"Let's go to the neighboring town," he replied, "so I can preach there, too, because that's why I came."

"Why does this man talk this way? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?"

At once, Jesus knew in his spirit what they were saying to themselves. "Why are you arguing about such things among yourselves?" he asked them.

When the scribes and the Pharisees saw him eating with sinners and tax collectors, they asked his disciples, "Why does he eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?"

Now John's disciples and the Pharisees would fast regularly. Some people came and asked Jesus, "Why do John's disciples and the Pharisees' disciples fast, but your disciples don't fast?"

The Pharisees asked him, "Look! Why are they doing what is not lawful on Sabbath days?"

He asked them, "Why are you such cowards? Don't you have any faith yet?"

While he was still speaking, some people came from the synagogue leader's home and said, "Your daughter is dead. Why bother the Teacher anymore?"

He entered the house and asked them, "Why all this confusion and crying? The child isn't dead. She's sleeping."

King Herod heard about this, because Jesus' name had become well-known. He was saying, "John the Baptist has been raised from the dead! That's why he is able to do these miracles."

So the Pharisees and the scribes asked Jesus, "Why don't your disciples live according to the tradition of the elders? Instead, they eat with unclean hands."

He sighed deeply in his spirit and remarked, "Why do those living today demand a sign? I tell all of you with certainty, no sign will be given to this generation."

Knowing this, Jesus asked them, "Why are you discussing the fact that you don't have any bread? Don't you understand or perceive yet? Are your hearts hardened?

He told them, "Elijah is indeed coming first and will restore all things. Why, then, is it written that the Son of Man must suffer a great deal and be treated shamefully?

When Jesus came home, his disciples asked him privately, "Why couldn't we drive the spirit out?"

That's why "a man will leave his father and mother and be united with his wife,

"Why do you call me good?" Jesus asked him. "Nobody is good except for one God.

If anyone asks you, "Why are you doing this?,' say, "The Lord needs it,' and he will send it back here at once."

That is why I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it and it will be yours.

They began discussing this among themselves. "If we say, "From heaven,' he'll say, "Then why didn't you believe him?'

Seeing through their hypocrisy, Jesus replied to them, "Why are you testing me? Bring me a denarius and let me look at it."

Irritated, some who were there asked one another, "Why was the perfume wasted like this?

But Jesus said, "Leave her alone. Why are you bothering her? She has done a beautiful thing for me,

Then the high priest tore his clothes. "Why do we still need witnesses?" he asked.

"Why?" Pilate asked them. "What has he done wrong?" But they shouted even louder, "Crucify him!"

At three o'clock, Jesus cried out with a loud voice, "Eloi, eloi, lema sabachthani?" (which means, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?")