'Asking' in the Bible

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.”

Now the woman was a Gentile, of the Syrophoenician race. And she kept asking Him to cast the demon out of her daughter.

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

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 do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, or to be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized?”

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