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All the Questions of Jesus in the Four Gospels

Gospel of St Matthew
5:13	But if the salt loses its taste, with what can it be seasoned?
5:17	Do you think I have come to abolish the law and the prophets?
5:46	For if you love those who love you, what recompense will you have? Do not the tax collectors do the same?
5:47	And if you greet your brothers and sisters only, what is unusual about that? Do not the pagans do the same?
6:25	Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?
6:26	Are you not more important than they [the birds in the sky]?
6:27	Can any of you by worrying add a single moment to your life-span?
6:28	Why are you anxious about clothes?
6:30	If God so clothes the grass of the field, which grows today and is thrown into the oven tomorrow, will he not much more provide for you, O you of little faith?
7:3	Why do you notice the splinter in your brother’s eye, and do not perceive the wooden beam in your eye?
7:9f	Which one of you would hand his son a stone when he asks for a loaf of bread, or a snake when he asks for a fish?
7:16	Do people pick grapes from thorn bushes, or figs from thistles?
8:26	Why are you terrified, 0 you of little faith?
9:4	Why do you harbor evil thoughts?
9:5	Which is easier, to say, “Your sins are forgiven,” or to say, “Rise and walk”?
9:15	Can the wedding guests mourn as long as the bride groom is with them?
9:28	Do you believe that I can do this?
10:34	Do you think that I have come to bring peace upon the earth?
11:7	What did you go out to the desert to see? A reed swayed by the wind?
11:8	Then what did you go out to see? Someone dressed in fine clothing?
11:9	Then why did you go out? To see a prophet?
11:16	To what shall I compare this generation?
11:23	Will you be exalted to heaven?
12:3	Have you not read what David did when he and his companions were hungry, how he went into the house of God and ate the bread of offering which neither he nor his companions but only the priests could lawfully eat?
12:5	Or have you not read in the law that on the Sabbath the priests serving the temple violate the Sabbath and are innocent?
12:10	Is it lawful to cure on the Sabbath?
12:11	Which one of you who had a sheep that falls into a pit on the Sabbath will not take hold of it and lift it out?
12:26	If Satan drives out Satan, he is divided against himself; how then will his kingdom stand?
12:27	If I drive out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your own people drive them out?
12:29	How can anyone enter a strong person’s house and steal property unless he first ties up the strong one?
12:34	You brood of vipers, how can you say good things when you are evil?
12:48	Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?
13:51	Do you understand all these things?
14:31	O you of little faith, why did you doubt?
15:3	Why do you break the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition?
15:16	Are even you still without understanding?
15:17	Do you not realize that everything that enters into the mouth passes into the stomach and is expelled into the latrine?
15:34	How many loaves do you have?
16:8ff	O you of little faith, why do you conclude among yourselves that it is because you have no bread? Do you not understand? Do you not remember the five loaves for the five thousand and how many baskets you took up? Or the seven loaves for the four thousand and how many baskets you took up? How do you not comprehend that I was not speaking to you about bread?
16:13	Who do people say the Son of Man is?
16:15	But who do you say that I am?
16:26	What profit would there be for one to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?
16:26	What can one give in exchange for his life?
17:25	What is your opinion, Simon: From whom do the kings of the earth take tolls and census tax?
18:12	What is your opinion: If a person has a hundred sheep and one of them goes astray, will he not leave the ninety-nine in the hills and go in search of the stray?
20:14f	What if I wish to give this last one the same as you: am I not free to do as I wish with my own money?
20:15	Are you envious because I am generous?
20:20	What do you wish?
20:22	Can you drink the cup that I am going to drink?
20:32	What do you want me to do for you?
21:16	Have you never read the text: Out of the mouths of infants and nurslings you have brought forth praise?
21:25	Where was John’s baptism from: was it of heavenly or of human origin?
21:28ff	What is your opinion: which of the two did his father’s will?
21:40	What will the owner of the vineyard do to those tenants when he comes?
21:42	Did you never read the scriptures: The stone that builders rejected has become the cornerstone; by the Lord this has been done and it is wonderful in our eyes?
22:12	My friend, how is it that you came in here without a wedding garment?
22:18	Why are you testing me, you hypocrites?
22:20	Whose image is this and whose inscription?
