9 Bible Verses about Why Do You Do This?

"What did you go out into the desert to behold?" he asked; "A reed shaken by the wind? If not, what did you go out to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, those who wear soft raiment dwell in kings' palaces!

"But why did you go? To see a prophet? I tell you, yes, and more than a prophet;

so they questioned him, saying, "Why then are you baptizing, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?"

"And why do you also keep transgressing the command of God by your tradition?" he asked.

"Why do you ask me about what is good?" asked Jesus. "There is but One who is good. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments."

Jesus said to him. "Why do you call me 'good'? No one is good save one, God himself.

"Why are you calling me 'good'?" said Jesus to him; "no one is good but God.

And Jesus, because he knew their malice, said:

"When he went out about five o'clock, he found others standing around, and said to them, "'Why have you been standing here idle, all the day long?'