'Asking' in the Bible

And when he was alone, those around him together 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, because we are many."

Now the woman was a Greek--a Syrophoenician by nationality--and she was asking him that he would expel the demon from her daughter.

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 that I am baptized with?"