'Trying' in the Bible

The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up. While I am trying to get into the water, someone else goes down there before me."

For this reason the Jewish leaders were trying even harder to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was also calling God his own Father, thus making himself equal with God.

The crowd answered, "You're possessed by a demon! Who is trying to kill you?"

Then some of the residents of Jerusalem began to say, "Isn't this the man they are trying to kill?

But now you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth 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.

The disciples replied, "Rabbi, the Jewish leaders were just now trying to stone you to death! Are you going there again?"