'Asking' in the Bible

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

And it happened that after three days they found him in the temple [courts], sitting in the midst of the teachers and listening to them and asking them [questions].

And the crowds were asking him, saying, "What then should we do?"

And those who served in the army were also asking him, saying, "What should we also do?" And he said to them, "Extort from no one, and do not blackmail [anyone], and be content with your pay."

So [when he] heard about Jesus, he sent Jewish elders to him, asking him that he would come [and] cure his slave.

And he released the one who had been thrown into prison because of insurrection and murder, whom they were asking for, but Jesus he handed over to their will.