156 questions on this theme across 16 books
“Why then call ye me Naomi, seeing the LORD hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me?”
“Where hast thou gleaned to day? And where wroughtest thou?”
“Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?”
“Was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country?”
“Doest thou well to be angry?”
“Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd?”
“For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? Do not even the publicans the same?”
“Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?”
“Are ye not much better than they?”
“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?”
“Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?”
“Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?”
“If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?”
“Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing?”
“What man shall there be among you, that shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out?”
“Why speakest thou unto them in parables?”
“Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? From whence then hath it tares?”
“How many loaves have ye?”
“How think ye? If a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray?”
“Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female”
“And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?”
“Why callest thou me good?”
“Didst not thou agree with me for a penny?”
“Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?”
“Hearest thou what these say? Have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?”
“When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen?”
“Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?”
“Therefore in the resurrection whose wife shall she be of the seven?”
“I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?”
“Master, which is the great commandment in the law?”
“Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?”
“Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?”
“Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?”
“But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?”
“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?”
“Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer?”
“Have ye not read this scripture; The stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner:”
“This was the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?”
“Whose is this image and superscription?”
“In the resurrection therefore, when they shall rise, whose wife shall she be of them?”
“Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God?”
“Have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?”
“Which is the first commandment of all?”
“Whereby shall I know this?”
“And whence is this to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?”
“What manner of child shall this be!”
“Is it lawful on the sabbath days to do good, or to do evil? To save life, or to destroy it?”
“For a friend of mine in his journey is come to me, and I have nothing to set before him?”
“If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?”
“Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion?”
“If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?”
“Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without make that which is within also?”
“Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God?”
“Then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?”
“How much more are ye better than the fowls?”
“How much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith?”
“Why cumbereth it the ground?”
“Unto what is the kingdom of God like? And whereunto shall I resemble it?”
“Whereunto shall I liken the kingdom of God?”
“What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?”
“Either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it?”
“And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?”
“What shall I do?”
“What therefore shall the lord of the vineyard do unto them?”
“What is this then that is written, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner?”
“Whose image and superscription hath it?”
“Therefore in the resurrection whose wife of them is she?”
“When I sent you without purse, and scrip, and shoes, lacked ye any thing?”
“Whence knowest thou me?”
“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?”
“Where is thy Father?”
“Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?”
“Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God?”
“Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? How sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?”
“The cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it?”
“Speakest thou not unto me? Knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee, and have power to release thee?”
“Children, have ye any meat?”
“Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?”
“Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans?”
“And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?”
“What meaneth this?”
“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 did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things?”
“How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord?”
“Are these things so?”
“What house will ye build me? Or what is the place of my rest?”
“Hath not my hand made all these things?”
“What is it, Lord?”
“What was I, that I could withstand God?”
“Wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?”
“Sirs, why do ye these things?”
“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?”
“May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is?”
“What is that thou hast to tell me?”
“Hast thou appealed unto Caesar?”
“Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?”
“Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?”
“Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?”
“What advantage then hath the Jew? Or what profit is there of circumcision?”
“For what if some did not believe? Shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?”
“But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance?”
“For then how shall God judge the world?”
“For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?”
“Is he the God of the Jews only? Is he not also of the Gentiles?”
“What shall we say then? Is the law sin?”
“What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?”
“He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?”
“What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God?”
“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?”
“Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?”
“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:”
“And how shall they preach, except they be sent?”
“Hath God cast away his people?”
“Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias?”
“But what saith the answer of God unto him?”
“What then?”
“Have they stumbled that they should fall?”
“Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?”
“For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?”
“For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?”
“For who hath known the mind of the Lord? Or who hath been his counsellor?”
“Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?”
“For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him?”
“For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him?”
“Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?”
“What? Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?”
“Doth God take care for oxen?”
“Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the temple? And they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar?”
“Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?”
“How are the dead raised up? And with what body do they come?”
“O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?”
“When I therefore was thus minded, did I use lightness? Or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be yea yea, and nay nay?”
“How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?”
“And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols?”
“He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?”
“Is the law then against the promises of God?”
“For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God”
“But to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool?”
“God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?”
“What is man, that thou art mindful of him? Or the son of man, that thou visitest him?”
“And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children”
“For what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?”
“Shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?”
“I will not fear what man shall do unto me”
“Know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God?”
“Who art thou that judgest another?”
“Where is the promise of his coming?”
“Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof?”
“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?”