"Why be anxious then about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They toil not, neither do they spin.

"And why do you look at the mote in your brother's eye, and fail to notice the beam which is in your own eye?

"Why are you afraid?" he said, "you men of little faith!" Then he rose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there came a great calm.

"Why do you think evil in your hearts? For which is easier, to say 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, 'Rise and walk'?

When the Pharisees saw it, they kept saying to his disciples, "Why does your Teacher eat with the tax-gatherers and sinners?"

At that time the disciples of John came and asked him, "Why are we and the Pharisees always fasting, while your disciples are not?"

"But why did you go? To see a prophet? I tell you, yes, and more than a prophet;

"Why do you speak to them in parables?" Jesus answered. "To you it has been granted to understand the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven; but to them it has not been granted.

"This is why I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.

"This man is John the Baptist; he is risen from the dead. That is why miraculous powers are working through him."

"Why do your disciples keep transgressing the tradition of the elders by not washing their hands before eating?"

"And why do you also keep transgressing the command of God by your tradition?" he asked.

When Jesus knew it he said: "Weaklings in faith! Why are you arguing among yourselves, because you have no bread?

And his disciples asked him, saying, "Why then do the Scribes say that Elijah must first come?"

Thereupon Jesus' disciples came to him and asked him privately, "Why were we not able to cast it out?"

They answered, "Why then did Moses command the husband to give her 'a written bill of divorce,' and so to put her away?"

"Why do you ask me about what is good?" asked Jesus. "There is but One who is good. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments."

"When he went out about five o'clock, he found others standing around, and said to them, "'Why have you been standing here idle, all the day long?'

"If we say, 'From heaven,' he will ask us, 'Why then did you not believe him?' But if we say, 'From men,' we are afraid of the crowd, for they all regard John as a prophet."

"Hypocrites! Why are you tempting me? Show me the tribute money." So they brought him a shilling.

"Why is this waste? This perfume could have been sold for a good sum, and the money given to the poor."

But when Jesus understood it he said to them. "Why are you annoying the woman? This is a beautiful deed she has done for me;

That is the reason why, to this day, the field is called "The Field of Blood."

But Pilate said, "Why, what evil has he done?" But they kept shouting the more fiercely, "Let him be crucified!"

But at three o'clock Jesus cried out in loud voice, "Eli, Eli, Lama Sabachthani?" (That is to say, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?")