Why

“Why does this man speak like this? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?”

At once Jesus knew in His spirit that they were thinking this way within themselves. “Why are you thinking these things in your hearts?” He asked.

When the scribes who were Pharisees saw Jesus eating with these people, they asked His disciples, “Why does He eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

Now John’s disciples and the Pharisees were often fasting. So people came to Jesus and asked, “Why don’t Your disciples fast like John’s disciples and those of the Pharisees?”

So the Pharisees said to Him, “Look, why are they doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath?”

“Why are you so afraid?” He asked. “Do you still have no faith?”

While He was still speaking, messengers from the house of Jairus arrived and said, “Your daughter is dead; why bother the Teacher anymore?”

He went inside and asked, “Why all this commotion and weeping? The child is not dead, but asleep.”

Now King Herod heard about this, for Jesus’ name had become well known, and people were saying, “John the Baptist has risen from the dead! That is why miraculous powers are at work in him.”

So the Pharisees and scribes questioned Jesus: “Why do Your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders? Instead, they eat with defiled hands.”

Jesus sighed deeply in His spirit and said, “Why does this generation demand a sign? Truly I tell you, no sign will be given to this generation.”

Aware of their conversation, Jesus asked them, “Why are you debating about having no bread? Do you still not see or understand? Do you have such hard hearts?

And they asked Jesus, “Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”

He replied, “Elijah does indeed come first, and he restores all things. Why then is it written that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected?

After Jesus had gone into the house, His disciples asked Him privately, “Why couldn’t we drive it out?”

“Why do you call Me good?” Jesus replied. “No one is good except God alone.

If anyone asks, ‘Why are you doing this?’ tell him, ‘The Lord needs it and will return it shortly.’”

…and some who were standing there asked, “Why are you untying the colt?”

They deliberated among themselves what they should answer: “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ He will ask, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’

But Jesus saw through their hypocrisy and said, “Why are you testing Me? Bring Me a denarius to inspect.”

Some of those present, however, expressed their indignation to one another: “Why this waste of perfume?

But Jesus said, “Leave her alone; why are you bothering her? She has done a beautiful deed to Me.

At this, the high priest tore his clothes and declared, “Why do we need any more witnesses?

“Why?” asked Pilate. “What evil has He done?” But they shouted all the louder, “Crucify Him!”

At the ninth hour, Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”

Meanwhile, the people were waiting for Zechariah and wondering why he took so long in the temple.

And why am I so honored, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?

When His parents saw Him, they were astonished. “Child, why have You done this to us?” His mother asked. “Your father and I have been anxiously searching for You.”

“Why were you looking for Me?” He asked. “Did you not know that I had to be in My Father’s house?”

But Jesus told them, “I must preach the good news of the kingdom of God to the other towns as well, because that is why I was sent.”

Knowing what they were thinking, Jesus replied, “Why are you thinking these things in your hearts?

But the Pharisees and their scribes complained to Jesus’ disciples, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”

But some of the Pharisees asked, “Why are you doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath?”

Why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye but fail to notice the beam in your own eye?

Why do you call Me ‘Lord, Lord,’ but do not do what I say?

That is why I did not consider myself worthy to come to You. But just say the word, and my servant will be healed.

Then the woman, seeing that she could not escape notice, came trembling and fell down before Him. In the presence of all the people, she explained why she had touched Him and how she had immediately been healed.

So if you cannot do such a small thing, why do you worry about the rest?

You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and sky. Why don’t you know how to interpret the present time?

And why don’t you judge for yourselves what is right?

So he said to the keeper of the vineyard, ‘Look, for the past three years I have come to search for fruit on this fig tree and haven’t found any. Therefore cut it down! Why should it use up the soil?’

“Why do you call Me good?” Jesus replied. “No one is good except God alone.

Why then did you not deposit my money in the bank, and upon my return I could have collected it with interest?’

If anyone asks, ‘Why are you untying it?’ tell him, ‘The Lord needs it.’”

As they were untying the colt, its owners asked, “Why are you untying the colt?”

They deliberated among themselves and said, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ He will ask, ‘Why did you not believe him?’

“Why are you sleeping?” He asked. “Get up and pray so that you will not enter into temptation.”

“Why do we need any more testimony?” they declared. “We have heard it for ourselves from His own lips.”

As the women bowed their faces to the ground in terror, the two men asked them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead?

“Why are you troubled,” Jesus asked, “and why do doubts arise in your hearts?

