And they questioned him, and said to him, Why then dost thou baptise, if thou be not the Messiah, nor Elias, nor that prophet?

I did not yet know Him; but that He may be openly shown to Israel is the reason why I have come baptizing in water."

Jesus replied, "Woman, why are you saying this to me? My time has not yet come."

It is the bridegroom who gets the bride, yet the bridegroom's friend, who merely stands by and listens for him, is overjoyed to hear the bridegroom's voice. That's why this joy of mine is now complete.

The woman of Samaria said to him, Why do you, a Jew, make a request for water to me, a woman of Samaria? She said this because Jews have nothing to do with the people of Samaria.

Just then His disciples came up, and they were surprised to find Him talking with a woman, yet not one of them asked Him, "What do you want?" or "Why are you talking with her?"

Do not you say that it still wants four months to harvest? Why, look up, and see how white the fields are for harvest!

And that was why the Jews began to persecute Jesus--because he did things of this kind on the Sabbath.

This is why the Jews began trying all the more to kill Him: Not only was He breaking the Sabbath, but He was even calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.

You do not have His word (Scripture) abiding in you [actually living in your hearts and minds], because you do not believe in Him whom He has sent.

And he said, This is why I said to you, No man is able to come to me if he is not given the power to do so by the Father.

Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you doeth the law? Why seek ye to kill me?

Yet none of you keepeth the law. Why seek ye to kill me? The people answered and said, Thou hast a devil. Who seeketh to kill thee?

But that is why Moses has instituted circumcision among you- -not, indeed, that it began with him, but with our ancestors--and that is why you circumcise even on a Sabbath.

If a child is given circumcision on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses may not be broken, why are you angry with me because I made a man completely well on the Sabbath?

others said, 'This is the Christ;' and others said, 'Why, out of Galilee doth the Christ come?

The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said unto them, Why did ye not bring him?

Why, in your own Law it is said that the testimony of two persons is trustworthy.

So the Jews said, Will he take his life? Is that why he says, Where I go it is not possible for you to come?

"That is why I said that you would die in your sins. For if you do not believe that I am He, you will die in your sins."

So they said to Him, “Who are You [anyway]?” Jesus replied, “What have I been saying to you from the beginning?

"Why do I even talk to you at all? I have a great deal to say about you and to condemn in you, yet he who sent me is truthful, and the things that I say to the world are things that I have learned from him."

They said to him in answer, We are Abraham's seed and have never been any man's servant: why do you say, You will become free?

Why do ye not understand my speech? Even because ye cannot hear my word.

Which of you convicteth me of sin? If I say truth, why do ye not believe me?

He who comes from God listens to God's teaching; the reason why you do not listen is because you do not come from God."

That was the reason why they said, He is old enough; put the question to him.

He answered them, I have told you already, and you did not hear; why do you wish to hear again? Do you also wish to be his disciples?

The man answered and said unto them, Why, herein is the marvel, that ye know not whence he is, and yet he opened mine eyes.

This is why the Father loves me -- because I lay down my life, so that I may take it back again.

and many of them said, 'He hath a demon, and is mad, why do ye hear him?'

"Why wasn't this perfume sold for 300 denarii and the money given to the destitute?"

since he was the reason why so many of the Jews were leaving to believe in Jesus.

This is why the crowd went out to meet Him, because they had heard that He had performed this wonder-work.

So the Pharisees said to one another: "You see that you are gaining nothing! Why, all the world has run after him!"

“Now My soul is troubled. What should I say—Father, save Me from this hour? But that is why I came to this hour.

Upon which the people said to him, we have learnt from the law, that the Messiah is to live for ever: why do you say then, the son of man must be lift up? who is this son of man?

This is why they could not believe: Isaiah also said,

For he knew who was going to betray him. That's why he said, "Not all of you are clean."

Now no one at the table knew why Jesus said this to him.

"Lord, why can't I follow you now?" Peter asked him. "I would lay down my life for you!"

Jesus said to him, Philip, have I been with you all this time, and still you have no knowledge of me? He who has seen me has seen the Father. Why do you say, Let us see the Father?

Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, why Lord, will you show your self to us, and not to the world?

If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own. Because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world--that is why the world hates you.

They will exclude you from their synagogues; why, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is doing religious service to God.

All that the Father has is mine. That is why I said, "He will take what is mine and declare it to you.'

Jesus saw that they had a desire to put the question to him, so he said to them, Is this what you are questioning one with another, why I said, After a little time, you will see me no longer; and then again, after a little time, you will see me?

His disciples said, " Why, now you are talking plainly and not speaking figuratively at all.

Why, a time is coming??t has already come!??hen you will all be scattered to your homes and will leave me alone. And yet I am not alone, for the Father is with me.

Jesus answered him, I spake openly to the world, I always taught in the synagogue and in the temple, whither the Jews are continually resorting: and in secret have said nothing. Why dost thou ask me?

Why do you question me? Question those who heard what I said. These are the people who know what I said."

Jesus answered him, "If I have said anything wrong, tell me what it was. But if I have told the truth, why do you hit me?"

So Pilate said to Him, “Then You are a King?” Jesus answered, “You say [correctly] that I am a King. This is why I was born, and for this I have come into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth [who is a friend of the truth and belongs to the truth] hears and listens carefully to My voice.”

Jesus answered him, "You have no authority over me at all, except what was given to you from above. That's why the one who handed me over to you is guilty of a greater sin."

They asked her, "Lady, why are you crying?" She told them, "Because they have taken away my Lord, and I don't know where they have put him."

Jesus asked her, "Dear lady, why are you crying? Who are you looking for?" Thinking he was the gardener, she told him, "Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will take him away."

Then after breakfast Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love me more than the others do?" "Why, Lord," he said, "you know I love you." "Then feed my lambs," said Jesus.

Again he asked him, for the second time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" "Why, Lord," he said, "you know I love you." "Then be a shepherd to my sheep," said Jesus.