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?'

But Jesus said to them: "Let us go somewhere else, into the country towns near, that I may make my proclamation in them also; for that was why I came."

"Why does this man speak like this? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins except God?"

Jesus, at once intuitively aware that they wee debating with themselves in this way, said to them: "Why are you debating in your minds about this?

Now John's disciples and the Pharisees were keeping a fast, and people came and asked Jesus: "Why is it that John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, while yours do not?"

"Look!" the Pharisees said to him, "why are they doing what is not allowed on the Sabbath?"

"Why are you so timid?" he exclaimed. "Have you no faith yet?"

Before he had finished speaking, some people from the house of the President of the Synagogue came and said: "Your daughter is dead! Why should you trouble the Teacher further?"

"Why this confusion and weeping?" he said on entering. "The little child is not dead; she is asleep."

Now King Herod heard of Jesus; for his name had become well known. People were saying--"John the Baptizer must have risen from the dead, and that is why these miraculous powers are active in him."

Why, then you do not allow him to do anything further for his father or mother!

Sighing deeply, Jesus said: "Why does this generation ask for a sign? I tell you, no sign shall be given it."

And, noticing this, Jesus said to them: "Why are you talking about your being short of bread? Do not you yet see or understand? Are your minds still so slow or comprehension?

Why say 'possibly'?" Jesus replied. "Everything is possible for one who has faith."

When Jesus had gone indoors, his disciples asked him privately: "Why could not we drive it out?"

"Why do you call me good?" answered Jesus. "No one is good but God.

And, if any one says to you 'Why are you doing that?', say 'The Master wants it, and will be sure to send it back here at once.'"

They began arguing together; "If we say 'divine,' he will say 'Why then did not you believe him?'

Should we pay, or should we not pay?" Knowing their hypocrisy, Jesus said to them: "Why are you testing me? Bring me a florin to look at."

Some of those who were present said to one another indignantly: "Why has the perfume been wasted like this?

"Let her alone," said Jesus, as they began to find fault with her, "why are you troubling her? This is a beautiful deed that she has done for me.

At this the High Priest tore his vestments. "Why do we want any more witnesses?" he exclaimed.

And, seeing Peter warming himself, she looked closely at him, and exclaimed: "Why, you were with Jesus, the Nazarene!"

But Peter again denied it. Soon afterwards the bystanders again said to him: "You certainly are one of them; why you are a Galilean!"

"Why, what harm has he done?" Pilate kept saying to them. But they shouted furiously: "Crucify him!"

And, at three, Jesus called out loudly: ??Eloi, Eloi, lama sabacthani?'" which means 'My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?'

His parents were amazed when they saw him, and his mother said to him: "My child, why have you treated us like this? Your father and I have been searching for you in great distress."

Jesus, however, said to them: "I must take the Good News of the Kingdom of God to the other town also, for that was why I was sent."

"Why are you doing what it is not allowable to do on the Sabbath?" asked some of the Pharisees.

If you love only those who love you, what thanks will be due to you? Why, even the outcast love those who love them!

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

Why do you call me 'Master! Master!' and yet fail to do what I tell you?

That was why I did not even venture to come to you myself; but speak, and let my manservant be cured.

"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 dressed in rich clothing? Why, those who are accustomed to fine clothes and luxury live in royal palaces.

"Who was it that touched me?" Jesus asked; and, while everyone was denying having done so, Peter exclaimed: "Why, Sir, the people are crowding round you and pressing upon you!"

That is why the Wisdom of God said--"I will send to them Prophets and Apostles,

And Jesus said to his disciples: "That is why I say to you, Do not be anxious about the life here--what you can get to eat; nor yet about your body--what you can get to wear.

And, if you cannot do even the smallest thing, why be anxious about other things?

Why do not you yourselves decide what is right?

So he said to his gardener 'Three years now I have come to look for fruit on this fig tree, without finding any! Cut it down. Why should it rob the soil?'

Why, which of you, when he wants to build a tower, does not first sit down and reckon the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?--

"Why do you call me good?" answered Jesus. "No one is good but God.

Then why did not you put my money into a bank? And I, on my return, could have claimed it with interest.

And, if anybody asks you 'Why are you untying it?,' you are to say this--'The Master wants it.'"

While they were untying the foal, the owners asked them--"Why are you untying the foal?"

But they began arguing together: "If we say 'divine,' he will say 'Why did not you believe him?'

"Why are you asleep?" he asked them. "Rise and pray, that you may not fall into temptation."

Presently a maidservant saw him sitting near the blaze of the fire. Fixing her eyes on him, she said: "Why, this man was one of his companions!"

A little while afterwards some one else--a man--saw him and said: "Why, you are one of them!" "No," Peter said, "I am not."

About an hour later another man declared positively: "This man also was certainly with him. Why, he is a Galilean!"

At this they exclaimed: "Why do we want any more evidence? We have heard it ourselves from his own lips!"

"Why, what harm has this man done?" Pilate said to them for the third time. "I have found nothing in him for which he could be condemned to death. So I will have him scourged, and then release him."

But, when in their fear the women bowed their faces to the ground, the men said to them: "Why are you looking among the dead for him who is living?

"What things do you mean?" asked Jesus. "Why, about Jesus of Nazareth," they answered, "who, in the eyes of God and all the people, was a Prophet, whose power was felt in both his words and actions;

But Jesus said to them: "Why are you so startled? and why do doubts arise in you minds?

And their next question was: "Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor yet 'the Prophet'?"

At this moment his disciples came up, and were surprised to find him talking with a woman; but none of them asked 'What do you want?' or 'Why are you talking with her?'

Do not you say that it still wants four months to harvest? Why, look up, and see how white the fields are for harvest!

And that was why the Jews began to persecute Jesus--because he did things of this kind on the Sabbath.

And he added: "This is why I told you that no one can come to me, unless enabled by the Father."

Was not it Moses who gave you the Law? Yet not one of you obeys it! Why are you seeking to put me to death?"

But that is why Moses has instituted circumcision among you- -not, indeed, that it began with him, but with our ancestors--and that is why you circumcise even on a Sabbath.

When the officers returned to the Chief Priests and Pharisees, they were asked: "Why have you not brought him?"

Why, in your own Law it is said that the testimony of two persons is trustworthy.

"Who are you?" they asked. "Why ask exactly what I have been telling you?" said Jesus.

Which of you can convict me of sin? Why then do not you believe me, if I am speaking truth?

He who comes from God listens to God's teaching; the reason why you do not listen is because you do not come from God."

This was why his parents said 'He is old enough; ask him.'

"I told you just now," he answered, "and you did not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Surely you also do not want to become his disciples?"

This is why the Father loves me, because I lay down my life- -to receive it again.

Many of them said: "He is possessed by a demon and is mad; why do you listen to him?"

"Why was not this perfume sold for thirty pounds, and the money given to poor people?"