32 occurrences

'Asked' in the Bible

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

When He was alone with the Twelve, those who were around Him asked Him about the parables.

Verse ConceptsTeachablenessIsolated PersonsQuestioning ChristTwelve DisciplesJesus Using Parables

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

“What is your name?” He asked him.“My name is Legion,” he answered Him, “because we are many.”

Verse ConceptsSatanticLonelinessMany Spiritual BeingsDemonspork

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

Then the Pharisees and the scribes asked Him, “Why don’t Your disciples live according to the tradition of the elders, instead of eating bread with ritually unclean hands?”

Verse ConceptsFaultsComplaintselders, as community leadersConfrontationLaw, Jesus Christ's Attitude ToPharisees, Beliefs OfTraditionsPeople UnwashedHow People EatPharisees Concerned About ChristLack Of HolinessFinding Fault With Jesus

When He went into the house away from the crowd, the disciples asked Him about the parable.

Verse ConceptsTeachablenessEntering HousesQuestioning ChristThe Disciples Words

“How many loaves do you have?” He asked them.“Seven,” they said.

Verse ConceptsSeven Things

He took the blind man by the hand and brought him out of the village. Spitting on his eyes and laying His hands on him, He asked him, “Do you see anything?”

Verse ConceptsSpittingSalivaLaying On Hands To HealEyes Cared ForThe Faculty Of Sight

Jesus went out with His disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi. And on the road He asked His disciples, “Who do people say that I am?”

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

Then He asked them, “What are you arguing with them about?”

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

“How long has this been happening to him?” Jesus asked his father.“From childhood,” he said.

Verse ConceptsChronic AilmentsBeing Evil From Youth

Then they came to Capernaum. When He was in the house, He asked them, “What were you arguing about on the way?”

Verse ConceptsRoadsChrist EnquiringDiscussions

Some Pharisees approached Him to test Him. They asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”

Verse ConceptsTestingSnares Laid For ChristQuestioning ChristTesting ChristDivorce PermittedPharisees Concerned About Christ

As He was setting out on a journey, a man ran up, knelt down before Him, and asked Him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

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

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

Verse ConceptsRight Desires

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

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

Verse ConceptsPortraitsInscriptionsNature Of KingsSelf Imageimagetaxes

One of the scribes approached. When he heard them debating and saw that Jesus answered them well, he asked Him, “Which command is the most important 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

While He was sitting on the Mount of Olives across from the temple complex, Peter, James, John, and Andrew asked Him privately,

Verse ConceptsAndrewPrivacyPeople Sitting DownQuestioning Christ

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

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

So Pilate asked Him, “Are You the King of the Jews?”He answered him, “You have said it.”

Verse ConceptsClaimsJews, TheKingship, DivineInterrogatingAssentingWho Is Jesus?Christ Is King Of IsraelJews

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

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

Pilate was surprised that He was already dead. Summoning the centurion, he asked him whether He had already died.

Verse ConceptsAsking Particular QuestionsOthers SummoningThe Fact Of Christ's Deathsurprises

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