'Seeking' in the Bible

“Now when the unclean spirit goes out of a man, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, and does not find it.

While He was still speaking to the crowds, behold, His mother and brothers were standing outside, seeking to speak to Him.

Someone said to Him, “Behold, Your mother and Your brothers are standing outside seeking to speak to You.”

“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant seeking fine pearls,

The Pharisees came out and began to argue with Him, seeking from Him a sign from heaven, to test Him.

The chief priests and the scribes heard this, and began seeking how to destroy Him; for they were afraid of Him, for the whole crowd was astonished at His teaching.

And they were seeking to seize Him, and yet they feared the people, for they understood that He spoke the parable against them. And so they left Him and went away.

Now the Passover and Unleavened Bread were two days away; and the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how to seize Him by stealth and kill Him;

They were glad when they heard this, and promised to give him money. And he began seeking how to betray Him at an opportune time.

“When the unclean spirit goes out of a man, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, and not finding any, it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’

The chief priests and the scribes were seeking how they might put Him to death; for they were afraid of the people.

So he consented, and began seeking a good opportunity to betray Him to them apart from the crowd.

For this reason therefore the Jews were seeking all the more to kill Him, because He not only was breaking the Sabbath, but also was calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.

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

After these things Jesus was walking in Galilee, for He was unwilling to walk in Judea because the Jews were seeking to kill Him.

So the Jews were seeking Him at the feast and were saying, “Where is He?”

He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory; but He who is seeking the glory of the One who sent Him, He is true, and there is no unrighteousness in Him.

So some of the people of Jerusalem were saying, “Is this not the man whom they are seeking to kill?

So they were seeking to seize Him; and no man laid his hand on Him, because His hour had not yet come.

But as it is, you are seeking to kill Me, a man who has told you the truth, which I heard from God; this Abraham did not do.

Therefore they were seeking again to seize Him, and He eluded their grasp.

The disciples *said to Him, “Rabbi, the Jews were just now seeking to stone You, and are You going there again?”

So they were seeking for Jesus, and were saying to one another as they stood in the temple, “What do you think; that He will not come to the feast at all?”

Jesus *said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking?” Supposing Him to be the gardener, she *said to Him, “Sir, if you have carried Him away, tell me where you have laid Him, and I will take Him away.”

But Elymas the magician (for so his name is translated) was opposing them, seeking to turn the proconsul away from the faith.

Now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon you, and you will be blind and not see the sun for a time.” And immediately a mist and a darkness fell upon him, and he went about seeking those who would lead him by the hand.

But the Jews, becoming jealous and taking along some wicked men from the market place, formed a mob and set the city in an uproar; and attacking the house of Jason, they were seeking to bring them out to the people.

While they were seeking to kill him, a report came up to the commander of the Roman cohort that all Jerusalem was in confusion.

For not knowing about God’s righteousness 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.”

What then? What Israel is seeking, it has not obtained, but those who were chosen obtained it, and the rest were hardened;

just as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit but the profit of the many, so that they may be saved.

since you are seeking for proof of the Christ who speaks in me, and who is not weak toward you, but mighty in you.

For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a bond-servant of Christ.

But if, while seeking to be justified in Christ, we ourselves have also been found sinners, is Christ then a minister of sin? May it never be!

You have been severed from Christ, you who are seeking to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace.

Therefore if you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.

For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a country of their own.

For here we do not have a lasting city, but we are seeking the city which is to come.

seeking to know what person or time the Spirit of Christ within them was indicating as He predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories to follow.

Be of sober spirit, be on the alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.