConceptsComplaintsRitualLegalismPharisees Concerned About ChristThe Sabbath And Christ

He asked them, "Haven't you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry and in need?

Verse ConceptsConsecrated BreadReading The Scriptures

And when he was alone, they that were about him with the twelve asked of him the parable.

Verse ConceptsTeachablenessIsolated PersonsQuestioning ChristTwelve DisciplesJesus Using Parables

He also asked, "To what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable can we use to present it?

Verse ConceptsComparingJesus Using ParablesParables Of The Kingdom

And they were terrified and asked one another, “Who then is this? Even the wind and the sea obey Him!”

Verse ConceptsConfusionWho Is Jesus?Fear Of ChristThe Sea Stilledoverwhelmed

And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.

Verse ConceptsSatanticLonelinessMany Spiritual BeingsDemonspork

As he was getting into the boat the man who had been demon-possessed asked if he could go with him.

Verse ConceptsBoatsChrist With People On EarthThose DemonisedDemonic Influence

Immediately Jesus became aware that power had gone out of him. So he turned around in the crowd and asked, "Who touched my clothes?"

Verse ConceptsPower, God's SavingOuter GarmentsTouching For HealingChrist Knowing About HimselfWho Is The Doer?energy

His disciples asked him, "You see the crowd jostling you, and yet you ask, "Who touched me?'"

Verse ConceptsPressingTouching For HealingThe Disciples WordsWho Is The Doer?

He entered the house and asked them, "Why all this confusion and crying? The child isn't dead. She's sleeping."

Verse ConceptsLast ThingsMourningSleep, And DeathDisorder Among PeopleNot DyingDeath AvertedMourning The Death Of OthersDeath Of A Child

When the Sabbath came, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were utterly amazed. "Where did this man get all these things?" they asked. "What is this wisdom that has been given to him? What great miracles are being done by his hands!

Verse ConceptsAbility, Of ChristSabbath, In NtSynagogueAmazement, Of Jesus ChristChrist's WisdomChrist TeachingOn The SabbathWhere From?Teaching Wisdom

So she went out and asked her mother, "What should I ask for?" Her mother replied, "The head of John the Baptist."

Verse ConceptsRemoving Heads

And she came in straightway with haste unto the king, and asked, saying, I will that thou give me by and by in a charger the head of John the Baptist.

Verse ConceptseagernessSuddenlyRemoving HeadsSkullsHasty ActionPots For Cooking And Eating

But he answered them, "You give them something to eat." They asked him, "Should we go and buy 200 denarii worth of bread and give it to them to eat?"

Verse ConceptsdoubtersUnbelief, And Life Of FaithWagesPeople Providing Food

And He asked them, “How many loaves do you have? Go look.”When they found out they said, “Five, and two fish.”

Verse ConceptsFive ThingsTwo Animals

And when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.

Verse ConceptsTeachablenessEntering HousesQuestioning ChristThe Disciples Words

He asked them, "Are you so ignorant? Don't you know that nothing that goes into a person from the outside can make him unclean?

Verse ConceptsExternalsEntering The MouthBeing Without UnderstandingDefilementprepping

(and the woman was a Greek, Syrophenician by race), and asked him that he would cast the demon out of her daughter.

Verse Conceptsdemons, Kinds ofBeggarsGreeksLove, And The WorldJesus Casting Out Demons

They brought to him a deaf man who had difficulty speaking, and they asked him to place his hands on him.

Verse ConceptsdisabilitiesDiseases, Kinds OfBeggarsHandsLaying On Of HandsNatural DeafnessLaying On Hands To HealSpeech Impediments

And he asked them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven.

Verse ConceptsSeven Things

They also had a few small fish; and when Jesus had blessed them [and given thanks], He ordered these [fish] to be set before them as well.

Verse ConceptsSmall CreaturesFew ThingsThanking God For FoodFish

Knowing this, Jesus asked them, "Why are you discussing the fact that you don't have any bread? Don't you understand or perceive yet? Are your hearts hardened?

Verse ConceptsFools, In Teaching Of Jesus ChristEyes, Figurative UseHardness Of HeartUnderstandingStiffnecked PeopleChrist Knowing About PeopleBeing Without UnderstandingObstinate IndividualsWhy Do Others Do This?

