17 Bible Verses about Why Do Others Do This?

And as He noticed it He said to them, "Why are you discussing the fact that you have no bread? Do you not yet know nor understand? Are your minds so dull?

And if anyone asks you, 'Why are you doing that?' answer, 'The Lord needs it, and will soon send it back here.'"

Then He said to them, "Why is it that you were searching for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father's house?"

Jesus saw that they were arguing, and answered them: "Why are you arguing so in your hearts?

He answered them, "I have already told you and you would not listen to me. Why do you want to hear it again? You do not want to become His disciples, do you?"

So Peter went down and said to the men, "I am the man you are looking for. What is the purpose of your coming?"

so I have come, since I was sent for, without any hesitation."

and shouted, "Men, why are you doing this? We are merely men with natures like your own, who are telling you the good news, so that you may turn from these foolish things to the living God, who made heaven and earth and sea and all that they contain.

Then they asked Him, "Why did Moses command us to give a written divorce charge, and in this way to divorce a wife?"

The disciples asked Him, "Why then do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?"

Then they asked Him, "Why do the scribes say that Elijah has to come first?"

He asked them, "How then does David, under the guidance of the Spirit, call Him Lord, when he says:

Why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do.

But He sighed in spirit and said, "Why do the people of these times ask for a spectacular sign? I solemnly say, no sign at all will be given them."

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.

What causes wars and quarrels among you? Is it not your different desires which are ever at war within your bodies? You desire things and cannot have them, and so you commit murder.

So they kept on shouting, some one thing, some another, for the assembly was in confusion, and the majority of them did not know why they had met.