Haller's Concordance: WHY
- ¤ Now the serpent was more subtle than any of the beasts of the earth which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman: Why hath God commanded you, that you should not eat of every tree of paradise? Gen. 3:1
- And the Lord God said to the woman: Why hast thou done this? And she answered: The serpent deceived me, and I did eat. Gen. 3:13
- And the Lord said to him: Why art thou angry? and why is thy countenance fallen? Gen. 4:6
- And Pharao called Abram, and said to him: What is this that thou hast done to me? Why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife? Gen. 12:18
- And the Lord said to Abraham: Why did Sara laugh, saying: Shall I, who am an old woman, bear a child indeed? Gen. 18:13
- And said to him: Come in, thou blessed of the Lord; why standest thou without? I have prepared the house, and a place for the camels. Gen. 24:31
- And calling for him, he said: It is evident she is thy wife: why didst thou feign her to be thy sister? He answered: I feared lest I should die for her sake. Gen. 26:9
- And Abimelech said: Why hast thou deceived us? Some man of the people might have lain with thy wife, and thou hadst brought upon us a great sin. And he commanded all the people, saying: Gen. 26:10
- Isaac said to them: Why are ye come to me, a man whom you hate, and have thrust out from you? Gen. 26:27
- And Isaac said to him: Why! who art thou? He answered: I am thy firstborn son, Esau. Gen. 27:32
- And his indignation cease, and he forget the things thou hast done to him: afterwards I will send, and bring thee from thence hither. Why shall I be deprived of both my sons in one day? Gen. 27:45
- And he said to his father-in-law: What is it that thou didst mean to do? did not I serve thee for Rachel? why hast thou deceived me? Gen. 29:25
- And he said to Jacob: Why hast thou done thus, to carry away, without my knowledge, my daughters as captives taken with the sword? Gen. 31:26
- Why wouldst thou run away privately, and not acquaint me, that I might have brought thee on the way with joy, and with songs, and with timbrels, and with harps? Gen. 31:27
- Suppose thou didst desire to go to thy friends, and hadst a longing after thy father's house: why hast thou stolen away my gods? Gen. 31:30
- Jacob asked him: Tell me by what name art thou called? He answered: Why dost thou ask my name? And he blessed him in the same place. Gen. 32:29
- But he drawing back his hand, the other came forth: and the woman said: Why is the partition divided for thee? and therefore called his name Phares. Gen. 38:29
- He asked them, saying: Why is your countenance sadder today than usual? Gen. 40:7
- ¤ And Jacob hearing that food was sold in Egypt, said to his sons: Why are ye careless? Gen. 42:1
- And when they were now departed out of the city, and had gone forward a little way: Joseph sending for the steward of his house, said: Arise, and pursue after the men: and when thou hast overtaken them, say to them: Why have you returned evil for good? Gen. 44:4
- And they answered: Why doth our lord speak so, as though thy servants had committed so heinous a fact? Gen. 44:7
- And he said to them: Why would you do so? know you not that there is no one like me in the science of divining. Gen. 44:15
- And when the buyers wanted money, all Egypt came to Joseph, saying: Give us bread: why should we die in thy presence, having now no money? Gen. 47:15
- Why therefore shall we die before thy eyes? we will be thine, both we and our lands: buy us to be the king's servants, and give us seed, lest for want of tillers the land be turned into a wilderness. Gen. 47:19
- And going out the next day, he saw two Hebrews quarrelling: and he said to him that did the wrong: Why strikest thou thy neighbour? Ex. 2:13
- And when they returned to Raguel their father, he said to them: Why are ye come sooner than usual? Ex. 2:18
- But he said: Where is he? why have you let the man go? call him that he may eat bread. Ex. 2:20
- And Moses said: I will go, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt. Ex. 3:3
- The king of Egypt said to them: Why do you Moses and Aaron draw off the people from their works? Get you gone to your burdens. Ex. 5:4
- And they that were over the works of the children of Israel, were scourged by Pharao's taskmasters, saying: Why have you not made up the task of bricks, both yesterday and to day, as before? Ex. 5:14
- And the officers of the children of Israel came, and cried out to Pharao, saying: Why dealest thou so with thy servants? Ex. 5:15
- And Moses returned to the Lord, and said: Lord, why hast thou afflicted this people? wherefore hast thou sent me? Ex. 5:22
- And they said to Moses: Perhaps there were no graves in Egypt, therefore thou hast brought us to die in the wilderness: why wouldst thou do this, to lead us out of Egypt? Ex. 14:11
- And the Lord said to Moses: Why criest thou to me? Speak to the children of Israel to go forward. Ex. 14:15
- And the children of Israel said to them: Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat over the fleshpots, and ate bread to the full: Why have you brought us into this desert, that you might destroy all the multitude with famine? Ex. 16:3
- And they chode with Moses, and said: Give us water, that we may drink. And Moses answered them: Why chide you with me? Wherefore do you tempt the Lord? Ex. 17:2
- So the people were thirsty there for want of water, and murmured against Moses, saying: Why didst thou make us go forth out of Egypt, to kill us and our children, and our beasts with thirst? Ex. 17:3
- And when his kinsman had seen all things that he did among the people, he said: What is it that thou dost among the people? Why sittest thou alone, and all the people wait from morning till night? Ex. 18:14
- But Moses besought the Lord his God, saying: Why, O Lord, is thy indignation enkindled against thy people, whom thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt, with great power, and with a mighty hand? Ex. 32:11
- Why did you not eat in the holy place the sacrifice for sin, which is most holy, and given to you, that you may bear the iniquity of the people, and may pray for them in the sight of the Lord. Lev. 10:17
- Said to them: We are unclean by occasion of the soul of a man. Why are we kept back that we may not offer in its season the offering to the Lord among the children of Israel? Num. 9:7
- And he said to the Lord: Why hast thou afflicted thy servant? Wherefore do I not find favour before thee? And why hast thou laid the weight of all this people upon me? Num. 11:11
- But even for a month of days, till it come out at your nostrils, and become loathsome to you, because you have cast off the Lord, who is in the midst of you, and have wept before him, saying: Why came we out of Egypt? Num. 11:20
- But he said: Why hast thou emulation for me? O that all the people might prophesy, and that the Lord would give them his spirit! Num. 11:29
- For I speak to him mouth to mouth: and plainly, and not by riddles and figures doth he see the Lord. Why then were you not afraid to speak ill of my servant Moses? Num. 12:8
- And Moses said to them: Why transgress you the word of the Lord, which shall not succeed prosperously with you? Num. 14:41
- And when they had stood up against Moses and Aaron, they said: Let it be enough for you, that all the multitude consisteth of holy ones, and the Lord is among them: Why lift you up yourselves above the people of the Lord? Num. 16:3
- Why have you brought out the church of the Lord into the wilderness, that both we and our cattle should die? Num. 20:4
- Why have you made us come up out of Egypt, and have brought us into this wretched place which cannot be sowed, nor bringeth forth figs, nor vines, nor pomegranates, neither is there any water to drink? Num. 20:5
- And speaking against God and Moses, they said: Why didst thou bring us out of Egypt, to die in the wilderness? There is no bread, nor have we any waters: our soul now loatheth this very light food. Num. 21:5