Then he asked them, "Don't you understand yet?"

Verse ConceptsBeing Without Understanding

Then they came to Bethsaida. They brought a blind man to Jesus and asked him to touch him.

Verse ConceptsdisabilitiesTouching For Healing

And he took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the town; and when he had spit on his eyes, and put his hands upon him, he asked him if he saw ought.

Verse ConceptsSpittingSalivaLaying On Hands To HealEyes Cared ForThe Faculty Of Sight

And Jesus went out, and his disciples, into the towns of Caesarea Philippi: and by the way he asked his disciples, saying unto them, Whom do men say that I am?

Verse ConceptsTravelChrist EnquiringWho Is Jesus?Christ Speaking To DisciplesDisciples' Movements

And he asked the scribes, What question ye with them?

Verse ConceptsDiscussions

Wherever it seizes him, it throws him down, and he foams at the mouth, grinds his teeth, and becomes rigid. So I asked Your disciples to drive it out, but they couldn’t.”

Verse Conceptsdriving outBitingTeethGnashing Of TeethThrowing PeoplePeople Casting Out DemonsConvulsionsHardnessFoamsThe Disciples ActionsUnable To Expel

And he asked his father, How long is it ago since this came unto him? And he said, Of a child.

Verse ConceptsChronic AilmentsBeing Evil From Youth

And he came to Capernaum: and being in the house he asked them, What was it that ye disputed among yourselves by the way?

Verse ConceptsRoadsChrist EnquiringDiscussions

And when he was gone forth into the way, there came one running, and kneeled to him, and asked him, Good Master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?

Verse ConceptseagernessBowingKneelingChrist, Names ForParticular JourneysIndividuals RunningSetting OutSeeking LifeGood PeopleActivity BegunDoing God's Works

The disciples were utterly amazed and asked one another, "Then who can be saved?"

Verse ConceptsAmazement, Of Jesus ChristNo One Available

“What do you want Me to do for you?” He asked them.

Verse ConceptsRight Desires

They asked him, "Let us sit in your glory, one on your right and one on your left."

Verse ConceptsSittingSelfishness, Examples OfSelf Exaltation

Then Jesus asked him, "What do you want me to do for you?" The blind man told him, "Rabbouni, I want to see again."

Verse ConceptsRabbiReceiving SightRight DesiresBlindness

some men standing there asked them, "What are you doing untying that colt?"

Verse ConceptsWhat Do You Do?

They came again to Jerusalem. As He was walking in the temple complex, the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders came

Verse ConceptsChrist In The Temple

and asked him, "By what authority are you doing these things, and who gave you this authority to do them?"

Verse ConceptsGod Appointing His Son

When they had come, they asked him, "Teacher, we know that you are honest, and don't defer to anyone; for you aren't partial to anyone, but truly teach the way of God. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?

Verse ConceptsFlatteryKnowing God's WaysHonestyTributesWay, TheCaesarPerforming The TruthChrist TeachingTeaching The Way Of GodGod's Word Is TrueTelling The Truthattentiontaxes

Should we pay [the tax] or should we not pay?” But knowing their hypocrisy, He asked them, “Why are you testing Me? Bring Me a coin (denarius) to look at.”

Verse ConceptsExamples Of DeceitMoney, Uses OfTrapTrickeryCaesarDiscernment of JesusTesting ChristChrist Knowing About PeopleShowing HypocrisyTax To Be PaidHypocrisy

So they brought one. “Whose image and inscription is this?” He asked them.“Caesar’s,” they said.

Verse ConceptsPortraitsInscriptionsNature Of KingsSelf Imageimagetaxes

Then come unto him the Sadducees, which say there is no resurrection; and they asked him, saying,

Verse ConceptsHeresiesJudaismPrejudiceResurrection, Of The DeadQuestioning ChristAre The Dead Raised?denial

And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, Which is the first commandment of all?

Verse ConceptsBeing FirstQuestioning ChristAnsweringFulfilling The LawGreat ThingsMoralityimportance

So Jesus asked this question as He taught in the temple complex, “How can the scribes say that the Messiah is the Son of David?

