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?")

Meanwhile, the people kept waiting for Zechariah and wondering why he stayed in the sanctuary so long.

Why should this happen to me, to have the mother of my Lord visit me?

When Jesus' parents saw him, they were shocked. His mother asked him, "Son, why have you treated us like this? Your father and I have been worried sick looking for you!"

He asked them, "Why were you looking for me? Didn't you know that I had to be in my Father's house?"

Because Jesus knew that they were arguing, he asked them, "Why are you arguing about this among yourselves?

The Pharisees and their scribes started complaining to Jesus' disciples, "Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?"

Some of the Pharisees asked, "Why are you doing what isn't lawful on Sabbath days?"

"If you love those who love you, what thanks do you deserve? Why, even sinners love those who love them.

"Why do you see the speck in your brother's eye but fail to notice the beam in your own eye?

"Why do you keep calling me "Lord, Lord,' but don't do what I tell you?

That's why I didn't presume to come to you. But just say the word, and let my servant be healed,

So I'm telling you that her sins, as many as they are, have been forgiven, and that's why she has shown such great love. But the one to whom little is forgiven loves little."

When the woman saw that she couldn't hide, she came forward trembling. Bowing down in front of him, she explained in the presence of all the people why she had touched Jesus and how she had been instantly healed.

If I drive out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your own followers drive them out? That is why they will be your judges!

That is why the Wisdom of God said, "I will send them prophets and apostles. They will kill some of them and persecute others,'

Why, even all the hairs on your head have been counted! Stop being afraid. You are worth more than a bunch of sparrows."

Then Jesus told his disciples, "That's why I'm telling you to stop worrying about your life what you will eat or about your body what you will wear,

So if you can't do a small thing like that, why worry about other things?

"Why don't you judge for yourselves what is right?

So he told the gardener, "Look here! For three years I've been coming to look for fruit on this tree but I haven't found any. Cut it down! Why should it waste the soil?'

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

Then why didn't you put my money in the bank? When I returned, I could have collected it with interest.'

If anyone asks you why you are untying it, say this: "The Lord needs it.'"

While they were untying the colt, its owners asked them, "Why are you untying the colt?"

They discussed this among themselves: "If we say, "From heaven,' he will ask, "Then why didn't you believe him?'

He asked them, "Why are you sleeping? Get up and keep on praying that you may not be tempted."

"Why do we need any more testimony?" they asked. "We have heard it ourselves from his own mouth!"

While the women remained terrified, bowing their faces to the ground, the men asked them, "Why are you looking among the dead for someone who is living?

But Jesus told them, "What's frightening you? And why are you doubting?

They asked him, "Why, then, are you baptizing if you are not the Messiah, or Elijah, or the Prophet?"

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.

At this point his disciples arrived, and they were astonished that he was talking to a woman. Yet no one said, "What do you want from her?" or, "Why are you talking to her?"

So he said, "That's why I told you that no one can come to me unless it be granted him by the Father."

Moses gave you the Law, didn't he? Yet none of you is keeping the Law. Why are you trying to kill me?"

Then the officers returned to the high priests and Pharisees, who asked them, "Why didn't you bring him?"

So the Jewish leaders were asking, "He isn't going to kill himself, is he? Is that why he said, "You cannot come where I'm going'?"

That is why I told you that you will die in your sins, for unless you believe that I AM, you'll die in your sins."

Why don't you understand what I've said? It's because you can't listen to my words.

Can any of you prove me guilty of sin? If I'm telling the truth, why don't you believe me?

That's why his parents said, "He is of age. Ask him."

He answered them, "I've already told you, but you didn't listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You don't want to become his disciples, too, do you?"

This is why the Father loves me, because I lay down my life in order to take it back again.

Many of them were saying, "He has a demon and is insane. Why bother listening to 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 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!"

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

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?"

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."

They asked, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up toward heaven? This same Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you saw him go up into heaven."

That is why my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices, yes, even my body still rests securely in hope.

When Peter saw this, he told the people: "Fellow Israelis, why are you wondering about this, and why are you staring at us as if by our own power or godliness we made him walk?

You said by the Holy Spirit through the voice of our ancestor, your servant David, "Why do the unbelievers rage, and the people devise useless plots?

Peter asked, "Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart so that you should lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back some of the money you got for the land?

The next day, he presented himself to some of them while they were fighting and tried to reconcile them. He said, "Men, you are brothers. Why should you be hurting another?'

He dropped to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul! Why are you persecuting me?"

So Peter went to the men and said, "I'm the man you're looking for. Why are you here?"

and that is why I didn't hesitate when I was sent for. Now may I ask why you sent for me?"

"Men, why are you doing this? We are merely human beings with natures like yours. We are telling you the good news so you'll turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them.

So why do you test God by putting on the disciples' neck a yoke that neither our ancestors nor we could carry?

Meanwhile, some were shouting one thing and some another, since the crowd was confused, and most of them didn't know why they were meeting.

I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, "Saul! Saul! Why are you persecuting me?'

the tribune ordered Paul to be taken into the barracks and told the soldiers to beat and question him in order to find out why the people were yelling at him like this.

Why is it thought incredible by all of you that God should raise the dead?

"All of us fell to the ground, and I heard a voice asking me in the Hebrew language, "Saul! Saul! Why are you persecuting me? It is hurting you to keep on kicking against the cattle prods.'

That's why I asked to see you and speak with you, since it is for the hope of Israel that I'm wearing this chain."

That is why I am so eager to proclaim the gospel to you who live in Rome, too.

For if through my falsehood God's truthfulness glorifies him even more, why am I still being condemned as a sinner?

This is why "it was credited to him as righteousness."

That is why the mind that focuses on human nature is hostile toward God. It refuses to submit to the authority of God's Law because it is powerless to do so.

You may ask me, "Then why does God still find fault with anybody? For who can resist his will?"

On the contrary, who are you mere man that you are to talk back to God? Can an object that was molded say to the one who molded it, "Why did you make me like this?"

Why not? Because they did not pursue it on the basis of faith, but as if it were based on achievements. They stumbled over the stone that causes people to stumble.

This is also why you pay taxes. For rulers are God's servants faithfully devoting themselves to their work.

Why, then, do you criticize your brother? Or why do you despise your brother? For all of us will stand before the judgment seat of God.

so that the gentiles may glorify God for his mercy. As it is written, "That is why I will praise you among the gentiles; I will sing praises to your name."

This is why I have so often been hindered from coming to you.

For who makes you superior? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not receive it?

That's why I sent Timothy to you. He is my dear and dependable son in the Lord and will help you remember how I live for the Messiah Jesus as I teach everywhere in every church.

So if you have cases dealing with this life, why do you appoint as judges people who have no standing in the church?

The very fact that you have lawsuits among yourselves is already a defeat for you. Why not rather just accept the wrong? Why not rather be cheated?

I mean, of course, his conscience, not yours. For why should my freedom be determined by someone else's conscience?

If I eat with thankfulness, why should I be denounced because of what I am thankful for?

This is why a woman should have authority over her own head: because of the angels.

That's why so many of you are weak and sick and a considerable number are dying.