After ¹  three days ²  they found him in the temple courts, ³  sitting among the teachers, ⁴  listening to them and asking them questions.

They willfully challenged God ¹  by asking for food to satisfy their appetite.

So the Jewish leaders ¹  were looking for him at the feast, asking, “Where is he?” ² 

So Samuel spoke all the words of the Lord to the people who were asking him for a king.

I ¹  have not even permitted my mouth ²  to sin by asking ³  for his life through a curse –

When the centurion ¹  heard ²  about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders ³  to him, asking him to come ⁴  and heal his slave.

Jesus ¹  answered, “You don’t know what you are asking! ²  Are you able to drink the cup I am about to drink?” ³  They said to him, “We are able.” ⁴ 

But Jesus said to them, “You don’t know what you are asking! Are you able to drink the cup I drink or be baptized with the baptism I experience?” ¹ 

Then those officials who had gone to the king ¹  came by collusion and found Daniel praying and asking for help before his God.

They ¹  called out to ask if Simon, known as Peter, ²  was staying there as a guest.

All the people said to Samuel, “Pray to the Lord your God on behalf of us – your servants – so we won’t die, for we have added to all our sins by asking for a king.” ¹ 

(Now his father had never corrected ¹  him ²  by saying, “Why do you do such things?” He was also very handsome and had been born right after Absalom. ³ )

For this reason we also, from the day we heard about you, ¹  have not ceased praying for you and asking God ²  to fill ³  you with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

Then the crowd came up and began to ask Pilate to release a prisoner for them, as was his custom. ¹ 

They ¹  blindfolded him and asked him repeatedly, ²  “Prophesy! Who hit you?” ³ 

Eat anything that is sold in the marketplace without questions of conscience,

When they persisted in asking him, he stood up straight ¹  and replied, ²  “Whoever among you is guiltless ³  may be the first to throw a stone at her.”

And when she had said this, Martha ¹  went and called her sister Mary, saying privately, ²  “The Teacher is here and is asking for you.” ³ 

I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but that you keep them safe ¹  from the evil one. ² 

When I was in Jerusalem, ¹  the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed ²  me about him, ³  asking for a sentence of condemnation ⁴  against him.