'Seeking' in the Bible

saying, "Get up, take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those who were seeking the life of the child are dead."

And from that time on, he began seeking a favorable opportunity in order that he could betray him.

And they were seeking to arrest him, and they were afraid of the crowd, because they knew that he had told the parable with reference to them. And they left him [and] went away.

Now after two days it was the Passover and the feast of Unleavened Bread, and the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how, [after] arresting him by stealth, they could kill [him].

And [when] they heard [this], they were delighted, and promised to give him money. And he began seeking how he could betray him conveniently.

And [when it] was day, he departed [and] went to an isolated place. And the crowds were seeking him, and came to him and were trying to prevent him from departing from them.

And behold, men [came] carrying on a stretcher a man who was paralyzed, and they were seeking to bring him in and place [him] before him.

And the whole crowd was seeking to touch him, because power was going out from him and healing [them] all.

And he was seeking to see Jesus--who he was--and he was not able to as a result of the crowd, because he was short in stature.

And he was teaching every day in the temple [courts], and the chief priests and the scribes and the most prominent men of the people were seeking to destroy him.

And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how they could destroy him, because they were afraid of the people.

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!"

And [as they] were seeking to kill him, a report came up to the military tribune of the cohort that all Jerusalem was in confusion.

And [when] the sailors were seeking to escape from the ship and were lowering the ship's boat into the sea, pretending as if they were going to lay out anchors from the bow,

For ignoring the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

"Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have torn down your altars, and I alone am left, and they are seeking my life!"

just as I also please all [people] in all [things], not seeking my own benefit, but the [benefit] of the many, in order that they may be saved.

Behold, this third [time] I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden [to you]. For I am not seeking your possessions, but you. For children are not obligated to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.

For am I now making an appeal to people or [to] God? Or am I seeking to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a slave of Christ.

But if [while] seeking to be justified by Christ, [we] ourselves also have been found [to be] sinners, then [is] Christ an agent of sin? May it never be!

nor seeking glory from people, neither from you nor from others.

For those who say such [things] make clear that they are seeking a homeland.