- And the Lord opened the mouth of the ass, and she said: What have I done to thee? Why strikest thou me, lo, now this third time? Num. 22:28
- And the angel said to him: Why beatest thou thy ass these three times? I am come to withstand thee, because thy way is perverse, and contrary to me: Num. 22:32
- And he said to Balaam: I sent messengers to call thee, why didst thou not come immediately to me? was it because I am not able to reward thy coming? Num. 22:37
- Our father died in the desert, and was not in the sedition, that was raised against the Lord under Core, but he died in his own sin: and he had no male children. Why is his name taken away out of his family, because he had no son? Give us a possession among the kinsmen of our father. Num. 27:3
- Said: Why have you saved the women? Num. 31:15
- Why do ye overturn the minds of the children of Israel, that they may not dare to pass into the place which the Lord hath given them? Num. 32:7
- Why shall we die therefore, and why shall this exceeding great fire consume us: for if we hear the voice of the Lord our God any more, we shall die. Dt. 5:25
- And all the nations shall say: Why hath the Lord done thus to this land? what meaneth this exceeding great heat of his wrath? Dt. 29:24
- And returning, they said to him: Let not all the people go up, but let two or three thousand men go, and destroy the city: why should all the people be troubled in vain, against enemies that are very few? Josu. 7:3
- And Josue said: Alas, O Lord God, why wouldst thou bring this people over the river Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorrhite, and to destroy us? would God we had stayed beyond the Jordan, as we began. Josu. 7:7
- And the Lord said to Josue: Arise, why liest thou flat on the ground? Josu. 7:10
- Josue called the Gabaonites, and said to them: Why would you impose upon us, saying: We dwell very far off from you, whereas you are in the midst of us? Josu. 9:22
- And the children of Joseph spoke to Josue, and said: Why hast thou given me but one lot and one portion to possess, whereas I am of so great a multitude, and the Lord hath blessed me? Josu. 17:14
- Thus saith all the people of the Lord: What meaneth this transgression? Why have you forsaken the Lord the God of Israel, building a sacrilegious altar, and revolting from the worship of him? Josu. 22:16
- On condition that you should not make a league with the inhabitants of this land, but should throw down their altars: and you would not hear my voice: why have you done this? Judg. 2:2
- Why dwellest thou between two borders, that thou mayst hear the bleatings of the flocks? Ruben being divided against himself, there was found a strife of courageous men. Judg. 5:16
- His mother looked out at a window, and howled: and she spoke from the dining room: Why is his chariot so long in coming back? Why are the feet of his horses so slow? Judg. 5:28
- And Gedeon said to him: I beseech thee, my lord, if the Lord be with us, why have these evils fallen upon us? Where are his miracles, which our fathers have told us of, saying: The Lord brought us out of Egypt but now the Lord hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hand of Madian. Judg. 6:13
- And Gaal, the son of Obed, cried: Who is Abimelech, and what is Sichem, that we should serve him? Is he not the son of Jerobaal, and hath made Zebul, his servant, ruler over the men of Emor, the father of Sichem? Why then shall we serve him? Judg. 9:28
- Whereas he hath dwelt in Hesebon, and the villages thereof, and in Aroer, and its villages, and in all the cities near the Jordan, for three hundred years. Why have you for so long a time attempted nothing about this claim? Judg. 11:26
- ¤ But behold there arose a sedition in Ephraim. And passing towards the north, they said to Jephte: When thou wentest to fight against the children of Ammon, why wouldst thou not call us, that we might go with thee? Therefore we will burn thy house. Judg. 12:1
- And he answered him: Why askest thou my name, which is wonderful? Judg. 13:18
- And the men of the tribe of Juda said to them: Why are you come up against us? They answered: We are come to bind Samson, and to pay him for what he hath done against us. Judg. 15:10
- Wherefore three thousand men of Juda went down to the cave of the rock Etam, and said to Samson: Knowest thou not that the Philistines rule over us? Why wouldst thou do thus? And he said to them: As they did to me, so have I done to them. Judg. 15:11
- And knowing the voice of the young man the Levite, and lodging with him, they said to him: Who brought thee hither? what dost thou here? why wouldst thou come hither? Judg. 18:3
- And began to shout out after them. They looked back, and said to Michas: What aileth thee? Why dost thou cry? Judg. 18:23
- And they sent messengers to all the tribe of Benjamin, to say to them: Why hath so great an abomination been found among you? Judg. 20:12
- O Lord God of Israel, why is so great an evil come to pass in thy people, that this day one tribe should be taken away from among us? Judg. 21:3
- But she answered them: Return, my daughters: why come ye with me? have I any more sons in my womb, that you may hope for husbands of me? Ruth 1:11
- I went out full and the Lord hath brought me back empty. Why then do you call me Noemi, whom the Lord hath humbled, and the Almighty hath afflicted? Ruth 1:21
- Then Elcana, her husband, said to her: Anna, why weepest thou? and why dost thou not eat? and why dost thou afflict thy heart? Am not I better to thee than ten children? 1 Ki. 1:8
- And he said to them: Why do ye these kinds of things, which I hear, very wicked things, from all the people? 1 Ki. 2:23
- Why have you kicked away my victims, and my gifts which I commanded to be offered in the temple: and thou hast rather honoured thy sons than me, to eat the firstfruits of every sacrifice of my people Israel? 1 Ki. 2:29
- And the people returned to the camp: and the ancients of Israel said: Why hath the Lord defeated us to day before the Philistines? Let us fetch unto us the ark of the covenant of the Lord from Silo, and let it come in the midst of us, that it may save us from the hand of our enemies. 1 Ki. 4:3
- If you send back the ark of the God of Israel, send it not away empty, but render unto him what you owe for sin, and then you shall be healed: and you shall know why his hand departeth not from you. 1 Ki. 6:3
- Why do you harden your hearts, as Egypt and Pharao hardened their hearts? did not he, after he was struck, then let them go, and they departed? 1 Ki. 6:6
- And Saul answering, said: Am not I a son of Jemini of the least tribe of Israel, and my kindred the last among all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? Why then hast thou spoken this word to me? 1 Ki. 9:21
- Why then didst thou not hearken to the voice of the Lord: but hast turned to the prey, and hast done evil in the eyes of the Lord? 1 Ki. 15:19
- And standing, he cried out to the bands of Israel, and said to them: Why are you come out prepared to fight? am not I a Philistine, and you the servants of Saul? Choose out a man of you, and let him come down and fight hand to hand. 1 Ki. 17:8
- Now when Eliab his eldest brother heard this, when he was speaking with others, he was angry with David, and said: Why camest thou hither? and why didst thou leave those few sheep in the desert? I know thy pride, and the wickedness of thy heart: that thou art come down to see the battle. 1 Ki. 17:28
- And he put his life in his hand, and slew the Philistine, and the Lord wrought great salvation for all Israel. Thou sawest it and didst rejoice. Why therefore wilt thou sin against innocent blood, by killing David, who is without fault? 1 Ki. 19:5
- And Saul said to Michol: Why hast thou deceived me so, and let my enemy go and flee away? And Michol answered Saul: Because he said to me: Let me go, or else I will kill thee. 1 Ki. 19:17
- And when the second day after the new moon was come, David's place appeared empty again. And Saul said to Jonathan, his son: Why cometh not the son of Isai to meat neither yesterday, nor to day? 1 Ki. 20:27
