20 Bible Verses about Why Do Others Do This?

Jesus, perceiving it, said to them, "Why do you reason that it's because you have no bread? Don't you perceive yet, neither understand? Is your heart still hardened?

If anyone asks you, 'Why are you doing this?' say, 'The Lord needs him;' and immediately he will send him back here."

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

But Jesus, perceiving their thoughts, answered them, "Why are you reasoning so in your hearts?

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

Peter went down to the men, and said, "Behold, I am he whom you seek. Why have you come?"

Therefore also I came without complaint when I was sent for. I ask therefore, why did you send for me?"

Yahweh said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying, 'Will I really bear a child, yet I am old?'

"Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to the living God, who made the sky and the earth and the sea, and all that is in them;

Then Absalom said, "If not, please let my brother Amnon go with us." The king said to him, "Why should he go with you?"

he answered Arioch the king's captain, Why is the decree so urgent from the king? Then Arioch made the thing known to Daniel.

They asked him, "Why then did Moses command us to give her a bill of divorce, and divorce her?"

His disciples asked him, saying, "Then why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?"

They asked him, saying, "Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?"

He said to them, "How then does David in the Spirit call him Lord, saying,

Why? Because I don't love you? God knows.

He sighed deeply in his spirit, and said, "Why does this generation seek a sign? Most certainly I tell you, no sign will be given to this generation."

the commanding officer commanded him to be brought into the barracks, ordering him to be examined by scourging, that he might know for what crime they shouted against him like that.

Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don't they come from your pleasures that war in your members?

Some therefore cried one thing, and some another, for the assembly was in confusion. Most of them didn't know why they had come together.