they answered him, we are Abraham's offspring, and were never slaves to any man: why then do you say, "ye shall be made 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?

The one who is from God listens to God’s words. This is why you don’t listen, because you are not from God.”

This is why his parents said, “He’s of age; ask him.”

I have already told you that, said he, and did you not hear it? why would ye hear it over again? have you likewise a mind 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 am laying down My life so I may take it up again.

for many of them said, he is possess'd with a demon, and is mad; why do you mind him?

said, why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, to be given to the poor?

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

This is also why the crowd met Him, because they heard He had done this sign.

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 were unable to believe, because Isaiah also said:

For He knew who would betray Him. This is why He said, “You are not all clean.”

None of those reclining at the table knew why He told him this.

Peter said to him, Lord, why can't I follow you now? I will lay down my life for your sake.

Jesus said to him, have I been with you so long, and don't you know me yet? Philip, he that hath seen me, hath seen the father; why then do you say, shew us 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 [you as] its own people. But since you do not belong to the world, for I chose you out of it, 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.

Everything the Father has is Mine. This is why I told you that He takes from what is Mine and will 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 me dost thou question? question those having heard what I spake to them; lo, these have known what I said.'

Jesus answered him, 'If I spake ill, testify concerning the ill; and if well, why me dost thou smite?'

"So you are a king?" said Pilate, "you!" "Certainly," said Jesus, "I am a king. This is why I was born, this is why I came into the world, to bear testimony to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice."

“You would have no authority over Me at all,” Jesus answered him, “if it hadn’t been given you from above. This is why the one who handed Me over to you has the greater sin.”

And they say to her, 'Woman, why dost thou weep?' she saith to them, 'Because they took away my Lord, and I have not known where they laid him;'

Jesus saith to her, 'Woman, why dost thou weep? whom dost thou seek;' she, supposing that he is the gardener, saith to him, 'Sir, if thou didst carry him away, tell me where thou didst lay 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.

They said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up into heaven? This Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come in the same way that you have seen Him going into heaven.”

They were amazed and astonished, saying, “Why, are not all these who are speaking Galileans?

these men are not drunk, as you imagine. Why, it is only nine in the morning!

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 addressed the people: “Men of Israel, why are you amazed at this? Or why do you stare at us, as though we had made him walk by our own power or godliness?

Why, all the prophets from Samuel down, who have spoken, have also foretold these days.

You said through the Holy Spirit, by the mouth of our father David Your servant:

Why did the Gentiles rage
and the peoples plot futile things?

Then Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back part of the proceeds from the field?

Wasn’t it yours while you possessed it? And after it was sold, wasn’t it at your disposal? Why is it that you planned this thing in your heart? You have not lied to men but to God!”

Then Peter said to her, “Why did you agree to test the Spirit of the Lord? Look! The feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out!”

Why, we have heard him say that Jesus the Nazarene will destroy this Place and change the customs handed down to us by Moses!"

The next day he showed up while they were fighting and tried to reconcile them peacefully, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers. Why are you mistreating each other?’

and he said, 'Why, how am I able, if some one may not guide me?' he called Philip also, having come up, to sit with him.

And while they were going on their way, they came to some water, and the Ethiopian said, See, here is water; why may I not have baptism?

And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?

And Peter went down to the men, and said, I am the man you are looking for: why have you come?

That’s why I came without any objection when I was sent for. So I ask: Why did you send for me?”

"Immediately, therefore, I sent to you, and I thank you heartily for having come. That is why all of us are now assembled here in God's presence, to listen to what the Lord has commanded you to say."

and ask'd him, why did you go to eat with the uncircumcised?

"If therefore God gave them the same gift as He gave us when we first believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, why, who was I to be able to thwart God?"

But when the apostles Barnabas and Paul heard it, they rent their clothes and sprang in among the people, crying out and saying, Sirs, why do ye these things?

“Men! Why are you doing these things? We are men also, with the same nature as you, and we are proclaiming good news to you, that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and everything in them.

Now then, why are you testing God by putting a yoke on the disciples’ necks that neither our ancestors nor we have been able to bear?

Why, we believe that it is by the mercy of the Lord Jesus that we are saved just as they are."

and Paul said to them, 'Having beaten us publicly uncondemned -- men, Romans being -- they did cast us to prison, and now privately do they cast us forth! why no! but having come themselves, let them bring us forth.'