- And Jonathan answering Saul, his father, said: Why shall he die? What hath he done? 1 Ki. 20:32
- ¤ And David came to Nobe, to Achimelech, the priest and Achimelech was astonished at David's coming. And he said to him: Why art thou alone, and no man with thee? 1 Ki. 21:1
- And Achis said to his servants: You saw the man was mad: why have you brought him to me? 1 Ki. 21:14
- And Saul said to him: Why have you conspired against me, thou, and the son of Isai, and thou hast given him bread and a sword, and hast consulted the Lord for him, that he should rise up against me, continuing a traitor to this day. 1 Ki. 22:13
- And said to Saul: Why dost thou hear the words of men that say: David seeketh thy hurt? 1 Ki. 24:9
- And David said to Abner: Art not thou a man? and who is like unto thee in Israel? why then hast thou not kept thy lord the king? for there came one of the people in to kill the king thy lord. 1 Ki. 26:15
- And David said to Achis: If I have found favour in thy sight, let a place be given me in one of the cities of this country, that I may dwell there: for why should thy servant dwell in the royal city with thee? 1 Ki. 27:5
- And the woman said to him: Behold thou knowest all that Saul hath done, and how he hath rooted out the magicians and soothsayers from the land: why then dost thou lay a snare for my life, to cause me to be put to death? 1 Ki. 28:9
- And when the woman saw Samuel, she cried out with a loud voice, and said to Saul: Why hast thou deceived me? for thou art Saul. 1 Ki. 28:12
- And Samuel said to Saul: Why hast thou disturbed my rest, that I should be brought up? And Saul said: I am in great distress: for the Philistines fight against me, and God is departed from me, and would not hear me, neither by the hand of prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called thee, that thou mayst shew me what I shall do. 1 Ki. 28:15
- And Samuel said: Why askest thou me, seeing the Lord has departed from thee, and is gone over to thy rival? 1 Ki. 28:16
- David said to him: Why didst thou not fear to put out thy hand to kill the Lord's anointed? 2 Ki. 1:14
- Why didst thou go in to my father's concubine? And he was exceedingly angry for the words of Isboseth, and said: Am I a dog's head against Juda this day, who have shewn mercy to the house of Saul thy father, and to his brethren and friends, and have not delivered thee into the hands of David, and hast thou sought this day against me to charge me with a matter concerning a woman? 2 Ki. 3:8
- And Joab went in to the king, and said: What hast thou done? Behold Abner came to thee: Why didst thou send him away, and he is gone and departed? 2 Ki. 3:24
- In all the places that I have gone through with all the children of Israel, did ever I speak a word to any one of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people Israel, saying: Why have you not built me a house of cedar? 2 Ki. 7:7
- And it was told David by some that said: Urias went not to his house. And David said to Urias: Didst thou not come from thy journey? why didst thou not go down to thy house? 2 Ki. 11:10
- If thou see him to be angry, and he shall say: Why did you approach so near to the wall to fight? knew you not that many darts are thrown from above off the wall? 2 Ki. 11:20
- Who killed Abimelech the son of Jerobaal? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall and slew him in Thebes? Why did you go near the wall? Thou shalt say: Thy servant Urias the Hethite is also slain. 2 Ki. 11:21
- Why therefore hast thou despised the word of the Lord, to do evil in my sight? Thou hast killed Urias the Hethite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon. 2 Ki. 12:9
- But now that he is dead, why should I fast? Shall I be able to bring him back any more? I shall go to him rather: but he shall not return to me. 2 Ki. 12:23
- And he said to him: Why dost thou grow so lean from day to day, O son of the king? why dost thou not tell me the reason of it? And Ammon said to him: I am in love with Thamar the sister of my brother Absalom. 2 Ki. 13:4
- And the woman said: Why hast thou thought such a thing against the people of God, and why hath the king spoken this word, to sin, and not bring home again his own exile? 2 Ki. 14:13
- Then Joab arose, and came to Absalom to his house, and said: Why have thy servants set my corn on fire? 2 Ki. 14:31
- And the king said to Ethai the Gethite: Why comest thou with us: return and dwell with the king, for thou art a stranger, and art come out of thy own place. 2 Ki. 15:19
- And Abisai the son of Sarvia said to the king: Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? I will go, and cut off his head. 2 Ki. 16:9
- And the king said: What have I to do with you, ye sons of Sarvia? Let him alone and let him curse: for the Lord hath bid him curse David: and who is he that shall dare say, why hath he done so? 2 Ki. 16:10
- And Absalom said to him, Is this thy kindness to thy friend? Why wentest thou not with thy friend? 2 Ki. 16:17
- And Joab said to the man that told him: If thou sawest him, why didst thou not stab him to the ground, and I would have given thee ten sicles of silver, and a belt? 2 Ki. 18:11
- Then Achimaas the son of Sadoc said to Joab again: Why might not I also run after Chusai? And Joab said to him: Why wilt thou run, my son? thou wilt not be the bearer of good tidings. 2 Ki. 18:22
- And king David sent to Sadoc, and Abiathar the priests, saying: Speak to the ancients of Juda, saying: Why are you the last to bring the king back to his house? (For the talk of all Israel was come to the king in his house.) 2 Ki. 19:11
- You are my brethren, you are my bone, and my flesh, why are you the last to bring back the king? 2 Ki. 19:12
- And David said: What have I to do with you, ye sons of Sarvia? why are you a satan this day to me? shall there any man be killed this day in Israel? do not I know that this day I am made king over Israel? 2 Ki. 19:22
- And when he met the king at Jerusalem, the king said to him: Why camest thou not with me, Miphiboseth? 2 Ki. 19:25
- Then the king said to him: Why speakest thou any more? what I have said is determined: thou and Siba divide the possessions. 2 Ki. 19:29
- I am this day fourscore years old, are my senses quick to discern sweet and bitter? or can meat or drink delight thy servant? or can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? why should thy servant be a burden to my lord, the king? 2 Ki. 19:35
- Therefore all the men of Israel running together to the king, said to him: Why have our brethren the men of Juda stolen thee away, and have brought the king and his household over the Jordan, and all the men of David with him? 2 Ki. 19:41
- And all the men of Juda answered the men of Israel: Because the king is nearer to me: why art thou angry for this matter? have we eaten any thing of the king's, or have any gifts been given us? 2 Ki. 19:42
- And the men of Israel answered the men of Juda, and said: I have ten parts in the king more than thou, and David belongeth to me more than to thee: why hast thou done me a wrong, and why was it not told me first, that I might bring back my king? And the men of Juda answered more harshly than the men of Israel. 2 Ki. 19:43
- Am not I she that answer truth in Israel, and thou seekest to destroy the city, and to overthrow a mother in Israel? Why wilt thou throw down the inheritance of the Lord? 2 Ki. 20:19
- Neither did his father rebuke him at any time, saying: Why hast thou done this? And he also was very beautiful, the next in birth after Absalom. 3 Ki. 1:6
- Go, and get thee in to king David, and say to him: Didst not thou, my lord, O king, swear to me, thy handmaid, saying: Solomon, thy son, shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne? why then doth Adonias reign? 3 Ki. 1:13
- And king Solomon answered, and said to his mother: Why dost thou ask Abisag, the Sunamitess, for Adonias? ask for him also the kingdom; for he is my elder brother, and hath Abiathar, the priest, and Joab, the son of Sarvia. 3 Ki. 2:22
- Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the Lord, and the commandment that I laid upon thee? 3 Ki. 2:43
- And this house shall be made an example of: every one that shall pass by it, shall be astonished, and shall hiss, and say: Why hath the Lord done thus to this land, and to this house? 3 Ki. 9:8
- And Pharao said to him: Why, what is wanting to thee with me, that thou seekest to go to thy own country? But he answered: Nothing; yet I beseech thee to let me go. 3 Ki. 11:22
- Ahias heard the sound of her feet, coming in at the door, and said: Come in, thou wife of Jeroboam: why dost thou feign thyself to be another? But I am sent to thee with heavy tidings. 3 Ki. 14:6
- And Jezabel, his wife, went in to him, and said to him: What is the matter that thy soul is so grieved? and why eatest thou no bread? 3 Ki. 21:5
- And the messengers turned back to Ochozias. And he said to them: Why are you come back? 4 Ki. 1:5
- And Eliseus said to the king of Israel: What have I to do with thee? go to the prophets of thy father, and thy mother. And the king of Israel said to him: Why hath the Lord gathered together these three kings, to deliver them into the hands of Moab? 4 Ki. 3:13
- And he said to her: Why dost thou go to him? to day is neither new moon nor sabbath. She answered: I will go. 4 Ki. 4:23
- And when Eliseus, the man of God, had heard this, to wit, that the king of Israel had rent his garments, he sent to him, saying: Why hast thou rent thy garments? let him come to me, and let him know that there is a prophet in Israel. 4 Ki. 5:8
- And the heart of the king of Syria, was troubled for this thing. And calling together his servants, he said: Why do you not tell me who it is that betrays me to the king of Israel? 4 Ki. 6:11
- And Hazael said to him: Why doth my lord weep? And he said: Because I know the evil that thou wilt do to the children of Israel. Their strong cities thou wilt burn with fire, and their young men thou wilt kill with the sword, and thou wilt dash their children, and rip up their pregnant women. 4 Ki. 8:12
- Then Jehu went forth to the servants of his Lord: and they said to him: Are all things well? why came this madman to thee? And he said to them: You know the man, and what he said. 4 Ki. 9:11
- And king Joas called Joiada, the high priest, and the priests, saying to them: Why do you not repair the temple? Take you, therefore, money no more according to your order, but restore it for the repairing of the temple. 4 Ki. 12:7
- Thou hast beaten and prevailed over Edom, and thy heart hath lifted thee up; be content with this glory, and sit at home; why provokest thou evil, that thou shouldst fall, and Juda with thee? 4 Ki. 14:10
- Abiding with all Israel. Did I ever speak to any one, of all the judges of Israel whom I charged to feed my people, saying: Why have you not built me a house of cedar? 1 Par. 17:6
- And Joab answered: The Lord make his people a hundred times more than they are: but, my lord the king, are they not all thy servants: why doth my lord seek this thing, which may be imputed as a sin to Israel? 1 Par. 21:3
- And this house shall be for a proverb to all that pass by, and they shall be astonished and say: Why hath the Lord done thus to this land, and to this house? 2 Par. 7:21
- And the king called Joiada the chief, and said to him: Why hast thou not taken care to oblige the Levites to bring in out of Juda and Jerusalem the money that was appointed by Moses the servant of the Lord for all the multitude of Israel to bring into the tabernacle of the testimony? 2 Par. 24:6
- The spirit of God then came upon Zacharias the son of Joiada the priest, and he stood in the sight of the people, and said to them: Thus saith the Lord God: Why transgress you the commandment of the Lord which will not be for your good, and have forsaken the Lord, to make him forsake you? 2 Par. 24:20
- Wherefore the Lord being angry against Amasias, sent a prophet to him, to say to him: Why hast thou adored gods that have not delivered their own people out of thy hand? 2 Par. 25:15
- Thou hast said: I have overthrown Edom, and therefore thy heart is lifted up with pride: stay at home, why dost thou provoke evil against thee, that both thou shouldst fall and Juda with thee. 2 Par. 25:19
- And they said to them: You shall not bring in the captives hither, lest we sin against the Lord. Why will you add to our sins, and heap up upon our former offences? for the sin is great, and the fierce anger of the Lord hangeth over Israel. 2 Par. 28:13
- And Ezechias asked the priests and the Levites, why the heaps lay so. 2 Par. 31:9
- And the king said to me: Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou dost not appear to be sick? this is not without cause, but some evil, I know not what, is in thy heart. And I was seized with an exceeding great fear: 2 Esd. 2:2
- And I said to the king: O king, live for ever: why should not my countenance be sorrowful, seeing the city of the place of the sepulchres of my fathers is desolate, and the gates thereof are burnt with fire? 2 Esd. 2:3
- And I said to them: The thing you do is not good: why walk you not in the fear of our God, that we be not exposed to the reproaches of the Gentiles our enemies? 2 Esd. 5:9
- And I pleaded the matter against the magistrates, and said: Why have we forsaken the house of God? And I gathered them together, and I made them to stand in their places. 2 Esd. 13:11
- And I charged them, and I said to them: Why stay you before the wall? if you do so another time, I will lay hands on you. And from that time they came no more on the sabbath. 2 Esd. 13:21
- ¤ But as Tobias made longer stay upon occasion of the marriage, Tobias his father was solicitous, saying: Why thinkest thou doth my son tarry, or why is he detained there? Tob. 10:1
- But his mother wept and was quite disconsolate, and said: Woe, woe is me, my son; why did we send thee to go to a strange country, the light of our eyes, the staff of our old age, the comfort of our life, the hope of our posterity? Tob. 10:4
- And why they above all that dwell in the east, have despised us, and have not come out to meet us, that they might receive us with peace? Jud. 5:4
- But now tell me, for what cause hast thou left them, and why it hath pleased thee to come to us? Jud. 11:3
- And the king's servants that were chief at the doors of the palace, said to him: Why dost thou alone not observe the king's commandment? Esther 3:3
- And she called for Athach the eunuch, whom the king had appointed to attend upon her, and she commanded him to go to Mardochai, and learn of him why he did this. Esther 4:5
- And as she held her peace, he took the golden sceptre, and laid it upon her neck, and kissed her, and said: Why dost thou not speak to me? Esther 15:15
- And he said to her: Thou hast spoken like one of the foolish women: If we have received good things at the hand of God, why should we not receive evil? In all these things Job did not sin with his lips. Job 2:10
- Why did I not die in the womb? why did I not perish when I came out of the belly? Job 3:11
- Why received upon the knees? why suckled at the breasts? Job 3:12
- Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life to them that are in bitterness of soul? Job 3:20
- Why have you detracted the words of truth, whereas there is none of you that can reprove me? Job 6:25
- What is a man, that thou shouldst magnify him or why dost thou set thy heart upon him? Job 7:17
- I have sinned: what shall I do to thee, O keeper of men? why hast thou set me opposite to thee, and I am become burdensome to myself? Job 7:20
- Why dost thou not remove my sin, and why dost thou not take away my iniquity? Behold now I shall sleep in the dust: and if thou seek me in the morning, I shall not be. Job 7:21
- If he examine on a sudden, who shall answer him? or who can say: Why dost thou so? Job 9:12
- But if so also I am wicked, why have I laboured in vain? Job 9:29
- I will say to God: Do not condemn me: tell me why thou judgest me so? Job 10:2
