When they saw Him, they were overwhelmed; and His mother said to Him, “Son, why have You treated us like this? Listen, Your father and I have been [greatly distressed and] anxiously looking for You.”

But Jesus, knowing their [hostile] thoughts, answered them, “Why are you questioning [these things] in your hearts?

The Pharisees and their scribes [seeing those with whom He was associating] began murmuring in discontent to His disciples, asking, “Why are you eating and drinking with the tax collectors and sinners [including non-observant Jews]?”

But some of the Pharisees said, “Why are you doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath?”

Why do you look at the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice or consider the log that is in your own eye?

“Why do you call Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not practice what I tell you?

And He said to them, “Where is your faith [your confidence in Me]?” They were afraid and astonished, saying to one another, “Who then is this, that He commands even the winds and the sea, and they obey Him?”

So if you are not even able to do a very little thing [such as that], why are you worried about the rest?

“And why do you not even on your own initiative judge what is right?

so he said to the vineyard-keeper, ‘For three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree and have found none. Cut it down! Why does it even use up the ground [depleting the soil and blocking the sunlight]?’

Jesus said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is [essentially and morally] good except God alone.

Then why did you not [at the very least] put my money in a bank? Then on my return, I would have collected it with interest.’

If anybody asks you, ‘Why are you untying the colt?’ you will say, ‘The Lord needs it.’”

As they were untying the colt, its owners asked them, “Why are you untying the colt?”

They discussed and debated it among themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ He will say, ‘Why did you not believe him?’

and He said to them, “Why are you sleeping? Get up and pray that you may not fall into temptation.”

A third time he said to them, “Why, what wrong has He done? I have found no guilt [no crime, no offense] in Him demanding death; therefore I will punish Him [to teach Him a lesson] and release Him.”

and as the women were terrified and were bowing their faces to the ground, the men said to them, “Why are you looking for the living One among the dead?

And He said, “Why are you troubled, and why are doubts rising in your hearts?