Verse ConceptsJesus As Son Of DavidChrist TeachingChrist In The TempleChrist's Origin

And as he sat upon the mount of Olives over against the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him privately,

Verse ConceptsAndrewPrivacyPeople Sitting DownQuestioning Christ

Irritated, some who were there asked one another, "Why was the perfume wasted like this?

Verse ConceptsFrugalityUnnamed People Angry With Others

On the first day of Unleavened Bread, when they sacrifice the Passover lamb, His disciples asked Him, “Where do You want us to go and prepare the Passover so You may eat it?”

Verse ConceptsPassover lambTypesThe Disciples Words

They began to be very sad and asked him, one after the other, "Surely I am not the one, am I?"

Verse ConceptsSuffering, Emotional Aspects OfUnhappinessWho Is The One?Other Sad People

While they were eating, Jesus took bread and blessed it [giving thanks and praise], and He broke it, and gave it to them and said, “Take it. This is My body.”

Verse ConceptsBody Of Christ, SymbolizedLord's SupperSacramentsEating Christ's BodyBreaking Of BreadThanking God For FoodThe Lord's SupperTable Grace

Then He came and found them sleeping. “Simon, are you sleeping?” He asked Peter. “Couldn’t you stay awake one hour?

Verse ConceptsHourPrayerlessnessSleep, PhysicalUnreliabilityOne Hour

He came back a third time. "Are you still sleeping and resting?" he asked. "Enough of that! The time has come. Look! The Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of sinners.

Verse ConceptsGod, Purpose OfHourHanding Over ChristActing Three TimesTimes Of The ChristMore Than Enough

Jesus asked them, "Have you come out with swords and clubs to arrest me as if I were a bandit?

Verse ConceptsCrowdsBanditsArresting ChristClubsThe Lord As A Thief

And the high priest stood up in the midst, and asked Jesus, saying, Answerest thou nothing? what is it which these witness against thee?

Verse ConceptsOthers Not AnsweringPeople Getting UpRiverstestifying

And Pilate asked him again, saying, Answerest thou nothing? behold how many things they witness against thee.

Verse ConceptsOthers Not Answering

Now at the feast he used to release unto them one prisoner, whom they asked of him.

Verse ConceptsCustomPeople Releasing Others

So Pilate asked them, "Do you want me to release the king of the Jews for you?"

Verse ConceptsChrist Is King Of IsraelPeople Releasing Others

Pilate asked them again, “Then what do you want me to do with the One you call the King of the Jews?”

Verse ConceptsChrist Is King Of Israel

"Why?" Pilate asked them. "What has he done wrong?" But they shouted even louder, "Crucify him!"

Verse ConceptsGroups ShoutingWhat Sin?

Joseph of Arimathea, a prominent member of the Sanhedrin who was himself looking forward to the kingdom of God, came and boldly went in to Pilate and asked for Jesus’ body.

Verse ConceptsBoldness, To PeopleKingdom Of God, Coming OfSanhedrinWaitingWaiting On GodBoldness Examples OfMessianic HopeJesus CorpseNot DiscouragedThose Who Wait For Godrisk

And Pilate marvelled if he were already dead: and calling unto him the centurion, he asked him whether he had been any while dead.

Verse ConceptsAsking Particular QuestionsOthers SummoningThe Fact Of Christ's Deathsurprises

Bible Theasaurus

Demand (66 instances)
Enquire (7 instances)
Expect (43 instances)
Inquire (138 instances)

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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
ἐπερωτάω 
Eperotao 
Usage: 55

אשׁקלון 
'Ashq@lown 
Usage: 12

בּעה בּעא 
B@`a' (Aramaic) 
Usage: 12

בּקשׁ 
Baqash 
Usage: 225

שׁאל שׁאל 
Sha'al 
Usage: 172

שׁאל 
Sh@'el (Aramaic) 
Usage: 6

αἰτέω 
Aiteo 
Usage: 43

ἀνακρίνω 
Anakrino 
Usage: 16

ἀπαιτέω 
Apaiteo 
Usage: 0

ἐξετάζω 
Exetazo 
Usage: 2

ἐρωτάω 
Erotao 
Usage: 42

πυνθάνομαι 
Punthanomai 
Usage: 11

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