- If I have sinned, and thou hast spared me for an hour: why dost thou not suffer me to be clean from my iniquity? Job 10:14
- Why didst thou bring me forth out of the womb? O that I had been consumed, that eye might not see me! Job 10:18
- Why do I tear my flesh with my teeth, and carry my soul in my hands? Job 13:14
- Who is he that will plead against me? let him come: why am I consumed holding my peace? Job 13:19
- Why hidest thou thy face, and thinkest me thy enemy? Job 13:24
- Why doth thy heart elevate thee, and why dost thou stare with thy eyes, as if they were thinking great things? Job 15:12
- Why doth thy spirit swell against God, to utter such words out of thy mouth? Job 15:13
- Why are we reputed as beasts, and counted vile before you? Job 18:3
- Why do you persecute me as God, and glut yourselves with my flesh? Job 19:22
- Why then do you say now: Let us persecute him, and let us find occasion of word against him? Job 19:28
- Why then do the wicked live, are they advanced, and strengthened with riches? Job 21:7
- Behold you all know it, and why do you speak vain things without cause? Job 27:12
- ¤ Why have the Gentiles raged, and the people devised vain things? Ps. 2:1
- ¤ Why, O Lord, are they multiplied that afflict me? many are they who rise up against me. Ps. 3:1
- O ye sons of men, how long will you be dull of heart? why do you love vanity, and seek after lying? Ps. 4:2
- ¤ Why, O Lord, hast thou retired afar off? why dost thou slight us in our wants, in the time of trouble? Ps. 10:1
- ¤ O God my God, look upon me: why hast thou forsaken me? Far from my salvation are the words of my sins. Ps. 22:1
- Why art thou sad, O my soul? and why dost thou trouble me? Hope in God, for I will still give praise to him: the salvation of my countenance, Ps. 42:5
- I will say to God: Thou art my support. Why hast thou forgotten me? and why go I mourning, whilst my enemy afflicteth me? Ps. 42:9
- Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why dost thou disquiet me? Hope thou in God, for I will still give praise to him: the salvation of my countenance, and my God. Ps. 42:11
- For thou art God my strength: why hast thou cast me off? and why do I go sorrowful whilst the enemy afflicteth me? Ps. 43:2
- why art thou sad, O my soul? and why dost thou disquiet me? Hope in God, for I will still give praise to him: the salvation of my countenance, and my God. Ps. 43:5
- Arise, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, and cast us not off to the end. Ps. 44:23
- Why turnest thou thy face away? and forgettest our want and our trouble? Ps. 44:24
- Why shall I fear in the evil day? the iniquity of my heel shall encompass me. Ps. 49:5
- But to the sinner God hath said: Why dost thou declare my justices, and take my covenant in thy mouth? Ps. 50:16
- ¤ Why dost thou glory in malice, thou that art mighty in iniquity? Ps. 52:1
- Why suspect, ye curdled mountains? A mountain in which God is well pleased to dwell: for there the Lord shall dwell unto the end. Ps. 68:16
- ¤ O God, why hast thou cast us off unto the end: why is thy wrath enkindled against the sheep of thy pasture? Ps. 74:1
- Why dost thou turn away thy hand: and thy right hand out of the midst of thy bosom for ever? Ps. 74:11
- Why hast thou broken down the hedge thereof, so that all they who pass by the way do pluck it? Ps. 80:12
- Lord, why castest thou off my prayer: why turnest thou away thy face from me? Ps. 88:14
- Why have I hated instruction, and my heart consented not to reproof, Pr. 5:12
- Why art thou seduced, my son, by a strange woman, and art cherished in the bosom of another? Pr. 5:20
- Laughter I counted error: and to mirth I said: Why art thou vainly deceived? Eccl. 2:2
- And his word is full of power: neither can any man say to him: Why dost thou so? Eccl. 8:4
- For they shall see the end of the wise man, and shall not understand what God hath designed for him, and why the Lord hath set him in safety. Wis. 4:17
- For the visions that troubled them foreshewed these things, lest they should perish, and not know why they suffered these evils. Wis. 18:19
- But nothing is more wicked than the covetous man. Why is earth, and ashes proud? Sir. 10:9
- Why doth one day excel another, and one light another, and one year another year, when all come of the sun? Sir. 33:7
- Why are ye slow and what do you say of these things? your souls are exceeding thirsty. Sir. 51:32
- Why do you consume my people, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord the God of hosts. Isa. 3:15
- Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel: My way is hid from the Lord, and my judgment is passed over from my God? Isa. 40:27
- Woe to him that saith to his father: Why begettest thou? and to the woman: Why dost thou bring forth? Isa. 45:10
- Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labour for that which doth not satisfy you? Hearken diligently to me, and eat that which is good, and your soul shall be delighted in fatness. Isa. 55:2
- Why have we fasted, and thou hast not regarded: have we humbled our souls, and thou hast not taken notice? Behold in the day of your fast your own will is found, and you exact of all your debtors. Isa. 58:3
- Why then is thy apparel red, and thy garments like theirs that tread in the winepress? Isa. 63:2
- Why hast thou made us to err, O Lord, from thy ways: why hast thou hardened our heart, that we should not fear thee? return for the sake of thy servants, the tribes of thy inheritance. Isa. 63:17
- Is Israel a bondman, or a homeborn slave? why then is he become a prey? Jer. 2:14
- Why will you contend with me in judgment? you have all forsaken me, saith the Lord. Jer. 2:29
- See ye the word of the Lord: Am I become a wilderness to Israel, or a lateward springing land? why then have my people said: We are revolted, we will come to thee no more? Jer. 2:31
- Why dost thou endeavour to shew thy way good to seek my love, thou who hast also taught thy malices to be thy ways, Jer. 2:33
- And if you shall say: Why hath the Lord our God done all these things to us? thou shalt say to them: As you have forsaken me, and served a strange god in your own land, so shall you serve strangers in a land that is not your own. Jer. 5:19
- Why then is this people in Jerusalem turned away with a stubborn revolting? they have laid hold on lying, and have refused to return. Jer. 8:5
- Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fenced city, and let us be silent there: for the Lord our God hath put us to silence, and hath given us water of gall to drink: for we have sinned against the Lord. Jer. 8:14
- Behold the voice of the daughter of my people from a far country: Is not the Lord in Sion, or is not her king in her? why then have they provoked me to wrath with their idols, and strange vanities? Jer. 8:19
- Is there no balm in Galaad? or is no physician there? Why then is not the wound of the daughter of my people closed? Jer. 8:22
- Who is the wise man, that may understand this, and to whom the word of the mouth of the Lord may come that he may declare this, why the land hath perished, and is burnt up like a wilderness, which none passeth through? Jer. 9:12
- ¤ Thou indeed, O Lord, art just, if I plead with thee, but yet I will speak what is just to thee: Why doth the way of the wicked prosper: why is it well with all them that transgress, and do wickedly? Jer. 12:1
- And if thou shalt say in thy heart: Why are these things come upon me? For the greatness of thy iniquity, thy nakedness is discovered, the soles of thy feet are defiled. Jer. 13:22
- O expectation of Israel, the Saviour thereof in time of trouble: why wilt thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man turning in to lodge? Jer. 14:8
- Why wilt thou be as a wandering man, as a mighty man that cannot save? but thou, O Lord, art among us, and thy name is called upon by us, forsake us not. Jer. 14:9
- Hast thou utterly cast away Juda, or hath thy soul abhorred Sion? why then hast thou struck us, so that there is no healing for us? we have looked for peace, and there is no good: and for the time of healing, and behold trouble. Jer. 14:19