Why, as I passed along and scanned your objects of worship, I actually came upon an altar with the inscription TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Well, I proclaim to you what you worship in your ignorance.

Meanwhile, some were shouting one thing and some another, because the assembly was in confusion, and most of them did not know why they had come together.

Howbeit the town-clerk, having calmed the multitude, saith - Ephesians! why, who is there of mankind that doth not acknowledge the city of Ephesians to be temple-keeper of the Great Diana, and of the imagethat fell from Jupiter?

Then Paul answered, "What do you mean by crying and breaking my heart? Why, I am ready not only to be bound at Jerusalem but to die there for the sake of the Lord Jesus."

I fell also to the ground, and heard a voice saying unto me - Saul! Saul! Why, me, art thou persecuting?

And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord.

the colonel ordered Paul to be brought into the barracks, and told them to examine him by flogging, in order that he might find out why they were crying out against him in such a way.

But, on the morrow, being minded to get to know the certainty as to why he was being accused by the Jews, he released him, and ordered the High-priests and all the High-council to come together; and, bringing down Paul, set him before them.

Desiring to know the cause why they accused him, I brought him down to their council.

Why is it considered incredible by any of you that God raises the dead?

and, when we were all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice, saying unto me, in the Hebrew language - Saul! Saul! why, me, art thou persecuting? It is hard for thee, against goads, to be kicking!

That is why the Jews seized me in the Temple and tried to kill me.

Why, the king is well aware of this! To the king I can speak without the slightest hesitation. I do not believe any of it has escaped his notice, for this was not done in a corner.

That is why I asked to see you and speak with you, for it is on account of Israel's hope that I have to wear this chain."

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

This is why God delivered them over to degrading passions. For even their females exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones.

train the foolish, teach the young, since you have knowledge and truth formulated in the Law??21 why, then, will you teach others and refuse to teach yourself? Will you preach against stealing, and yet steal yourself?

since you teach other people [all of this], why do you not teach yourselves [these things]? You preach that a person should not steal, [but] do you steal?

Why, it is owing to you that the name of God is maligned among the Gentiles, as scripture says!

But, if, the truth of God, by my falsehood, hath the more abounded unto his glory, why, any longer, am, even I, as a sinner, to be judged?

And why not, according as we are injuriously charged, and according as some affirm that we say, Let us do the bad things, that the good ones may come? whose sentence is, just.

"how then are we better than they?" why, not at all: for we have already convicted both Jews and Gentiles, of being all under the guilt of sin.

This is why the promise is by faith, so that it may be according to grace, to guarantee it to all the descendants—not only to those who are of the law but also to those who are of Abraham’s faith. He is the father of us all

That was why it was credited to him as uprightness.

Why, a man will hardly give his life for an upright person, though perhaps for a really good man some may be brave enough to die.

What good did you get from doing the things you are now ashamed of? Why, they result in death!

What follows, then? That 'the Law is equivalent to sin'? Never! Why, had it not been for the Law, I would never have known what sin meant! Thus I would never have known what it is to covet, unless the Law had said, You must not covet.

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.

Why, what we now suffer I count as nothing in comparison with the glory which is soon to be manifested in us.

For, by our hope, have we been saved, - but, hope beheld, is not hope, for, what one beholdeth, why doth he hope for?

Why, scripture says to Pharaoh, It was for this that I raised you up, to display my power in you, and to spread news of my name over all the earth.

Thou wilt say to me, then - Why longer findeth he fault? For, his purpose, who hath withstood?

O man! Who, nevertheless, art, thou, that art answering again unto God? Shall the thing formed say unto him that formed it - Why didst thou make me thus?

if the divine Being has patiently bore with those objects of his displeasure, that had been working out their own destruction, why may he not reveal himself to make them feel his vindictive power,

To what conclusion does this bring us? Why, that the Gentiles, who were not in pursuit of righteousness, have overtaken it--a righteousness, however, which arises from faith;

but Israel, who followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness: why?

Why is that? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone.

But I ask again, did Israel fail to understand? Why, to begin with, Moses said, "I will make you jealous of what is no nation at all, I will exasperate you at a senseless nation."

I say then, God has not disowned His people, has He? Of course not! Why, I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin.