1013 verses about Seeking

Be careful therefore how you hear. For whoever has, to him will be given; and whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he thinks he has.”

Behold, there came a man named Jairus, and he was a ruler of the synagogue. He fell down at Jesus’ feet, and begged him to come into his house,

Herod said, “John I beheaded, but who is this, about whom I hear such things?” He sought to see him.

As he was praying alone, the disciples were with him, and he asked them, “Who do the multitudes say that I am?”

As they went on the way, a certain man said to him, “I want to follow you wherever you go, Lord.”

but one thing is needed. Mary has chosen the good part, which will not be taken away from her.”

He said to them, “Which of you, if you go to a friend at midnight, and tell him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread,

“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.

For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.

Others, testing him, sought from him a sign from heaven.

Don’t seek what you will eat or what you will drink; neither be anxious.

For the nations of the world seek after all of these things, but your Father knows that you need these things.

But seek God’s Kingdom, and all these things will be added to you.

He spoke this parable. “A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it, and found none.

“Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able.

Now great multitudes were going with him. He turned and said to them,

Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him.

“Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep, and lost one of them, wouldn’t leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one that was lost, until he found it?

When he has found it, he carries it on his shoulders, rejoicing.

Or what woman, if she had ten drachma coins, if she lost one drachma coin, wouldn’t light a lamp, sweep the house, and seek diligently until she found it?

The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.”

A certain ruler asked him, saying, “Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”

Hearing a multitude going by, he asked what this meant.

Those who led the way rebuked him, that he should be quiet; but he cried out all the more, “You son of David, have mercy on me!”

“What do you want me to do?” He said, “Lord, that I may see again.”

He was trying to see who Jesus was, and couldn’t because of the crowd, because he was short.

He ran on ahead, and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, for he was going to pass that way.

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost.”

Every day Jesus was teaching in the temple, and every night he would go out and spend the night on the mountain that is called Olivet.

All the people came early in the morning to him in the temple to hear him.

Now when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceedingly glad, for he had wanted to see him for a long time, because he had heard many things about him. He hoped to see some miracle done by him.

(he had not consented to their counsel and deed), from Arimathaea, a city of the Jews, who was also waiting for God’s Kingdom:

Becoming terrified, they bowed their faces down to the earth. They said to them, “Why do you seek the living among the dead?

While they talked and questioned together, Jesus himself came near, and went with them.

They came near to the village, where they were going, and he acted like he would go further.

They urged him, saying, “Stay with us, for it is almost evening, and the day is almost over.” He went in to stay with them.

They said therefore to him, “Who are you? Give us an answer to take back to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?”

Again, the next day, John was standing with two of his disciples,

The two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus.

Jesus turned, and saw them following, and said to them, “What are you looking for?” They said to him, “Rabbi” (which is to say, being interpreted, Teacher), “where are you staying?”

He said to them, “Come, and see.” They came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day. It was about the tenth hour.

One of the two who heard John, and followed him, was Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother.

He first found his own brother, Simon, and said to him, “We have found the Messiah!” (which is, being interpreted, Christ).

On the next day, he was determined to go out into Galilee, and he found Philip. Jesus said to him, “Follow me.”

Nathanael said to him, “Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.”

The same came to him by night, and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him.”

A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.”

The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. So where do you get that living water?

The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I don’t get thirsty, neither come all the way here to draw.”

But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshipers.

“Come, see a man who told me everything that I did. Can this be the Christ?”

They went out of the city, and were coming to him.

I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous; because I don’t seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.

“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.

Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life.

How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God?

When the multitude therefore saw that Jesus wasn’t there, nor his disciples, they themselves got into the boats, and came to Capernaum, seeking Jesus.

When they found him on the other side of the sea, they asked him, “Rabbi, when did you come here?”

Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, you seek me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves, and were filled.

They said therefore to him, “What must we do, that we may work the works of God?”

They said therefore to him, “What then do you do for a sign, that we may see, and believe you? What work do you do?

They said therefore to him, “Lord, always give us this bread.”

For no one does anything in secret, and himself seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, reveal yourself to the world.”

But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly, but as it were in secret.

The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, “Where is he?”

If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself.

You will seek me, and won’t find me; and where I am, you can’t come.”

What is this word that he said, ‘You will seek me, and won’t find me; and where I am, you can’t come’ ?”

Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!

but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.

Jesus said therefore again to them, “I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sins. Where I go, you can’t come.”

But I don’t seek my own glory. There is one who seeks and judges.

but how he now sees, we don’t know; or who opened his eyes, we don’t know. He is of age. Ask him. He will speak for himself.”

Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and finding him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of God?”

He answered, “Who is he, Lord, that I may believe in him?”

The Jews therefore came around him and said to him, “How long will you hold us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.”

When she heard this, she arose quickly, and went to him.

Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews, but departed from there into the country near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim. He stayed there with his disciples.

Then they sought for Jesus and spoke one with another, as they stood in the temple, “What do you think—that he isn’t coming to the feast at all?”

A large crowd therefore of the Jews learned that he was there, and they came, not for Jesus’ sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.

Now there were certain Greeks among those that went up to worship at the feast.

These, therefore, came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galilee, and asked him, saying, “Sir, we want to see Jesus.”

Jesus therefore said to them, “Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn’t overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn’t know where he is going.

Little children, I will be with you a little while longer. You will seek me, and as I said to the Jews, ‘Where I am going, you can’t come,’ so now I tell you.

Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us.”

Therefore Jesus perceived that they wanted to ask him, and he said to them, “Do you inquire among yourselves concerning this, that I said, ‘A little while, and you won’t see me, and again a little while, and you will see me?’

Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.

Again therefore he asked them, “Who are you looking for?” They said, “Jesus of Nazareth.”

Jesus answered, “I told you that I am he. If therefore you seek me, let these go their way,”

Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Who are you looking for?” She, supposing him to be the gardener, said to him, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away.”

They prayed, and said, “You, Lord, who know the hearts of all men, show which one of these two you have chosen

He listened to them, expecting to receive something from them.

When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight. As he came close to see, a voice of the Lord came to him,

who found favor in the sight of God, and asked to find a habitation for the God of Jacob.

He arose and went; and behold, there was a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasure, who had come to Jerusalem to worship.

He was returning and sitting in his chariot, and was reading the prophet Isaiah.

Philip ran to him, and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said, “Do you understand what you are reading?”

He said, “How can I, unless someone explains it to me?” He begged Philip to come up and sit with him.

The eunuch answered Philip, “Who is the prophet talking about? About himself, or about someone else?”

But rise up, and enter into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”