'Trying' in the Bible
The sick man answered him, "Sir, I don't have anyone to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up. While I'm trying to get there, someone else steps down ahead of me."
This is why the Jews began trying all the more to kill Him: Not only was He breaking the Sabbath, but He was even calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.
and this he said, trying him, for he himself had known what he was about to do.
After this, Jesus traveled in Galilee, since He did not want to travel in Judea because the Jews were trying to kill Him.
Moses gave you the Law, didn't he? Yet none of you is keeping the Law. Why are you trying to kill me?"
The crowd answered, "You have a demon! Who is trying to kill you?"
Then some of the people of Jerusalem began saying, "This is the man they are trying to kill, isn't it?
and this they said, trying him, that they might have to accuse him. And Jesus, having stooped down, with the finger he was writing on the ground,
I know you are descendants of Abraham, but you are trying to kill Me because My word is not welcome among you.
But now you are trying to kill Me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham did not do this!
I am not trying to get praise for myself. There is one who demands it, and he also judges.
Jesus answered, "If I were trying to glorify myself, my glory would mean nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say, "He is our God.'
“You were born entirely in sin,” they replied, “and are you trying to teach us?” Then they threw him out.
Then they were trying again to seize Him, yet He eluded their grasp.