- Woe is me, my mother: why hast thou borne me a man of strife, a man of contention to all the earth? I have not lent on usury, neither hath any man lent to me on usury: yet all curse me. Jer. 15:10
- Why is my sorrow become perpetual, and my wound desperate so as to refuse to be healed? it is become to me as the falsehood of deceitful waters that cannot be trusted. Jer. 15:18
- Why came I out of the womb, to see labour and sorrow, and that my days should be spent in confusion? Jer. 20:18
- And many nations shall pass by this city: and they shall say every man to his neighbour: Why hath the Lord done so to this great city? Jer. 22:8
- Is this man Jechonias an earthen and a broken vessel? is he a vessel wherein is no pleasure? why are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land which they know not? Jer. 22:28
- Why hath he prophesied in the name of the Lord, saying: This house shall be like Silo; and this city shall be made desolate, without an inhabitant? And all the people were gathered together against Jeremias in the house of the Lord. Jer. 26:9
- Why will you die, thou and thy people by the sword, and by famine, and by the pestilence, as the Lord hath spoken against the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon? Jer. 27:13
- Therefore hearken not to them, but serve the king of Babylon, that you may live. Why should this city be given up to desolation? Jer. 27:17
- And now why hast thou not rebuked Jeremias the Anathothite, who prophesieth to you? Jer. 29:27
- Ask ye, and see if a man bear children? why then have I seen every man with his hands on his loins, like a woman in labour, and all faces are turned yellow? Jer. 30:6
- Why criest thou for thy affliction? thy sorrow is incurable: for the multitude of thy iniquity, and for thy hardened sins I have done these things to thee. Jer. 30:15
- For Sedecias king of Juda had shut him up, saying: Why dost thou prophesy, saying: Thus saith the Lord: Behold I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it? Jer. 32:3
- And thou shalt say to Joakim the king of Juda: Thus saith the Lord: Thou hast burnt that volume, saying: Why hast thou written therein, and said: The king of Babylon shall come speedily, and shall lay waste this land: and shall cause to cease from thence man and beast? Jer. 36:29
- And now thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Why do you commit this great evil against your own souls, that there should die of you man and woman, child and suckling out of the midst of Juda, and no remnant should be left you: Jer. 44:7
- Why are thy valiant men come to nothing? they stood not: because the Lord hath overthrown them. Jer. 46:15
- ¤ Against the children of Ammon. Thus saith the Lord: Hath Israel no sons? or hath he no heir? Why then hath Melchom inherited Gad: and his people dwelt in his cities? Jer. 49:1
- Why gloriest thou in the valleys? thy valley hath flowed away, O delicate daughter, that hast trusted in thy treasures, and hast said: Who shall come to me? Jer. 49:4
- Mem. Why hath a living man murmured, man suffering for his sins? Lam. 3:39
- Why wilt thou forget us for ever? why wilt thou forsake us for a long time? Lam. 5:20
- And you say: Why hath not the son borne the iniquity of his father? Verily, because the son hath wrought judgment and justice, hath kept all my commandments, and done them, living, he shall live. Ezec. 18:19
- Cast away from you all your transgressions, by which you have transgressed, and make to yourselves a new heart, and a new spirit: and why will you die, O house of Israel? Ezec. 18:31
- And say: Why did thy mother the lioness lie down among the lions, and bring up her whelps in the midst of young lions? Ezec. 19:2
- And when they shall say to thee: Why mournest thou? thou shalt say: For that which I hear: because it cometh, and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be made feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and water shall run down every knee: behold it cometh, and it shall be done, saith the Lord God. Ezec. 21:7
- And the people said to me: Why dost thou not tell us what these things mean that thou doest? Ezec. 24:19
- Say to them: As I live, saith the Lord God, I desire not the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way, and live. Turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways: and why will you die, O house of Israel? Ezec. 33:11
- And he asked him that had received the orders of the king, why so cruel a sentence was gone forth from the face of the king. And when Arioch had told the matter to Daniel, Dan. 2:15
- And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing before him: for he doth according to his will, as well with the powers of heaven, as among the inhabitants of the earth: and there is none that can resist his hand, and say to him: Why hast thou done it? Dan. 4:35
- The king also worshipped him, and went every day to adore him: but Daniel adored his God. And the king said to him: Why dost thou not adore Bel? Dan. 14:3
- Why did the beasts groan, why did the herds of cattle low? because there is no pasture for them: yea, and the flocks of sheep are perished. Joel 1:18
- Between the porch and the altar the priests, the Lord's ministers, shall weep, and shall say: Spare, O Lord, spare thy people: and give not thy inheritance to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them. Why should they say among the nations: Where is their God? Joel 2:17
- And the ship master came to him and said to him: Why art thou fast asleep? rise up call upon thy God, if so be that God will think of us that we may not perish. Jonas 1:6
- And they said every one to his fellow: Come and let us cast lots, that we may know why this evil is upon us. And they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonas. Jonas 1:7
- And the men were greatly afraid, and they said to him: Why hast thou done this? (For the men knew that he fled from the face of the Lord: because he had told them.) Jonas 1:10
- Now, why art thou drawn together with grief? Hast thou no king in thee, or is thy counsellor perished, because sorrow hath taken thee as a woman in labour. Mic. 4:9
- Why hast thou shewn me iniquity and grievance, to see rapine and injustice before me? and there is a judgment, but opposition is more powerful. Hab. 1:3
- Thy eyes are too pure to behold evil, and thou canst not look on iniquity. Why lookest thou upon them that do unjust things, and holdest thy peace when the wicked devoureth the man that is more just than himself? Hab. 1:13
- You have looked for more, and behold it became less, and you brought it home, and I blowed it away: why, saith the Lord of hosts? because my house is desolate, and you make haste every man to his own house. Agg. 1:9
- Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why then doth every one of us despise his brother, violating the covenant of our fathers? Mal. 2:10
- Moreover, concerning the evils that Demetrius, the king, hath done against them, we have written to him, saying: Why hast thou made thy yoke heavy upon our friends and allies, the Jews. 1 Ma. 8:31
- And he said to Jonathan: Why hast thou troubled all the people, whereas we have no war? 1 Ma. 12:44
- And for raiment why are you solicitous? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they labour not, neither do they spin. Mt. 6:28
- And why seest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye; and seest not the beam that is in thy own eye? Mt. 7:3
- And Jesus saith to them: Why are you fearful, O ye of little faith? Then rising up, he commanded the winds, and the sea, and there came a great calm. Mt. 8:26
- And Jesus seeing their thoughts, said: Why do you think evil in your hearts? Mt. 9:4
- And the Pharisees seeing it, said to his disciples: Why doth your master eat with publicans and sinners? Mt. 9:11
- Then came to him the disciples of John, saying: Why do we and the Pharisees, fast often, but thy disciples do not fast? Mt. 9:14
- And his disciples came and said to him: Why speakest thou to them in parables? Mt. 13:10
