'Trying' in the Bible

The whole crowd was trying to touch Him, because power was coming out from Him and healing them all.

He was trying to see who Jesus was, but he was not able because of the crowd, since he was a short man.

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.

After this, Jesus traveled in Galilee, since He did not want to travel in Judea because the Jews were trying to kill Him.

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!

“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.

Then also, some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers argued with him. Some said, “What is this pseudo-intellectual trying to say?”Others replied, “He seems to be a preacher of foreign deities”—because he was telling the good news about Jesus and the Resurrection.

Then he entered the synagogue and spoke boldly over a period of three months, engaging in discussion and trying to persuade them about the things of the kingdom of God.

As they were trying to kill him, word went up to the commander of the regiment that all Jerusalem was in chaos.

For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple complex and were trying to kill me.

Lord, they have killed Your prophetsand torn down Your altars.I am the only one left,and they are trying to take my life!

However, if you do get married, you have not sinned, and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. But such people will have trouble in this life, and I am trying to spare you.

I don’t want to seem as though I am trying to terrify you with my letters.

For am I now trying to win the favor of people, or God? Or am I striving to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a slave of Christ.

You who are trying to be justified by the law are alienated from Christ; you have fallen from grace.

I have written these things to you about those who are trying to deceive you.