But John tried to prevent him. "It is I," he said, "who need to be baptized by you; why then do you come to me?"

That is why I say to you, Do not be anxious about your life here--what you can get to eat or drink; nor yet about your body-- what you can get to wear. Is not life more than food, and the body than its clothing?

And why be anxious about clothing? Study the wild lilies, and how they grow. They neither toil nor spin;

And why do you look at the straw in your brother's eye, while you pay no attention at all to the beam in yours?

"Why are you so timid?" he said. "O men of little faith!" Then Jesus rose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and a great calm followed.

Knowing their thoughts, Jesus exclaimed: "Why do your cherish such wicked thoughts?

When the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples: "Why does your Teacher eat in the company of tax-gatherers and outcasts?"

Then John's disciples came to Jesus, and asked: "Why do we and the Pharisees fast while your disciples do not?"

"What did you go out into the Wilderness to look at? A reed waving in the wind? If not, what did you go out to see? A man richly dressed? Why, those who wear rich things are to be found in the courts of kings!

Afterwards his disciples came to him, and said: "Why do you speak to them in parables?"

That is why I speak to them in parables, because, though they have eyes, they do not see, and though they have ears, they do not hear or understand.

And said to his attendants: " This must be John the Baptist; he must be risen from the dead, and that is why these miraculous powers are active in him."

Instantly Jesus stretched out his hand, and caught hold of him. "O man of little faith!" he said, "Why did you falter?"

On noticing this, Jesus said: "Why are you talking among yourselves about your being short of bread, O men of little faith?

Afterwards the disciples came up to Jesus, and asked him privately: "Why was it that we could not drive it out?"

"Why, then," they said, "did Moses direct that a man should 'serve his wife with a notice of separation and divorce her'?"

"Why ask me about goodness?" answered Jesus. "There is but One who is good. If you want to enter the Life, keep the commandments."

When he went out about five, he found some other men standing there, and said to them 'Why have you been standing here all day long, doing nothing?'

It is about John's baptism. What was its origin? divine or human?" But they began arguing among themselves: "If we say 'divine,' he will say to us 'Why then did not you believe him?'

And that, I tell you, is why the Kingdom of God will be taken from you, and given to a nation that does produce the fruit of the Kingdom.

Perceiving their malice, Jesus answered: "Why are you testing me, you hypocrites?

That is why I send you Prophets, wise men, and Teachers of the Law, some of whom you will crucify and kill, and some of whom you will scourge in your Synagogues, and persecute from town to town;

"Why are you troubling the woman?" Jesus said, when he noticed it. "For this is a beautiful deed that she has done to me.

Then the High Priest tore his robes. "This is blasphemy!" he exclaimed. "Why do we want any more witnesses? You have just heard his blasphemy!

Peter, meanwhile, was sitting outside in the courtyard; and a maidservant came up to him, and exclaimed: "Why, you were with Jesus the Galilean!"

But soon afterwards those who were standing by came up and said to Peter: "You also are certainly one of them; why, your very way of speaking proves it!"

And that is why that field is called the 'Field of Blood' to this very day.

"Why, what harm has he done?" he asked. But they kept shouting furiously: "Let him be crucified!"

And about three Jesus called out loudly: "Eloi, Eloi, lema sabacthani"--that is to say, 'O my God, my God, why has thou forsaken me?'