'Asked' in the Bible

Then they asked Baruch, "Please tell us how you wrote all the words. Did Jeremiah dictate them all?"

Jeremiah said, "There is," and then he said, "You will be given into the hand of the king of Babylon." Then Jeremiah asked King Zedekiah, "What offense have I committed against you, your officials, or these people that you have put me in prison?