'Asking' in the Bible

Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king (Herod the Great), magi (wise men) from the east came to Jerusalem, asking,

And having been warned [by God] in a dream not to go back to Herod, the magi left for their own country by another way.

to him who is asking of thee be giving, and him who is willing to borrow from thee thou mayest not turn away.

be ye not therefore like to them, for your Father doth know those things that ye have need of before your asking him;

Do not be over-anxious, therefore, asking 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?'

For all these are questions that Gentiles are always asking; but your Heavenly Father knows that you need these things--all of them.

“Keep asking, and it will be given to you. Keep searching, and you will find. Keep knocking, and the door will be opened to you.

Because everyone who keeps asking will receive, and the person who keeps searching will find, and the person who keeps knocking will have the door opened.

So if you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who keep on asking him!

When he entered Capernaum, a centurion came to him asking for help:

While Jesus was still speaking to the crowds, his mother and brothers came and stood outside, asking to speak to him.

Someone told him, "Look! Your mother and your brothers are standing outside, asking to speak to you."

And he did not answer her a word; and his disciples having come to him, were asking him, saying -- 'Let her away, because she crieth after us;'

And Jesus, having come to the parts of Caesarea Philippi, was asking his disciples, saying, 'Who do men say me to be -- the Son of Man?'

And Pharisees came to Jesus, testing Him and asking, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for just any reason?”

And He said to him, “Why are you asking Me about what is good? There is only One who is good; but if you wish to enter into life, keep the commandments.”

Then came near to him the mother of the sons of Zebedee, with her sons, bowing and asking something from him,

But Jesus answered, “You don’t know what you’re asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink?”“We are able,” they said to Him.

When he came into Jerusalem, the whole city was trembling with excitement. The people were asking, "Who is this?"

One of them, an expert in the Law, tested him by asking,

Now a leper came to him and fell to his knees, asking for help. "If you are willing, you can make me clean," he said.

A crowd was sitting around Him and told Him, “Look, Your mother, Your brothers, and Your sisters are outside asking for You.”

As soon as He was alone, His followers, along with the twelve, began asking Him about the parables.

And He was asking him, “What is your name?” And he *said to Him, “My name is Legion; for we are many.”

So the Pharisees and scribes asked Jesus, “Why do Your disciples not live their lives according to the tradition of the elders, but [instead] eat their bread with [ceremonially] unwashed hands?”

When he had left the crowd and gone home, his disciples began asking him about the parable.

Now the woman was Greek, a Syrophoenician by birth, and she kept asking Him to drive the demon out of her daughter.

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

Then the Pharisees came and began to argue with Jesus, asking for a sign from heaven to test him.

Then Jesus and his disciples set out for the villages around Caesarea Philippi. On the way he was asking his disciples, "Who do people say I am?"

So they kept the matter to themselves, although frequently asking one another what was meant by the rising from the dead.

He asked the scribes, "What are you asking them?"

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

But Jesus said to them, “You don’t know what you’re asking. Are you able to drink the cup I drink or to be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with?”

As Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives facing the Temple, Peter, James, John, and Andrew were asking him privately,

They were filled with sorrow, and began asking Him, one by one, "Not I, is it?"

And at every feast he was releasing to them one prisoner, whomsoever they were asking;

The crowd went up and began asking him to do as he had been accustomed to do for them.

They had been asking each other, "Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance to the tomb?"

So they made signs to his father [asking] what he wanted him to be named,

And it came to pass, that after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions.

“What then should we do?” the crowds were asking him.

Even some soldiers were asking him, "And what should we do?" He told them, "Never extort money from anyone by threats or blackmail, and be satisfied with your pay."

Then the Scribes and Pharisees began to cavil, asking, "Who is this, uttering blasphemies? Who but God alone can forgive sins?"

Well aware of their reasonings, Jesus answered their questions by asking in turn, "What is this that you are debating in your hearts?

'And to every one who is asking of thee, be giving; and from him who is taking away thy goods, be not asking again;

When he heard about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders asking Him to come and save the life of his slave.

and sent them to the Lord, asking, “Are You the One who is to come, or should we look for someone else?”

And a certain one of the Pharisees was asking him that he might eat with him, and having gone into the house of the Pharisee he reclined (at meat),

He said to them, “Where is your faith?”They were fearful and amazed, asking one another, “Who can this be? He commands even the winds and the waves, and they obey Him!”

“So I say to you, keep asking, and it will be given to you. Keep searching, and you will find. Keep knocking, and the door will be opened to you.

because everyone who keeps asking will receive, and the person who keeps searching will find, and the person who keeps knocking will have the door opened.

So if you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who keep asking him!"

Others, wanting to test Jesus, kept asking him for a sign from heaven.

