'Tried' in the Bible

Then they tried to seize Him. Yet no one laid a hand on Him because His hour had not yet come.

Again they tried to seize him, but he slipped away from them.

“Rabbi,” the disciples told Him, “just now the Jews tried to stone You, and You’re going there again?”

From then on, Pilate tried to release him, but the Jewish leaders kept shouting, "If you release this fellow, you're not a friend of Caesar! Anyone who claims to be a king is defying Caesar!"