36 occurrences

'Asking' in the Bible

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.

Verse ConceptsThe Act Of OpeningKnockingFinding ThingsGod Answers PrayerAccess

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

Verse ConceptsStandingMothersbridges

Jesus replied, "You don't realize what you're asking. Can you drink from the cup that I'm going to drink from?" They told him, "We can."

Verse ConceptsCup Of SufferingBaptismBitterness

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

Verse ConceptsEntering CitiesWho Is Jesus?

A crowd was sitting around him. They told him, "Look! Your mother and your brothers are outside asking for you."

Verse ConceptsCrowds SeekingCrowds Around Jesus

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

Verse ConceptsTeachablenessEntering HousesQuestioning ChristThe Disciples Words

Now the woman happened to be a Greek, born in Phoenicia in Syria. She kept asking him to drive the demon out of her daughter.

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

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?"

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

But Jesus told them, "You don't realize what you're asking. Can you drink from the cup that I'm going to drink from or be baptized with the baptism with which I'm going to be baptized?"

Verse ConceptsCup Of SufferingChrist's Baptism

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

Verse ConceptsAndrewPrivacyPeople Sitting DownQuestioning Christ

The crowds kept asking him, "What, then, should we do?"

Verse ConceptsReligious AwakeningsCrowds SeekingOne's Deeds

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."

Verse ConceptsAggressionGreed, Believers' Response ToOccupationsSatisfactionServants, BadSoldiersWagesWitnesses, FalseContentmentFalse AccusationsEmployersAvoiding ViolenceFalse WaysDo Not StealOne's DeedsBeing Content

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

Verse ConceptsBaptism Of The Holy SpiritThe Act Of OpeningPrayer, As Asking GodAnswered PromisesFinding ThingsGod Answers PrayerGod Giving Freely

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.

Verse ConceptsThe Act Of OpeningFinding ThingsGod Answers Prayer

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.'

Verse ConceptsComplacencyBuying and sellingLove, Abuse OfReal EstateGuest Rooms

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

Verse ConceptsConfusionMisunderstood TruthEating Christ's BodyDiscussionsJesus As Food

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

Verse ConceptsWhere Are People?

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'?"

Verse ConceptsMisunderstood TruthInstructions About FollowingUnable To Do Other Things

"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.

Verse ConceptsMoses, Significance OfGod Giving To The SonJesus PrayingPeople Belong To GodPraying For Others

Jesus replied, "Are you asking this on your own initiative, or did others tell you about me?"

Verse ConceptsTelling Of Jesus

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

Verse ConceptsAmazingConfusionPuzzlementMeaning

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

Verse ConceptsHigh Priest, In NtPower, HumanIn The Name Of Christmagic

and asking Festus to have Paul brought to Jerusalem as a favor. They were laying an ambush to kill him on the road.

Verse ConceptsAskingImportunity, Towards PeopleSpiritual Warfare, Causes OfAmbushAttempting To Kill Specific People

"All of us fell to the ground, and I heard a voice asking me in the Hebrew language, "Saul! Saul! Why are you persecuting me? It is hurting you to keep on kicking against the cattle prods.'

Verse ConceptsGoadsLanguagesPainStriving With GodUnion With Christ, Significance OfLanguages Mentioned In ScriptureDuplicating WordsSharp ToolsKickingPeople Tumbling

in my prayers at all times, asking that somehow by God's will I may at last succeed in coming to you.

Verse ConceptsGuidance, God's Promises OfPrayer, And God's WillPeople VisitingGod's Will Be Doneprospering

And Isaiah boldly says, "I was found by those who were not looking for me; I was revealed to those who were not asking for me."

Verse ConceptsFindingNot Seeking GodFinding GodA Bold FrontBoldnessfearless

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