And in his speaking, a certain Pharisee was asking him that he might dine with him, and having gone in, he reclined (at meat),

"Therefore, do not be asking what you are to eat nor what you are to drink; and do not waver between hope and fear.

Every single one of them began asking to be excused. The first told him, "I bought a field, and I need to go out and inspect it. Please excuse me.'

"Which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not sit down first and calculate the cost, asking if he has the means to finish it? --

After blindfolding Him, they kept asking, “Prophesy! Who hit You?”

So he kept asking Him questions, but Jesus did not answer him.

And they were pressing with loud voices asking him to be crucified, and their voices, and those of the chief priests, were prevailing,

and released the one they were asking for, who had been thrown into prison for rebellion and murder. But he handed Jesus over to their will.

Nicodemus said to Him, “How can these things be possible?”

And in the meanwhile his disciples were asking him, saying, 'Rabbi, eat;'

When, then, the Samaritans came unto him, they were asking him to remain with them, and he remained there two days;

he, having heard that Jesus is come out of Judea to Galilee, went away unto him, and was asking him that he may come down and may heal his son, for he was about to die.

They kept saying, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How does He now [have the arrogance to] say, ‘I have come down out of heaven’?”

Then the Jewish leaders debated angrily with each other, asking, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"

The Jewish leaders kept looking for him at the festival, asking, "Where is that man?"

(Now they were asking this in an attempt to trap him, so that they could bring charges against him.) Jesus bent down and wrote on the ground with his finger.

So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.

Then they began asking him, "Who is your father?" Jesus answered, "You do not know either me or my Father. If you knew me you would know my Father too."

So the Jewish leaders were asking, "He isn't going to kill himself, is he? Is that why he said, "You cannot come where I'm going'?"

His neighbours, therefore, and the other people to whom he had been a familiar object because he was a beggar, began asking, "Is not this the man who used to sit and beg?"

They therefore were asking him, "How were your eyes opened?"

Again, therefore, the Pharisees also were asking him how he received sight, and he said to them, 'Clay he did put upon my eyes, and I did wash -- and I see.'

So the Jews surrounded Him and began saying to Him, “How long are You going to keep us in suspense? If You are [really] the Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed), tell us so plainly and openly.”

And when she had said this, Martha went and called her sister Mary, saying privately, "The Teacher is here and is asking for you."

They were looking for Jesus and asking one another as they stood in the temple complex: “What do you think? He won’t come to the festival, will He?”

these then came near to Philip, who is from Bethsaida of Galilee, and were asking him, saying, 'Sir, we wish to see Jesus;'

But now I am going to the one who sent me, and not one of you is asking me, 'Where are you going?'

Jesus knew they wanted to question Him, so He said to them, “Are you asking one another about what I said, ‘A little while and you will not see Me; again a little while and you will see Me’?

So far you haven't asked for anything in my name. Keep asking and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete."

"I am asking on their behalf. I am not asking on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those you gave me, because they are yours.

I'm not asking you to take them out of the world but to protect them from the evil one.

Why are you asking me? Ask those who heard what I have said to them! Behold, these [people] know what I said."

Upon His saying this, one of the officers standing by struck Him with his open hand, asking Him as he did so, "Is that the way you answer the High Priest?"

But Simon Peter remained standing and warming himself, and this led to their asking him, "Are you also one of his disciples?" He denied it, and said, "No, I am not."

Jesus answered, “Are you asking this on your own, or have others told you about Me?”

So when they had come together, they were asking Him, saying, “Lord, is it at this time You are restoring the kingdom to Israel?”

All of them continued to be stunned and puzzled, and they kept asking one another, "What can this mean?"

When he saw Peter and John about to go into the temple, he began asking to receive alms.

And they recognized him, that this one was the one who used to sit [asking] for alms at the Beautiful Gate of the temple, and they were filled with awe and astonishment at what had happened to him.

They made Peter and John stand in front of them and began asking, "By what power or by what name did you do this?"

"The Moses whom they rejected, asking him, 'Who appointed you magistrate and judge?' --that same Moses we find God sending as a magistrate and a deliverer by the help of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

Now while Peter was greatly perplexed within himself [as to] what the vision that he had seen might be, behold, the men who had been sent by Cornelius, having found the house of Simon by asking around, stood at the gate.

They called out, asking if Simon, who was also named Peter, was lodging there.

And Herod was highly displeased with the Tyrians and Sidonians, and with one accord they came unto him, and having made a friend of Blastus, who is over the bed-chambers of the king, they were asking peace, because of their country being nourished from the king's;

and having come, they besought them, and having brought them forth, they were asking them to go forth from the city;

Those who were caring for Paul's safety went with him as far as Athens, and then left him, taking a message from him to Silas and Timothy, asking them to join him as speedily as possible.