17 Bible Verses about Why Do Others Do This?
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And, noticing this, Jesus said to them: "Why are you talking about your being short of bread? Do not you yet see or understand? Are your minds still so slow or comprehension?
And, if any one says to you 'Why are you doing that?', say 'The Master wants it, and will be sure to send it back here at once.'"
"What made you search for me?" he answered. "Did not you know that I must be in my Father's House?"
When Jesus became aware of the way in which they were debating, he turned to them and exclaimed: "What are you debating with yourselves?
"I told you just now," he answered, "and you did not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Surely you also do not want to become his disciples?"
Peter went down to the men and said: "I am the man for whom you are looking. What is your reason for coming?"
That was why I came, when I was sent for, without raising any objection. And now I ask your reason for sending for me."
"We are only men like yourselves, and we have come with the Good News that you should turn away from these follies to a living God, 'who made the heavens, the earth, the sea, and everything that is in them.'
"Why, then," they said, "did Moses direct that a man should 'serve his wife with a notice of separation and divorce her'?"
"How is it," his disciples asked, "that our Teachers of the Law say that Elijah has to come first?"
"How is it," they asked Jesus, "that our Teachers of the Law say that Elijah has to come first?"
"How is it, then," Jesus replied, "that David, speaking under inspiration, calls him 'lord,' in the passage-
Sighing deeply, Jesus said: "Why does this generation ask for a sign? I tell you, no sign shall be given it."
The Commanding Officer ordered Paul to be taken into the Fort, and directed that he should be examined under the lash, that he might find out the reason for their outcry against him.
What is the cause of the fighting and quarreling that goes on among you? Is not it to be found in the desires which are always at war within you?
Meanwhile some were shouting one thing and some another, for the Assembly was all in confusion, most of those present not even knowing why they had met.
