And why should you trouble over clothing? Look how the lilies of the field grow; they neither toil nor spin,

Why do you note the splinter in your brother's eye and fail to see the plank in your own eye?

Why, which of you, when asked by his son for a loaf, will hand him a stone?

He said to them, "Why are you afraid? How little you trust God!" Then he got up and checked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm.

Jesus saw what they were thinking and said, "Why do you think evil in your hearts?

So when the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with taxgatherers and sinners?"

Then the disciples of John came up to him and said, "Why do we and the Pharisees fast a great deal, and your disciples do not fast?"

Come, why did you go out? To see a prophet? Yes, I tell you, and far more than a prophet.

Why, how can anyone enter the strong man's house and plunder his goods, unless he first of all binds the strong man? Then he can plunder his house.

Then the disciples came up and said to him, "Why do you speak in parables?"

This is why I speak to them in parables, because for all their seeing they do not see and for all their hearing they do not hear or understand.

And he said to his servants, "This is John the Baptist; he has risen from the dead. That is why miraculous powers are working through him."

Jesus at once stretched his hand out and caught him, saying, "How little you trust me! Why did you doubt?"

"Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? They do not wash their hands when they take their food."

He replied, "And why do you transgress the command of God with your traditions?

When Jesus noted this he said, "How little trust you have in me! Why all this talk, because you have brought no bread?

Why do you not see that I was not speaking to you about bread? No, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees."

The disciples inquired of him, "Then why do the scribes say that Elijah has to come first?"

Then the disciples came to Jesus in private and said, "Why could we not cast it out?"

That is why the Realm of heaven may be compared to a king who resolved to settle accounts with his servants.

They said to him, "Then why did Moses lay it down that we were to divorce by giving a separation-notice?"

He said to him, "Why do you ask me about what is good? One alone is good. But if you want to get into Life, keep the commands."

And when he went out at five o'clock he came upon some others who were standing; he said to them, 'Why have you stood doing nothing all the day?'

Where did the baptism of John come from? From heaven or from men?" Now they argued to themselves, "If we say, 'From heaven,' he will say to us, 'Then why did you not believe him?'

But Jesus detected their malice. He said, "Why do you tempt me, you hypocrites?

This is why I will send you prophets, wise men, and scribes, some of whom you will kill and crucify, some of whom you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from town to town;

But Jesus was aware of what they said, and he replied, "Why are you annoying the woman? It is a beautiful thing she has done to me.

After a little the bystanders came up and said to Peter, "To be sure, you are one of them too. Why, your accent betrays you!"

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

"Why," said the governor, "what has he done wrong?" But they shouted on more fiercely than ever, "Have him crucified!"

and about three o'clock Jesus gave a loud cry, "Eli, eli, lema sabachthani" (that is, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?)