His parents were amazed when they saw him, and his mother said to him: "My child, why have you treated us like this? Your father and I have been searching for you in great distress."

Jesus, however, said to them: "I must take the Good News of the Kingdom of God to the other town also, for that was why I was sent."

"Why are you doing what it is not allowable to do on the Sabbath?" asked some of the Pharisees.

If you love only those who love you, what thanks will be due to you? Why, even the outcast love those who love them!

And why do you look at the straw in your brother's eye, while you pay no attention at all to the beam in your own?

Why do you call me 'Master! Master!' and yet fail to do what I tell you?

That was why I did not even venture to come to you myself; but speak, and let my manservant be cured.

"What did you go out into the Wilderness to look at? A reed waving in the wind? If not, what did you go out to see? A man dressed in rich clothing? Why, those who are accustomed to fine clothes and luxury live in royal palaces.

"Who was it that touched me?" Jesus asked; and, while everyone was denying having done so, Peter exclaimed: "Why, Sir, the people are crowding round you and pressing upon you!"

That is why the Wisdom of God said--"I will send to them Prophets and Apostles,

And Jesus said to his disciples: "That is why I say to you, Do not be anxious about the life here--what you can get to eat; nor yet about your body--what you can get to wear.

And, if you cannot do even the smallest thing, why be anxious about other things?

Why do not you yourselves decide what is right?

So he said to his gardener 'Three years now I have come to look for fruit on this fig tree, without finding any! Cut it down. Why should it rob the soil?'

Why, which of you, when he wants to build a tower, does not first sit down and reckon the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?--

"Why do you call me good?" answered Jesus. "No one is good but God.

Then why did not you put my money into a bank? And I, on my return, could have claimed it with interest.

And, if anybody asks you 'Why are you untying it?,' you are to say this--'The Master wants it.'"

While they were untying the foal, the owners asked them--"Why are you untying the foal?"

But they began arguing together: "If we say 'divine,' he will say 'Why did not you believe him?'

"Why are you asleep?" he asked them. "Rise and pray, that you may not fall into temptation."

Presently a maidservant saw him sitting near the blaze of the fire. Fixing her eyes on him, she said: "Why, this man was one of his companions!"

A little while afterwards some one else--a man--saw him and said: "Why, you are one of them!" "No," Peter said, "I am not."

About an hour later another man declared positively: "This man also was certainly with him. Why, he is a Galilean!"

At this they exclaimed: "Why do we want any more evidence? We have heard it ourselves from his own lips!"

"Why, what harm has this man done?" Pilate said to them for the third time. "I have found nothing in him for which he could be condemned to death. So I will have him scourged, and then release him."

But, when in their fear the women bowed their faces to the ground, the men said to them: "Why are you looking among the dead for him who is living?

"What things do you mean?" asked Jesus. "Why, about Jesus of Nazareth," they answered, "who, in the eyes of God and all the people, was a Prophet, whose power was felt in both his words and actions;

But Jesus said to them: "Why are you so startled? and why do doubts arise in you minds?