22:31f	Concerning the resurrection, did you not read what was said to you by God: I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob?
22:42	What do you think about the Messiah: whose son is he?
22:43ff	How then does David, in the Spirit, call him “Lord”…; if David calls him “Lord,” how is he his son?
23:17	Fools and blind ones, which is greater: the gold or the shrine sanctifying the gold?
23:33	You serpents, you brood of vipers, how can you escape from the judgment of Gehenna?
24:45	Who then is the faithful and prudent slave whom the lord put over his household to give them food in season?
25:27	Should you not have put my silver pieces in the bank so that coming I would receive mine with interest?
26:10	Why do you trouble the woman?
26:40	So you could not watch with me for one hour?
26:53	Do you think that I cannot ask my Father and he will now provide me with more than twelve legions of angels?
26:54	How then may the Scriptures be fulfilled which say that it must be in this way?
26:55	Have you come out as against a robber with swords and clubs to take me?

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Gospel of St Mark
2:8	Why are you thinking such things in your hearts?
2:9	Which is it easier to say to the paralytic: Your sins are forgiven you, or Rise, pick up your mat and walk?
2:19	Can the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them?
2:25	Have you never read what David did when he was in need and he and his companions were hungry; how he entered the house of God in the days of Abiathar, high priest and ate the loaves set before the Lord which it is not lawful to eat except if you are a priest, and he gave them to those with him?
3:4	Is it lawful on Sabbaths to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill?
3:23	How can Satan expel Satan?
3:33	Who are my mother and brothers?
4:13	Do you not understand this parable? Then how will you understand any of the parables?
4:21	Is a lamp brought in to be placed under a bushel basket or under a bed and not to be placed on a lampstand?
4:30	To what shall we compare the kingdom of God or what parable can we use for it?
4:40	Why are you fearful like this; how have you not faith?
5:9	What is your name?
5:30	Who has touched my clothes?
6:38	How many loaves do you have?
7:18	Are you also undiscerning?
7:18f	Do you not understand that everything entering a person from the outside cannot defile him because it does not enter into the heart but into the stomach and goes out into the latrine, purging all foods?
8:5	How many loaves do you have
8:12	Why does this generation seek a sign?
8:17ff	Why do you conclude that it is because you have no loaves? Do you not yet understand and realize? Have your hearts been hardened? Do you have eyes and see not, have ears and hear not? And do you not remember when I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments did you take?
8:20	When I broke the seven for the four thousand, how many baskets full of fragments did you take?
8:21	Do you not yet realize?
8:23	Do you see anything?
8:29	But you, who do you say that I am?
8:36	What profits it a person to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?
8:37	What might a person give in exchange for his soul?
9:12	How has it been written concerning the Son of Man, that he should suffer many things and be set at naught?
9:16	What are you debating with them?
9:19	O unbelieving generation, how long shall I be with you, how long shall I endure you?
9:33	What were you debating on the way?
9:49	If salt becomes insipid, with what will it be seasoned?
10:4	What did Moses command you?
10:36	What do you wish me to do for you?
10:38	Can you drink the cup that I drink or be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized?
10:51	What do you want me to do for you?
11:17	Has it not been written: My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations?
11:30	Was John’s baptism of heaven or of human origin?
12:9	What will the lord of the vineyard do?
12:10	Have you not read this scripture: A stone which the ones building rejected, this became the cornerstone, by the Lord has this been done and it is wonderful in our eyes?
12:15	Why do you tempt me?
12:16	Whose image and inscription is this?
12:24	Do you err not knowing the scriptures nor the power of God?
12:26	But concerning the dead rising, did you not read in the book of Moses how at the bush God said to him: I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob?
12:35	How do the scribes say that the Christ is the son of David?
12:37	David himself calls him Lord; how then is he his son?
13:2	Do you see these great buildings?
14:14	Where is my guestroom where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?
14:37	Simon, do you sleep? Could you not watch one hour?
14:48	As against a robber have you come with swords and clubs to arrest me?
15:34	Eloi, eloi, lama sabachthani? My God, my God, why do you forsake me?

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Gospel of St Luke
2:49	Why did you seek me? Did you not know I must be about my Father’s affairs?
5:22	Why do you question in your hearts?