- And immediately Jesus stretching forth his hand took hold of him, and said to him: O thou of little faith, why didst thou doubt? Mt. 14:31
- Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the ancients? For they wash not their hands when they eat bread. Mt. 15:2
- But he answering, said to them: Why do you also transgress the commandment of God for your tradition? Mt. 15:3
- And Jesus knowing it, said: Why do you think within yourselves, O ye of little faith, for that you have no bread? Mt. 16:8
- Why do you not understand that it was not concerning bread I said to you: Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees? Mt. 16:11
- And his disciples asked him, saying: Why then do the scribes say that Elias must come first? Mt. 17:10
- Then came the disciples to Jesus secretly, and said: Why could not we cast him out? Mt. 17:19
- They say to him: Why then did Moses command to give a bill of divorce, and to put away? Mt. 19:7
- Who said to him: Why askest thou me concerning good? One is good, God. But if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments. Mt. 19:17
- But about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing, and he saith to them: Why stand you here all the day idle? Mt. 20:6
- The baptism of John, whence was it? From heaven or from men? But they thought within themselves, saying: If we shall say, from heaven, he will say to us: Why then did you not believe him? Mt. 21:25
- But Jesus knowing their wickedness, said: Why do you tempt me, ye hypocrites? Mt. 22:18
- And Jesus knowing it, said to them: Why do you trouble this woman? For she hath wrought a good work upon me. Mt. 26:10
- The governor said to them: Why, what evil hath he done? But they cried out the more, saying: Let him be crucified. Mt. 27:23
- And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying: Eli, Eli, lamma sabacthani? That is, My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me? Mt. 27:46
- Why doth this man speak thus? He blasphemeth. Who can forgive sins, but God only? Mk. 2:7
- Which Jesus presently knowing in his spirit that they so thought within themselves, saith to them: Why think you these things in your hearts? Mk. 2:8
- And the scribes and the Pharisees, seeing that he ate with publicans and sinners, said to his disciples: Why doth your master eat and drink with publicans and sinners? Mk. 2:16
- And the disciples of John and the Pharisees used to fast. And they come and say to him: Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast; but thy disciples do not fast? Mk. 2:18
- And the Pharisees said to him: Behold, why do they on the sabbath day that which is not lawful? Mk. 2:24
- And he said to them: Why are you fearful? have you not faith yet? Mk. 4:40
- While he was yet speaking, some come from the ruler of the synagogue's house, saying: Thy daughter is dead: why dost thou trouble the master any further? Mk. 5:35
- And going in, he saith to them: Why make you this ado, and weep? the damsel is not dead, but sleepeth. Mk. 5:39
- And the Pharisees and scribes asked him: Why do not thy disciples walk according to the tradition of the ancients, but they eat bread with common hands? Mk. 7:5
- And sighing deeply in spirit, he saith: Why doth this generation seek a sign? Amen, I say to you, a sign shall not be given to this generation. Mk. 8:12
- Which Jesus knowing, saith to them: Why do you reason, because you have no bread? Do you not yet know nor understand? Have you still your heart blinded? Mk. 8:17
- And they asked him, saying: Why then do the Pharisees and scribes say that Elias must come first? Mk. 9:11
- And when he was come into the house, his disciples secretly asked him: Why could not we cast him out? Mk. 9:28
- And Jesus said to him: Why callest thou me good? None is good but one, that is God. Mk. 10:18
- But they thought with themselves, saying: If we say, From heaven; he will say, Why then did you not believe him? Mk. 11:31
- Or shall we not give it? Who knowing their wiliness, saith to them: Why tempt you me? Bring me a penny that I may see it. Mk. 12:15
- Now there were some that had indignation within themselves and said: Why was this waste of the ointment made? Mk. 14:4
- But Jesus said: Let her alone. Why do You molest her? She hath wrought a good work upon me. Mk. 14:6
- And Pilate saith to them: Why, what evil hath he done? But they cried out the more: Crucify him. Mk. 15:14
- And at the ninth hour, Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying: Eloi, Eloi, lamma sabacthani? Which is, being interpreted: My God, My God, Why hast thou forsaken me? Mk. 15:34
- And seeing him, they wondered. And his mother said to him: Son, why hast thou done so to us? Behold thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing. Lk. 2:48
- But the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying to his disciples: Why do you eat and drink with publicans and sinners? Lk. 5:30
- And they said to him: Why do the disciples of John fast often and make prayers, and the disciples of the Pharisees in like manner; but thine eat and drink? Lk. 5:33
- And some of the Pharisees said to them: Why do you that which is not lawful on the sabbath days? Lk. 6:2
- And why seest thou the mote in thy brother's eye: but the beam that is in thy own eye thou considerest not? Lk. 6:41
- And why call you me, Lord, Lord; and do not the things which I say? Lk. 6:46
- And the Pharisee began to say, thinking within himself, why he was not washed before dinner. Lk. 11:38
- If then ye be not able to do so much as the least thing, why are you solicitous for the rest? Lk. 12:26
- And why, even of yourselves, do you not judge that which is just? Lk. 12:57
- And he said to the dresser of the vineyard: Behold, for these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree and I find none. Cut it down therefore. Why cumbereth it the ground? Lk. 13:7
- And Jesus said to him: Why dost thou call me good? None is good but God alone. Lk. 18:19
- And why then didst thou not give my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have exacted it with usury? Lk. 19:23
- And if any man shall ask you: Why do you loose him? You shall say thus unto him: Because the Lord hath need of his service. Lk. 19:31
- And as they were loosing the colt, the owners thereof said to them: Why loose you the colt? Lk. 19:33
- But they thought within themselves, saying: If we shall say, From heaven: he will say: Why then did you not believe him? Lk. 20:5
- But he, considering their guile, said to them: Why tempt you me? Lk. 20:23
- And he said to them: Why sleep you? Arise: pray: lest you enter into temptation. Lk. 22:46
- And he said to them the third time: Why, what evil hath this man done? I find no cause of death in him. I will chastise him therefore and let him go. Lk. 23:22
- And as they were afraid and bowed down their countenance towards the ground, they said unto them: Why seek you the living with the dead? Lk. 24:5
- And he said to them: Why are you troubled, and why do thoughts arise in your hearts? Lk. 24:38
- And they asked him and said to him: Why then dost thou baptize, if thou be not Christ, nor Elias, nor the prophet? Jn. 1:25
- And immediately his disciples came. And they wondered that he talked with the woman. Yet no man said: What seekest thou? Or: Why talkest thou with her? Jn. 4:27
- Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? Why seek you to kill me? Jn. 7:19
- The ministers therefore came to the chief priests and the Pharisees. And they said to them: Why have you not brought him? Jn. 7:45
- Why do you not know my speech? Because you cannot hear my word. Jn. 8:43
- Which of you shall convince me of sin? If I say the truth to you, why do you not believe me: Jn. 8:46
- He answered them: I have told you already, and you have heard. Why would you hear it again? Will you also become his disciples? Jn. 9:27
- The man answered and said to them: why, herein is a wonderful thing, that you know not from whence he is, and he hath opened my eyes. Jn. 9:30
