and said to them, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up into the sky? This very Jesus who has been caught up from you into heaven will come in just the way that you have seen him go up to heaven."

When Peter saw this, he said to the people. "Men of Israel, why are you so surprised at this? Why do you stare so at us, as though it were some power or some piety of ours that had made him able to walk?

Why, all the prophets from Samuel down, who have spoken, have also foretold these days.

and who said through the holy Spirit by the lips of our forefather David, your slave, " 'Why did the heathen rage, And the peoples form vain designs?

And Peter said, "Ananias, why has Satan taken such possession of your heart that you should lie to the holy Spirit, by appropriating part of the price of your land?

The next day, he came across two of them fighting and tried to pacify them. He said to them, 'You are brothers. Why should you injure each other?'

"Why, how can I," he answered, "unless someone explains it to me?" And he invited Philip to get in and sit beside him.

and he fell to the ground. Then he heard a voice saying to him, "Saul! Saul! Why do you persecute me?"

That was why, when I was sent for, I came without any hesitation. And now I want to ask why you sent for me."

and shouting, "Friends, why are you doing this? We are only human beings like you, and we bring you the good news that you should turn from these follies to a living God, who made heaven and earth and sea and all that they contain.

Then why do you now try to test God, by putting on the necks of these disciples a yoke that neither our forefathers nor we have been able to bear?

Why, we believe that it is by the mercy of the Lord Jesus that we are saved just as they are."

Meanwhile the people were shouting, some one thing and some another, for the meeting was in confusion, and most of them had no idea why they had come together.

and I fell upon the ground and heard a voice say to me, 'Saul! Saul! Why do you persecute me?'

And now, why do you delay? Get up and be baptized, and wash out your sins, calling on his name.'

the colonel ordered Paul brought into the barracks, and gave directions that he should be examined under the lash, so that he might find out why they made such an outcry against him.

The next day, as he wished to find out the real reason why the Jews denounced him, he had him unbound and ordered the high priests and the whole council to assemble, and took Paul down and brought him before them.

Why do you all think it incredible that God should raise 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? You cannot kick against the goad!'

That is why the Jews seized me in the Temple and tried to kill me.

That is why I asked to see you and speak with you, for it is on account of Israel's hope that I have to wear this chain."