Lexicon :: Strong's G2212 - zēteō

When Jesus turned and noticed them following him, he asked them, “What are you looking for? ”

They said to him, “Rabbi” (which means “Teacher”), “where are you staying? ”

“But an hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in Spirit and in truth.[fn] Yes, the Father wants such people to worship him.

Just then his disciples arrived, and they were amazed that he was talking with a woman. Yet no one said, “What do you want? ” or “Why are you talking with her? ”

Therefore, the Jews began persecuting Jesus[fn] because he was doing these things on the Sabbath.

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 to God.

“I can do nothing on my own. I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

“How can you believe, since you accept glory from one another but don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God?

When the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into the boats and went to Capernaum looking for Jesus.

Jesus answered, “Truly I tell you, you are looking for me, not because you saw[fn] the signs, but because you ate the loaves and were filled.

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

“For no one does anything in secret while he’s seeking public recognition. If you do these things, show yourself to the world.”

The Jews were looking for him at the festival and saying, “Where is he? ”

“The one who speaks on his own seeks his own glory; but he who seeks the glory of the one who sent him is true, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

Some of the people of Jerusalem were saying, “Isn’t this the man they are trying to kill?

Then they tried to seize him. Yet no one laid a hand on him because his hour had not yet come.

“You will look for me, but you will not find me; and where I am, you cannot come.”

“What is this remark he made: ‘You will look for me, and you will not find me; and where I am, you cannot come’? ”

Then he said to them again, “I’m going away; you will look for me, and you will die in your sin. Where I’m going, you cannot come.”

“I know you are descendants of Abraham, but you are trying to kill me because my word has no place 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.

“I do not seek my own glory; there is one who seeks it and judges.

Then they were trying again to seize him, but he escaped their grasp.

“Rabbi,” the disciples told him, “just now the Jews tried to stone you, and you’re going there again? ”

They were looking for Jesus and asking one another as they stood in the temple, “What do you think? He won’t come to the festival, will he? ”

“Little children, I am with you a little while longer. You will look for me, and just as I told the Jews, so now I tell you, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come.’

Jesus knew they wanted to ask him, and so he said to them, “Are you asking one another about what I said, ‘In a little while, you will not see me; again in a little while, you will see me’?

Then Jesus, knowing everything that was about to happen to him, went out and said to them, “Who is it that you’re seeking? ”

Then he asked them again, “Who is it that you’re seeking? ”

“Jesus of Nazareth,” they said.

From that moment Pilate kept trying[fn] to release him. But the Jews shouted, “If you release this man, you are not Caesar’s friend. Anyone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar! ”

“Woman,” Jesus said to her, “why are you crying? Who is it that you’re seeking? ”

Supposing he was the gardener, she replied, “Sir, if you’ve carried him away, tell me where you’ve put him, and I will take him away.”