153 questions on this theme across 18 books
“Why will ye go with me? Are there yet any more sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?”
“What meanest thou, O sleeper?”
“Why hast thou done this?”
“What shall we do unto thee, that the sea may be calm unto us?”
“Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?”
“Are ye not much better than they?”
“Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?”
“And why take ye thought for raiment?”
“Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?”
“What shall we eat? What shall we drink? Wherewithal shall we be clothed?”
“Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith?”
“Believe ye that I am able to do this?”
“Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing?”
“Art thou he that should come, or do we look for another?”
“And his sisters, are they not all with us? Whence then hath this man all these things?”
“O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?”
“Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying?”
“Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude?”
“How many loaves have ye?”
“O ye of little faith, why reason ye among yourselves, because ye have brought no bread?”
“Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?”
“Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?”
“How is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees?”
“How long shall I be with you? How long shall I suffer you?”
“Why could not we cast him out?”
“What will ye that I shall do unto you?”
“How soon is the fig tree withered away!”
“Tell us, when shall these things be? And what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?”
“What, could ye not watch with me one hour?”
“Master, carest thou not that we perish?”
“Why are ye so fearful? How is it that ye have no faith?”
“What manner of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?”
“Who touched my clothes?”
“Thou seest the multitude thronging thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me?”
“Why troublest thou the Master any further?”
“Why make ye this ado, and weep?”
“Shall we go and buy two hundred pennyworth of bread, and give them to eat?”
“From whence can a man satisfy these men with bread here in the wilderness?”
“Why doth this generation seek after a sign?”
“Why reason ye, because ye have no bread? Perceive ye not yet, neither understand? Have ye your heart yet hardened?”
“Having eyes, see ye not? And having ears, hear ye not? And do ye not remember?”
“When I brake the five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up?”
“And when the seven among four thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up?”
“How is it that ye do not understand?”
“If he saw ought”
“What question ye with them?”
“How long is it ago since this came unto him?”
“Who then can be saved?”
“What wilt thou that I should do unto thee?”
“Why then did ye not believe him?”
“Seest thou these great buildings?”
“Tell us, when shall these things be? And what shall be the sign when all these things shall be fulfilled?”
“Simon, sleepest thou? Couldest not thou watch one hour?”
“Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre?”
“Whereby shall I know this?”
“How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?”
“Art thou he that should come? Or look we for another?”
“Where is your faith? What manner of man is this!”
“Who touched me? Master, the multitude throng thee and press thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me?”
“O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you, and suffer you?”
“Lord, dost thou not care that my sister hath left me to serve alone?”
“For a friend of mine in his journey is come to me, and I have nothing to set before him?”
“Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God?”
“How much more are ye better than the fowls?”
“Which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?”
“If ye then be not able to do that thing which is least, why take ye thought for the rest?”
“How much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith?”
“For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?”
“Or what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand?”
“Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?”
“What wilt thou that I shall do unto thee?”
“Wherefore then gavest not thou my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have required mine own with usury?”
“Why then believed ye him not?”
“Master, but when shall these things be? And what sign will there be when these things shall come to pass?”
“When I sent you without purse, and scrip, and shoes, lacked ye any thing?”
“Why sleep ye?”
“Lord, shall we smite with the sword?”
“Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation?”
“Why seek ye the living among the dead?”
“Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?”
“Why are ye troubled? And why do thoughts arise in your hearts?”
“Have ye here any meat?”
“Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth?”
“Because I said unto thee, I saw thee under the fig tree, believest thou?”
“Wilt thou be made whole?”
“How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only?”
“Whence shall we buy bread, that these may eat?”
“There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves, and two small fishes: but what are they among so many?”
“What sign shewest thou then, that we may see, and believe thee? What dost thou work?”
“This is an hard saying; who can hear it?”
“Doth this offend you?”
“Will ye also go away?”
“Lord, to whom shall we go?”
“When Christ cometh, will he do more miracles than these which this man hath done?”
“Is this your son, who ye say was born blind? How then doth he now see?”
“Master, the Jews of late sought to stone thee; and goest thou thither again?”
“Are there not twelve hours in the day?”
“Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God?”
“What think ye, that he will not come to the feast?”
“Lord, who hath believed our report? And to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed?”
“Lord, why cannot I follow thee now?”
“Wilt thou lay down thy life for my sake?”
“None of you asketh me, Whither goest thou?”
“What is this that he saith unto us, A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me: and, Because I go to the Father?”
“What is this that he saith, A little while?”
“Do ye now believe?”
“Art not thou also one of this man's disciples?”
“Art not thou also one of his disciples?”
“Did not I see thee in the garden with him?”
“Woman, why weepest thou?”
“By what power, or by what name, have ye done this?”
“What shall we do to these men?”
“Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye.”
“Did not we straitly command you that ye should not teach in this name?”
“Wilt thou kill me, as thou diddest the Egyptian yesterday?”
“Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”
“What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart?”
“King Agrippa, believest thou the prophets?”
“For what if some did not believe? Shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?”
“For what saith the scripture?”
“What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?”
“Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power?”
“Hast thou faith?”
“Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize?”
“If Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?”
“Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? Why are they then baptized for the dead?”
“And why stand we in jeopardy every hour?”
“If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not?”
“For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men?”
“O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?”
“Who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?”
“Night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face, and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith?”
“Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?”
“How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation”
“For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.”
“But with whom was he grieved forty years? Was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?”
“And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?”
“And what shall I more say?”
“I will not fear what man shall do unto me”
“Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?”
“For what is your life?”
“Who is he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that which is good?”
“Where is the promise of his coming?”
“Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?”
“Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?”
“Who shall be able to stand?”
“Who is like unto the beast? Who is able to make war with him?”
“Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name?”