And why be anxious about clothing? Learn a lesson from the wild lilies. Watch their growth. They neither toil nor spin,

And why do you look at the splinter in your brother's eye, and not notice the beam which is in your own eye?

"Why are you so easily frightened," He replied, "you men of little faith?" Then He rose and reproved the winds and the waves, and there was a perfect calm;

Knowing their thoughts Jesus said, "Why are you cherishing evil thoughts in your hearts?

Why, which is easier? --to say, 'Your sins are pardoned,' or to say 'Rise up and walk'?

The Pharisees noticed this, and they inquired of His disciples, "Why does your Teacher eat with the tax-gatherers and notorious sinners?"

At that time John's disciples came and asked Jesus, "Why do we and the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not?"

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

This is why I tell you that men may find forgiveness for every other sin and impious word, but that for impious speaking against the Holy Spirit they shall find no forgiveness.

(And His disciples came and asked Him, "Why do you speak to them in figurative language?"

and he said to his courtiers, "This is John the Baptist: he has come back to life--and that is why these miraculous Powers are working in him."

Instantly Jesus stretched out His hand and caught hold of him, saying to him, "O little faith, why did you doubt?"

"Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the Elders by not washing their hands before meals?"

"Why do you, too," He retorted, "transgress God's commands for the sake of your tradition?

Jesus perceived this and said, "Why are you reasoning among yourselves, you men of little faith, because you have no bread?

Why, what benefit will it be to a man if he gains the whole world but forfeits his life? Or what shall a man give to buy back his life?

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

Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and asked Him, "Why could not we expel the demon?"

"Why then," said they, "did Moses command the husband to give her 'a written notice of divorce,' and so put her away?"

"Why do you ask me," He replied, "about what is good? There is only One who is truly good. But if you desire to enter into Life, keep the Commandments."

And going out about five o'clock he found others loitering, and he asked them, "'Why have you been standing here all day long, doing nothing?'

John's Baptism, whence was it? --had it a heavenly or a human origin?" So they debated the matter among themselves. "If we say 'a heavenly origin,'" they argued, "he will say, 'Why then did you not believe him?'

"That, I tell you, is the reason why the Kingdom of God will be taken away from you, and given to a nation that will exhibit the power of it.

Perceiving their wickedness, Jesus replied, "Why are you hypocrites trying to ensnare me?

"Blind fools! Why, which is greater? --the gold, or the Sanctuary which has made the gold holy?

"You are blind! Why, which is greater? --the offering, or the altar which makes the offering holy?

"Why, it is like a man who, when going on his travels, called his bondservants and entrusted his property to their care.

"Why such waste?" indignantly exclaimed the disciples;

But Jesus heard it, and said to them, "Why are you vexing her? For she has done a most gracious act towards me.

"Why, what crime has he committed?" asked Pilate. But they kept on furiously shouting, "Let him be crucified!"

but about three o'clock Jesus cried out in a loud voice, "Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?" that is to say, "My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken me?"