Verb aiteō (to ask) in the Gospels-Acts

(Translation from NRSV for the New Testament with a few modifications for a more litteral meaning)


Matthew

5: 42Give to everyone who asks (aiteō) you, and do not refuse anyone who wants to borrow from you.
6: 8Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask (aiteō) him.
7: 7"Ask (aiteō), and it will be given you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.
7: 8For everyone who asks (aiteō) receives, and everyone who searches finds, and for everyone who knocks, the door will be opened.
7: 9Is there anyone among you who, if your child asks (aiteō) for bread, will give a stone?
7: 10Or if the child asks (aiteō) for a fish, will give a snake?
7: 11If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask (aiteō) him!
14: 7so much that he promised on oath to grant her whatever she might ask (aiteō).
18: 19Again, truly I tell you, if two of you agree on earth about anything you ask (aiteō), it will be done for you by my Father in heaven.
20: 20Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, and kneeling before him, she asked (aiteō) a favor of him.
20: 22But Jesus answered, "You do not know what you are asking (aiteō). Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink?" They said to him, "We are able."
21: 22Whatever you ask (aiteō) for in prayer with faith, you will receive."
27: 20Now the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowds to ask (aiteō) for Barabbas and to have Jesus killed.
27: 58He went to Pilate and asked (aiteō) for the body of Jesus; then Pilate ordered it to be given to him.

Mark

6: 22When his daughter Herodias came in and danced, she pleased Herod and his guests; and the king said to the girl, "Ask (aiteō) me for whatever you wish, and I will give it."
6: 23And he solemnly swore to her, "Whatever you ask (aiteō) me, I will give you, even half of my kingdom."
6: 24She went out and said to her mother, "What should I ask (aiteō) for?" She replied, "The head of John the baptizer."
6: 25Immediately she rushed back to the king and asked (aiteō), "I want you to give me at once the head of John the Baptist on a platter."
10: 35James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came forward to him and said to him, "Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask (aiteō) of you."
10: 38But Jesus said to them, "You do not know what you are asking (aiteō). Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, or be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?"
11: 24So I tell you, whatever you ask (aiteō) for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
15: 8So the crowd came and began to ask (aiteō) Pilate to do for them according to his custom.
15: 43Joseph of Arimathea, a respected member of the council, who was also himself waiting expectantly for the kingdom of God, went boldly to Pilate and asked (aiteō) for the body of Jesus.

Luke

1: 63He asked (aiteō) for a writing tablet and wrote, "His name is John." And all of them were amazed.
6: 30Give to everyone who asks (aiteō) you; and if anyone takes away your goods, do not demand for them again.
11: 9"So I say to you, Ask (aiteō), and it will be given you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.
11: 10For everyone who asks (aiteō) receives, and everyone who searches finds, and for everyone who knocks, the door will be opened.
11: 11Is there anyone among you who, if your child asks (aiteō) for a fish, will give a snake instead of a fish?
11: 12Or if the child asks (aiteō) for an egg, will give a scorpion?
11: 13If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask (aiteō) him!"
12: 48But the one who did not know and did what deserved a beating will receive a light beating. From everyone to whom much has been given, much will be required; and from the one to whom much has been entrusted, even more will be asked (aiteō) from.
23: 23But they kept urgently asking (aiteō) with loud shouts that he should be crucified; and their voices prevailed.
23: 25He released the man they asked (aiteō) for, the one who had been put in prison for insurrection and murder, and he handed Jesus over as they wished.
23: 52This man went to Pilate and asked (aiteō) for the body of Jesus.

John

4: 9The Samaritan woman said to him, "How is it that you, a Jew, ask (aiteō) a drink of me, a woman of Samaria?" (Jews do not share things in common with Samaritans.)
4: 10Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked (aiteō) him, and he would have given you living water."
11: 22But even now I know that God will give you whatever you ask (aiteō) of him."
14: 13I will do whatever you ask (aiteō) in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
14: 14If in my name you ask (aiteō) me for anything, I will do it.
15: 7If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask (aiteō) for whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
15: 16You did not choose me but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask (aiteō) him in my name.
16: 23On that day you will beg nothing of me. Very truly, I tell you, if you ask (aiteō) anything of the Father in my name, he will give it to you.
16: 24Until now you have not asked (aiteō) for anything in my name. Ask (aiteō) and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete.
16: 26On that day you will ask (aiteō) in my name. I do not say to you that I will beg the Father on your behalf;

Acts

3: 2And a man lame from birth was being carried in. People would lay him daily at the gate of the temple called the Beautiful Gate so that he could ask (aiteō) for alms from those entering the temple.
3: 14But you rejected the Holy and Righteous One and asked (aiteō) to have a murderer given to you,
7: 46who found favor with God and asked (aiteō) that he might find a dwelling place for the house of Jacob.
9: 2and asked (aiteō) him for letters to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any who belonged to the Way, men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.
12: 20Now Herod was angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon. So they came to him in a body; and after winning over Blastus, the king's chamberlain, they asked (aiteō) for a reconciliation, because their country depended on the king's country for food.
13: 21Then they asked (aiteō) for a king; and God gave them Saul son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, who reigned for forty years.
13: 28Even though they found no cause for a sentence of death, they asked (aiteō) Pilate to have him killed.
16: 29The jailer asked (aiteō) for lights, and rushing in, he fell down trembling before Paul and Silas.
25: 3and asked (aiteō), as a favor to them against Paul, to have him transferred to Jerusalem. They were, in fact, planning an ambush to kill him along the way.
25: 15When I was in Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me about him and asked (aiteō) for a sentence against him.

1 John

3: 22and we receive from him whatever we ask (aiteō), because we obey his commandments and do what pleases him.
5: 14And this is the boldness we have in him, that if we ask (aiteō) anything according to his will, he hears us.
5: 15And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask (aiteō), we know that we have obtained what he have asked (aiteō) from him.
5: 16If you see your brother or sister committing what is not a mortal sin, you will ask (aiteō), and God will give life to such a one - to those whose sin is not mortal. There is sin that is mortal; I do not say that you should pray about that.