- And many of them said: He hath a devil and is mad. Why hear you him? Jn. 10:20
- Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence and given to the poor? Jn. 12:5
- Peter saith to him: Why cannot I follow thee now? I will lay down my life for thee. Jn. 13:37
- Why askest thou me? Ask them who have heard what I have spoken unto them. Behold they know what things I have said. Jn. 18:21
- Jesus answered him: If I have spoken evil, give testimony of the evil; but if well, why strikest thou me? Jn. 18:23
- They say to her: Woman, why weepest thou? She saith to them: Because they have taken away my Lord: and I know not where they have laid him. Jn. 20:13
- Jesus saith to her: Woman, why weepest thou? Whom seekest thou? She, thinking that it was the gardener, saith to him: Sir, if thou hast taken him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him: and I will take him away. Jn. 20:15
- Who also said: Ye men of Galilee, why stand you looking up to heaven? This Jesus who is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come as you have seen him going into heaven. Acts 1:11
- But Peter seeing, made answer to the people: Ye men of Israel, why wonder you at this? Or why look you upon us, as if by our strength or power we had made this man to walk? Acts 3:12
- Who, by the Holy Ghost, by the mouth of our father David, thy servant, hast said: Why did the Gentiles rage: and the people meditate vain things? Acts 4:25
- But Peter said: Ananias, why hath Satan tempted thy heart, that thou shouldst lie to the Holy Ghost and by fraud keep part of the price of the land? Acts 5:3
- Whilst it remained, did it not remain to thee? And after it was sold, was it not in thy power? Why hast thou conceived this thing in thy heart? Thou hast not lied to men, but to God. Acts 5:4
- And Peter said unto her: Why have you agreed together to tempt the spirit of the Lord? Behold the feet of them who have buried thy husband are at the door: and they shall carry thee out, Acts 5:9
- And the day following, he shewed himself to them when they were at strife and would have reconciled them in peace, saying: Men, ye are brethren. Why hurt you one another? Acts 7:26
- And falling on the ground, he heard a voice saying to him: Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? Acts 9:4
- Saying: Why didst thou go in to men uncircumcised and didst eat with them? Acts 11:3
- And saying: Ye men, why do ye these things? We also are mortals, men like unto you, preaching to you to be converted from these vain things to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all things that are in them: Acts 14:15
- Now therefore, why tempt you God to put a yoke upon the necks of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear? Acts 15:10
- And falling on the ground, I heard a voice saying to me: Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? Acts 22:7
- And now why tarriest thou? Rise up and be baptized and wash away thy sins, invoking his name. Acts 22:16
- Why should it be thought a thing incredible that God should raise the dead? Acts 26:8
- And when we were all fallen down on the ground, I heard a voice speaking to me in the Hebrew tongue: Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? It is hard for thee to kick against the goad. Acts 26:14
- For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie, unto his glory, why am I also yet judged as a sinner? Rom. 3:7
- For why did Christ, when as yet we were weak, according to the time, die for the ungodly? Rom. 5:6
- For we are saved by hope. But hope that is seen is not hope. For what a man seeth, why doth he hope for? Rom. 8:24
- Thou wilt say therefore to me: Why doth he then find fault? For who resisteth his will? Rom. 9:19
- 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? Rom. 9:20
- Why so? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were of works. For they stumbled at the stumblingstone. Rom. 9:32
- But thou, why judgest thou thy brother? Or thou, why dost thou despise thy brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. Rom. 14:10
- For who distinguisheth thee? Or what hast thou that thou hast not received, and if thou hast received, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it? 1 Cor. 4:7
- Already indeed there is plainly a fault among you, that you have law suits one with another. Why do you not rather take wrong? Why do you not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded? 1 Cor. 6:7
- If others be partakers of this power over you, why not we rather? Nevertheless, we have not used this power: but we bear all things, lest we should give any hindrance to the gospel of Christ. 1 Cor. 9:12
- Conscience I say, not thy own, but the other's. For why is my liberty judged by another man's conscience? 1 Cor. 10:29
- If I partake with thanksgiving, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks? 1 Cor. 10:30
- Otherwise, what shall they do that are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not again at all? Why are they then baptized for them? 1 Cor. 15:29
- Why also are we in danger every hour? 1 Cor. 15:30
- Why then was the law? It was set because of transgressions, until the seed should come to whom he made the promise, being ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator. Gal. 3:19
- And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? Then is the scandal of the cross made void. Gal. 5:11
- If then you be dead with Christ from the elements of this world, why do you yet decree as though living in the world? Col. 2:20
- And the angel said to me: Why dost thou wonder? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman and of the beast which carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns. Apoc. 17:7
- O ye men, why are not wemen stronger? Great is the earth, and high is the heauen: who doeth these thinges? 3 Esd. 4:32
- saying: Why hast thou brought vs into this desert to kil vs? it had bene better for vs to serue the AEgyptians, then to dye in this desert. (Num. 14) 4 Esd. 1:18
- Why, doe they better thinges, that inhabite Babylon? And for this shal she rule ouer Sion? (Jer. 12) 4 Esd. 3:28
- And he answered me, and sayed: Thou hast iudged wel, and why hast thou not iudged for thy self? 4 Esd. 4:20
- And I answered, and sayd: How, and when shal these things be? why are our yeares few and euil? 4 Esd. 4:33
- And it came to passe in the second night, and Salathiel the prince of the people came to me, and sayd to me: Where wast thou? and why is thy countenance heauie? 4 Esd. 5:16
- And now Lord, why hast thou deliuered one vnto manie? And thou hast perpared vpon one roote others, and hast dispersed thy onlie one in manie: 4 Esd. 5:28
- And he sayd to me: Thou canst not. And I sayd: Why Lord? To what was I borne, or why was not my mothers wombe my graue, that I might not see the labour of Iacob, & the wearines of the stocke of Israel? 4 Esd. 5:35
- And he sayd to me: Aske the matrice of a woman, & thou shalt say to it: And if thou bring forth children, why by times? Aske it therfore, that it geue ten at once. 4 Esd. 5:46
- For thou shalt say to her: Why are not they whom thou hast brought forth, now like to them that were before thee, but lesse of stature? 4 Esd. 5:52
- and if the world was created for vs, why doe not we possesse inheritance with the world? how long these thinges? 4 Esd. 6:59
- Now therfore why art thou trubled, wheras thou art corruptible? and why art thou moued, wheras thou art mortal? 4 Esd. 7:15
- And why hast thou not taken in thy hart that which is to come, but that which is present? 4 Esd. 7:16
- If therfore now when corruptible did increase, and iniustice was multiplied, and the iust prayed for the impious: why now also shal it not be so? 4 Esd. 7:111
- Why weepest thou? and why art thou sorie in mynde. And she sayd to me: 4 Esd. 9:40
- What ayleth thee? and why is thy vnderstanding, and the sense of thy hart trubled, & why art thou trubled? And I sayd: 4 Esd. 10:31
- And I sayd: Lord dominatour, shew me this, why I saw a man comming vp from the hart of the sea, and he sayd to me: 4 Esd. 13:51