132 questions on this theme across 13 books
“What is thine occupation? And whence comest thou? What is thy country? And of what people art thou?”
“Why hast thou done this?”
“What shall we do unto thee, that the sea may be calm unto us?”
“Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?”
“Doest thou well to be angry?”
“Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd?”
“Who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?”
“And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?”
“Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?”
“Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts?”
“But whereunto shall I liken this generation?”
“O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things?”
“Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders?”
“Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?”
“Are ye also yet without understanding?”
“Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?”
“Can ye not discern the signs of the times?”
“Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?”
“The baptism of John, whence was it? From heaven, or of men? Why did ye not then believe him?”
“But what think ye?”
“Whether of them twain did the will of his father?”
“When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen?”
“Why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites?”
“Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?”
“What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you?”
“Lord, is it I?”
“Master, is it I?”
“Friend, wherefore art thou come?”
“What is that to us?”
“Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands?”
“Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him;”
“Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?”
“Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer?”
“The baptism of John, was it from heaven, or of men?”
“Why then did ye not believe him?”
“What shall therefore the lord of the vineyard do?”
“Is it I? Is it I?”
“What shall we do then?”
“Master, what shall we do?”
“And what shall we do?”
“What reason ye in your hearts?”
“And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye?”
“Either how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me pull out the mote that is in thine eye, when thou thyself beholdest not the beam that is in thine own eye?”
“And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?”
“Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? And to what are they like?”
“John have I beheaded: but who is this, of whom I hear such things?”
“And who is my neighbour?”
“Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without make that which is within also?”
“How is it that ye do not discern this time?”
“Yea, and why even of yourselves judge ye not what is right?”
“Suppose ye that these Galilaeans were sinners above all the Galilaeans, because they suffered such things?”
“Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem?”
“Why cumbereth it the ground?”
“Why then believed ye him not?”
“What therefore shall the lord of the vineyard do unto them?”
“Why tempt ye me?”
“Judas, betrayest thou the Son of man with a kiss?”
“For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?”
“Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation?”
“How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only?”
“But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?”
“Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?”
“Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me?”
“But what sayest thou?”
“Woman, where are those thine accusers? Hath no man condemned thee?”
“Will he kill himself?”
“Why do ye not understand my speech?”
“Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me?”
“Thou wast altogether born in sins, and dost thou teach us?”
“Are we blind also?”
“Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?”
“Art not thou also one of his disciples?”
“Did not I see thee in the garden with him?”
“Shall I crucify your King?”
“Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? Lovest thou me?”
“Men and brethren, what shall we do?”
“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?”
“Tell me whether ye sold the land for so much?”
“How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord?”
“Did not we straitly command you that ye should not teach in this name?”
“Are these things so?”
“Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us?”
“Who made thee a ruler and a judge?”
“Have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness?”
“Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted?”
“Wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?”
“Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?”
“Thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?”
“Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?”
“Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? Thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?”
“Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? Thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?”
“Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?”
“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 not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come?”
“What then? Are we better than they?”
“What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?”
“How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?”
“What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace?”
“Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?”
“What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed?”
“What shall we say then? Is the law sin?”
“Was then that which is good made death unto me?”
“What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:”
“Wherefore?”
“Did not Israel know?”
“Are ye not carnal, and walk as men?”
“Are ye not carnal?”
“What will ye? Shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?”
“Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?”
“Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God?”
“Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot?”
“What? Know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body?”
“Are not they which eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar?”
“What say I then? That the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing?”
“Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?”
“What? Have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? Or despise ye the church of God, and shame them that have not? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you in this?”
“For what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? And what communion hath light with darkness?”
“But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin?”
“Wherefore then serveth the law?”
“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?”
“Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?”
“Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?”
“Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? Either a vine, figs?”
“From whence come wars and fightings among you? Come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?”
“Know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God?”
“Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?”
“And wherefore slew he him?”