They said to him in answer, We are Abraham's seed and have never been any man's servant: why do you say, You will become free?

Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.

Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the 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.”

He answered them, I told you already and ye did not hear: why do ye desire to hear again? do ye also wish to become his disciples?

The man answered and said unto them, Why herein is a marvellous thing, that ye know not from whence he is, and yet he hath opened mine eyes.

This is why the Father loves Me, because I am laying down My life so I may take it up again.

And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him?

Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and 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.”

But none of those at table knew why he said this to him;

Peter said unto him, Lord, why cannot I follow thee now? I will lay down my life for thy sake.

Jesus said to him, Philip, have I been with you all this time, and still you have no knowledge of me? He who has seen me has seen the Father. Why do you say, Let us see the Father?

Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, "Lord, why is it that you are going to reveal yourself 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 askest thou me? ask them which heard me, what I have said unto them: behold, they know what I said.

Jesus answered him, If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil: but if well, why smitest thou me?

So Pilate said to Him, “Then You are a King?” Jesus answered, “You say [correctly] that I am a King. This is why I was born, and for this I have come into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth [who is a friend of the truth and belongs to the truth] hears and listens carefully 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 unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? She saith unto them, Because they have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid him.

Jesus saith unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? whom seekest thou? She, supposing him to be the gardener, saith unto him, Sir, if thou have borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid 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.

Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go 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.

And when Peter saw it, he answered unto the people, Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this? or why look ye so earnestly on us, as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk?

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

Who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things?

But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?

Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.

And Peter said to her, Why is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? Lo, the feet of those that have buried thy husband are at the door, and they shall carry thee 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!"

And the next day he shewed himself unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one to another?

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?

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

saying, “You went to uncircumcised men and [even] ate with them!”

"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 the Apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of it; and tearing their clothes they rushed out into the middle of the crowd, exclaiming, "Sirs, why are you doing all this?

And saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein:

Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were 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.

Now some shouted one thing and some another, for the gathering was in confusion and most of the people did not know why they had come together.

And the public clerk having quieted the multitude, saith, 'Men, Ephesians, why, who is the man that doth not know that the city of the Ephesians is a devotee of the great goddess Artemis, and of that which fell down from Zeus?

His reply was, "What can you mean by thus breaking my heart with your grief? Why, as for me, I am ready not only to go to Jerusalem and be put in chains, but even to die there for the sake of the Lord Jesus."

And I fell unto the ground, and heard a voice saying unto me, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?

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

the commander ordered him to be brought into the barracks, stating that he was to be interrogated with a whip in order to learn why the people were shouting against him that way.

And on the morrow, desirous to know the certainty of the matter why he was accused of the Jews, he loosed him, and commanded the chief priests and all the council to meet, and having brought Paul down set him before them.

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

Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?

And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.

This is why the Jews seized me in the Temple, and made attempts upon my life.

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.

For this reason I have asked to see you and talk with you, since it is for the sake of the hope of Israel (the Messiah, the resurrection) that I am bound with 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!

For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?

and why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), Let us do evil, that good may come? whose condemnation 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

Therefore his faith was credited to him as righteousness (right standing with God).

Why, it is scarcely conceivable that any one would die for a simply just man, although for a good and lovable man perhaps some one, here and there, will have the courage even to lay down his life.

At that time, then, what benefit did you get from conduct which you now regard with shame? Why, such things finally 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 we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet 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 then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?

Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made 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 that? Because [they did] not [pursue it] by faith, but as [if] by works. They stumbled over the {stone that causes people to stumble},

Then, I ask, "Did Israel not understand?" Why, first of all Moses declares, I will make you jealous of a nation that is no nation, I will provoke you to anger over a nation devoid of understanding.

I say then, has God rejected and disowned His people? Certainly not! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.