'Seeking' in the Bible

So on account of this the Jews were seeking even more to kill him, because he not only was breaking the Sabbath, but also was calling God his own Father, [thus] making himself equal with God.

So when the crowd saw that Jesus was not there, nor his disciples, they themselves got into the boats and came to Capernaum seeking Jesus.

And after these [things] Jesus was going about in Galilee. For he did not want to go about in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill him.

The crowd replied, "You have a demon! Who is seeking to kill you?"

Then some of the inhabitants of Jerusalem began to say, "Is this not [the one] whom they are seeking to kill?

So they were seeking to seize him, and no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.

I know that you are descendants of Abraham. But you are seeking to kill me, because my word makes no progress among you.

But now you are seeking to kill me, a man who spoke to you the truth which I heard from God. This Abraham did not do.

So they were seeking again to seize him, and he departed out of their hand.

The disciples said to him, "Rabbi, the Jews were seeking just now to stone you, and are you going there again?"

From this [point on] Pilate was seeking to release him, but the Jews shouted, saying, "If you release this man, you are not a friend of Caesar! Everyone who makes himself out to be a king opposes Caesar!"