Why do you worry about clothing? Think about how the flowers of the field grow; they do not work or spin.

Why do you see the speck in your brother’s eye, but fail to see the beam of wood in your own?

But he said to them, “Why are you cowardly, you people of little faith?” Then he got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and it was dead calm.

They cried out, “Son of God, leave us alone! Have you come here to torment us before the time?”

When the Pharisees saw this they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

Go and learn what this saying means: ‘I want mercy and not sacrifice.’ For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

Then John’s disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples don’t fast?”

Whenever you enter a town or village, find out who is worthy there and stay with them until you leave.

While they were going away, Jesus began to speak to the crowd about John: “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?

What did you go out to see? A man dressed in fancy clothes? Look, those who wear fancy clothes are in the homes of kings!

“To what should I compare this generation? They are like children sitting in the marketplaces who call out to one another,

And if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons cast them out? For this reason they will be your judges.

“Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don’t wash their hands when they eat.”

He answered them, “And why do you disobey the commandment of God because of your tradition?

The disciples asked him, “Why then do the experts in the law say that Elijah must come first?”

Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, “Why couldn’t we cast it out?”

At that time the disciples came to Jesus saying, “Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?”

Then Peter said to him, “Look, we have left everything to follow you! What then will there be for us?”

And about five o’clock that afternoon he went out and found others standing around, and said to them, ‘Why are you standing here all day without work?’

“What do you think? A man had two sons. He went to the first and said, ‘Son, go and work in the vineyard today.’