Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'sought' occurs 219 times in the standard works.

46 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'sought' in the standard works and contain 21% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 16 minutes to read the entire list.

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2 Ne. 1:24-25 (4 in 2 verses)

D&C 10:6-7 (4 in 2 verses)

Song. 3:1-2 (3 in 2 verses)

Hel. 13:37-38 (3 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 14:7 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 22:9 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 26:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 65:1 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 17:44 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 51:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 54:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 10:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Moses 4:6 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 1:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 17:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Eccl. 12:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 2:48-49 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 2:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Ether 8:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Ether 13:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 87 11 98
NT 39 33 72
Matt. 4 5 9
Mark 5 6 11
Luke 13 10 23
John 9 4 13
Acts 2 6 8
Rom. 2 0 2
2 Cor. 0 1 1
1 Thes. 1 0 1
1 Tim. 0 1 1
2 Tim. 1 0 1
Heb. 2 0 2
BM 65 2 67
DC 19 0 19
PGP 9 0 9
TOTAL 219 46 265

Matt. 2:20
Saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they are dead which sought the young child's life.

Matt. 8:31
So the devils besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, suffer us to go away into the herd of swine.

Matt. 8:34
And, behold, the whole city came out to meet Jesus: and when they saw him, they besought him that he would depart out of their coasts.

Matt. 14:36
And besought him that they might only touch the hem of his garment: and as many as touched were made perfectly whole.

Matt. 15:23
But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us.

Matt. 18:29
And his fellowservant fell down at his feet, and besought him, saying, Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.

Matt. 21:46
But when they sought to lay hands on him, they feared the multitude, because they took him for a prophet.

Matt. 26:16
And from that time he sought opportunity to betray him.

Matt. 26:59
Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death;

Mark 5:10
And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the country.

Mark 5:12
And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.

Mark 5:23
And besought him greatly, saying, My little daughter lieth at the point of death: I pray thee, come and lay thy hands on her, that she may be healed; and she shall live.

Mark 6:56
And whithersoever he entered, into villages, or cities, or country, they laid the sick in the streets, and besought him that they might touch if it were but the border of his garment: and as many as touched him were made whole.

Mark 7:26
The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter.

Mark 8:22
And he cometh to Bethsaida; and they bring a blind man unto him, and besought him to touch him.

Mark 11:18
And the scribes and chief priests heard it, and sought how they might destroy him: for they feared him, because all the people was astonished at his doctrine.

Mark 12:12
And they sought to lay hold on him, but feared the people: for they knew that he had spoken the parable against them: and they left him, and went their way.

Mark 14:1
After two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death.

Mark 14:11
And when they heard it, they were glad, and promised to give him money. And he sought how he might conveniently betray him.

Mark 14:55
And the chief priests and all the council sought for witness against Jesus to put him to death; and found none.

Luke 2:44
But they, supposing him to have been in the company, went a day's journey; and they sought him among their kinsfolk and acquaintance.

Luke 2:48
And when they saw him, they were amazed: and his mother said unto him, Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? behold, thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing.

Luke 2:49
And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business?

Luke 4:38
And he arose out of the synagogue, and entered into Simon's house. And Simon's wife's mother was taken with a great fever; and they besought him for her.

Luke 4:42
And when it was day, he departed and went into a desert place: and the people sought him, and came unto him, and stayed him, that he should not depart from them.

Luke 5:12
And it came to pass, when he was in a certain city, behold a man full of leprosy: who seeing Jesus fell on his face, and besought him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.

Luke 5:18
And, behold, men brought in a bed a man which was taken with a palsy: and they sought means to bring him in, and to lay him before him.

Luke 6:19
And the whole multitude sought to touch him: for there went virtue out of him, and healed them all.

Luke 7:4
And when they came to Jesus, they besought him instantly, saying, That he was worthy for whom he should do this:

Luke 8:31
And they besought him that he would not command them to go out into the deep.

Luke 8:32
And there was there an herd of many swine feeding on the mountain: and they besought him that he would suffer them to enter into them. And he suffered them.

Luke 8:37
Then the whole multitude of the country of the Gadarenes round about besought him to depart from them; for they were taken with great fear: and he went up into the ship, and returned back again.

Luke 8:38
Now the man out of whom the devils were departed besought him that he might be with him: but Jesus sent him away, saying,

Luke 8:41
And, behold, there came a man named Jairus, and he was a ruler of the synagogue: and he fell down at Jesus' feet, and besought him that he would come into his house:

Luke 9:40
And I besought thy disciples to cast him out; and they could not.

Luke 11:16
And others, tempting him, sought of him a sign from heaven.

Luke 11:37
And as he spake, a certain Pharisee besought him to dine with him: and he went in, and sat down to meat.

Luke 13:6
He spake also this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none.

Luke 19:3
And he sought to see Jesus who he was; and could not for the press, because he was little of stature.

Luke 19:47
And he taught daily in the temple. But the chief priests and the scribes and the chief of the people sought to destroy him,

Luke 20:19
And the chief priests and the scribes the same hour sought to lay hands on him; and they feared the people: for they perceived that he had spoken this parable against them.

Luke 22:2
And the chief priests and scribes sought how they might kill him; for they feared the people.

Luke 22:6
And he promised, and sought opportunity to betray him unto them in the absence of the multitude.

John 4:40
So when the Samaritans were come unto him, they besought him that he would tarry with them: and he abode there two days.

John 4:47
When he heard that Jesus was come out of Judaea into Galilee, he went unto him, and besought him that he would come down, and heal his son: for he was at the point of death.

John 5:16
And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day.

John 5:18
Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.

John 7:1
After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him.

John 7:11
Then the Jews sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he?

John 7:30
Then they sought to take him: but no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come.

John 10:39
Therefore they sought again to take him: but he escaped out of their hand,

John 11:8
His disciples say unto him, Master, the Jews of late sought to stone thee; and goest thou thither again?

John 11:56
Then sought they for Jesus, and spake among themselves, as they stood in the temple, What think ye, that he will not come to the feast?

John 19:12
And from thenceforth Pilate sought to release him: but the Jews cried out, saying, If thou let this man go, thou art not Caesar's friend: whosoever maketh himself a king speaketh against Caesar.

John 19:31
The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

John 19:38
And after this Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave him leave. He came therefore, and took the body of Jesus.

Acts 12:19
And when Herod had sought for him, and found him not, he examined the keepers, and commanded that they should be put to death. And he went down from Judaea to Caesarea, and there abode.

Acts 13:42
And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles besought that these words might be preached to them the next sabbath.

Acts 16:15
And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us, saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there. And she constrained us.

Acts 16:39
And they came and besought them, and brought them out, and desired them to depart out of the city.

Acts 17:5
But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.

Acts 21:12
And when we heard these things, both we, and they of that place, besought him not to go up to Jerusalem.

Acts 25:2
Then the high priest and the chief of the Jews informed him against Paul, and besought him,

Acts 27:33
And while the day was coming on, Paul besought them all to take meat, saying, This day is the fourteenth day that ye have tarried and continued fasting, having taken nothing.

Rom. 9:32
Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;

Rom. 10:20
But Esaias is very bold, and saith, I was found of them that sought me not; I was made manifest unto them that asked not after me.

2 Cor. 12:8
For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.

1 Thes. 2:6
Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ.

1 Tim. 1:3
As I besought thee to abide still at Ephesus, when I went into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge some that they teach no other doctrine,

2 Tim. 1:17
But, when he was in Rome, he sought me out very diligently, and found me.

Heb. 8:7
For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.

Heb. 12:17
For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.