“Why are you troubled,” Jesus asked, “and why do doubts arise in your hearts?

…asked him, “Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”

Just then His disciples returned and were surprised that He was speaking with a woman. But no one asked Him, “What do You want from her?” or “Why are You talking with her?”

Then Jesus said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to Me unless the Father has granted it to him.”

Has not Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps it. Why are you trying to kill Me?”

If a boy can be circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses will not be broken, why are you angry with Me for making the whole man well on the Sabbath?

Then the officers returned to the chief priests and Pharisees, who asked them, “Why didn’t you bring Him in?”

That is why I told you that you would die in your sins. For unless you believe that I am He, you will die in your sins.”

Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you are unable to accept My message.

Which of you can prove Me guilty of sin? If I speak the truth, why do you not believe Me?

That was why his parents said, “He is old enough. Ask him.”

He replied, “I already told you, and you did not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you also want to become His disciples?”

Many of them said, “He is demon-possessed and insane. Why would you listen to Him?”

“Why wasn’t this perfume sold for three hundred denarii and the money given to the poor?”

That is also why the crowd went out to meet Him, because they heard that He had performed this sign.

For He knew who would betray Him. That is why He said, “Not all of you are clean.”

But no one at the table knew why Jesus had said this to him.

“Lord,” said Peter, “why can’t I follow You now? I will lay down my life for You.”

Judas (not Iscariot) asked Him, “Lord, why are You going to reveal Yourself to us and not to the world?”

Everything that belongs to the Father is Mine. That is why I said that the Spirit will take from what is Mine and disclose it to you.

Then some of His disciples asked one another, “Why is He telling us, ‘In a little while you will not see Me, and then after a little while you will see Me’ and ‘Because I am going to the Father’?”

They kept asking, “Why is He saying, ‘a little while’? We do not understand what He is saying.”

Aware that they wanted to question Him, Jesus said to them, “Are you asking one another why I said, ‘In a little while you will not see Me, and then after a little while you will see Me’?

Why are you asking Me? Ask those who heard My message. Surely they know what I said.”

Jesus replied, “If I said something wrong, testify as to what was wrong. But if I spoke correctly, why did you strike Me?”

“Woman, why are you weeping?” they asked. “Because they have taken my Lord away,” she said, “and I do not know where they have put Him.”

“Woman, why are you weeping?” Jesus asked. “Whom are you seeking?” Thinking He was the gardener, she said, “Sir, if you have carried Him off, tell me where you have put Him, and I will get Him.”

“Men of Galilee,” they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen Him go into heaven.”

And when Peter saw this, he addressed the people: “Men of Israel, why are you surprised by this? Why do you stare at us as if by our own power or godliness we had made this man walk?

And when Peter saw this, he addressed the people: “Men of Israel, why are you surprised by this? Why do you stare at us as if by our own power or godliness we had made this man walk?

You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of Your servant, our father David: ‘Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?

The next day he came upon two Israelites who were fighting, and he tried to reconcile them, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers. Why are you mistreating each other?’

He fell to the ground and heard a voice say to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me?”

So Peter went down to the men and said, “Here am I, the one you are looking for. Why have you come?”

So when I was invited, I came without objection. I ask, then, why have you sent for me?”

“Men, why are you doing this? We too are only men, human like you. We are bringing you good news that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made heaven and earth and sea and everything in them.

Now then, why do you test God by placing on the necks of the disciples a yoke that neither we nor our fathers have been able to bear?

Meanwhile the assembly was in turmoil. Some were shouting one thing and some another, and most of them did not even know why they were there.

Then Paul answered, “Why are you weeping and breaking my heart? I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”

I fell to the ground and heard a voice say to me, ‘Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me?’

Why would any of you consider it incredible that God raises the dead?

We all fell to the ground, and I heard a voice say to me in Hebrew, ‘Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’

That is why I am so eager to preach the gospel also to you who are in Rome.

However, if my falsehood accentuates God’s truthfulness, to the increase of His glory, why am I still condemned as a sinner?

Why not say, as some slanderously claim that we say, “Let us do evil that good may result”? Their condemnation is deserved!

This is why “it was credited to him as righteousness.”

One of you will say to me, “Then why does God still find fault? For who can resist His will?”

But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to Him who formed it, “Why did You make me like this?”

Why not? Because their pursuit was not by faith, but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,

This is also why you pay taxes. For the authorities are God’s servants, who devote themselves to their work.