'Asking' in the Bible

A crowd was sitting around Him, and they said to Him, “Look! Your mother and Your brothers are outside asking for You.”

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 Jesus had left the crowd and gone into the house, His disciples asked Him about the parable.

But Jesus said to them, “You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, or to be baptized with the baptism [of suffering and death] with which I am baptized?”

The crowd came up and began asking Pilate to do as he usually did for them.