5:23	What is easier? To say: Your sins have been forgiven you, or to say: Rise and walk?
6:2	Why do you do what is not lawful on the Sabbath?
6:3	Have you not read what David did when he and those with him were hungry?
6:9	I ask you if it is lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do evil, to save life or to destroy?
6:32	If you love those loving you, what thanks is due to you there?
6:33	If you do good to those doing good to you, what thanks is due to you there?
6:34	If you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what thanks is due to you there?
6:39	Can a blind person guide a blind one; will not both fall into a ditch?
6:41	Why do you see the mote in your brother’s eye but do not heed the beam in your own eye?
6:42	How can you say to your brother: Let me take out the mote in your eye, not seeing the beam in your own eye?
6:46	Why do you call me: Lord, Lord, and do not what I say?
7:24	What did you go into the desert to see — a reed being shaken in the wind?
7:25	What did you go out to see — a man clothed in soft garments?
7:26	What did you go out to see — a prophet?
7:31	To what then may I liken the men of this generation and to what are they like?
7:42	Which of them [two forgiven debts] will love him more?
7:44	Do you see this woman?
8:25	Where is your faith?
8:30	What is your name?
8:45	Who is the one touching me?
9:18	Whom do the crowds say that I am?
9:20	But you, who do you say that I am?
9:25	What is the profit to a person who gains the whole world but loses or suffers the loss of himself?
9:41	O generation unbelieving and perverted, how long shall I be with you and endure you?
10:15	And you, Capernaum, were you not lifted to heaven?
10:26	In the Law, what has been written? How do you read it?
10:36	Who of these three does it seem to you became neighbour to the one who fell among the robbers?
11:5	Who of you has a friend who comes to him at midnight and says to him: Friend, lend me three loaves since a friend of mine has come to me off a journey and I haven’t anything to set before him; and the one within answering says: Do not cause me trouble; the door has now been shut and my children are with me in bed; I cannot get up to give them to you?
11:11	Which father among you, if your son asks for a fish, will hand him not a fish but a serpent? Or if he asks for an egg, will hand him a scorpion?
11:18	And if Satan divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand?
11:19	But if I expel the demons by Beelzebub, by whom do your sons expel them?
12:6	Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings?
12:14	Man, who appointed me a judge or a divider over you?
12:25	And which of you being anxious can add a cubit to your stature?
12:26	If tlèrefore you cannot do the least thing, why are you anxious concerning other things?
12:42	Who then is the faithful steward, the prudent one, whom the lord will appoint over his household attendants to give out the portion of food in due time?
12:51	Do you think that I have come to give peace on the earth?
12:56	Hypocrites, you know how to discern the face of the earth and of the heavens; how is it that you do not know how to discern this time?
12:57	And why, even among yourselves, you do not judge what is righteous?
13:2	Do you think that these Galileans were sinners above all the Galileans because they suffered these things?
13:4	Or those eighteen on whom the tower of Siloam fell, killing them, do you think they were debtors above all the other men dwelling in Jerusalem?
13:7	Why does it even spoil the ground?
13:15	Hypocrites, does not each one of you on the Sabbath loosen his ox or ass from the manger and lead it away to drink?
13:16	And this woman, a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan held bound eighteen years, was it not fitting that she be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath day?
13:18	What is the Kingdom of God like, to what may I liken it?
13:20	To what may I liken the Kingdom of God?
14:3	Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath or not?
14:5	Which of you, if a son or an ox falls into a pit, will not pull it up on the Sabbath day?
14:28	For who of you, wishing to build a tower does not, sitting down, first reckon the cost, if he has enough for completion?
14:31	Or what king going to attack another king in war does not, sitting down, explore if he is able with ten thousand to meet the one coming upon him with twenty thousand?
15:4	What man among you, having a hundred sheep and losing one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the desert and go after the one who has been lost until he finds it?
15:8	Or what woman, having ten drachmae, if she loses one drachma, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and seek carefully until she finds it?
16:2	What is this I hear about you?
16:11	If you have not been faithful in regard to the mammon of unrighteousness who will entrust the true to you?
16:12	And if in regard to what belongs to another you have been unfaithful, who will give you yours?
17:7	But which one of you having a slave ploughing or herding, when he comes in off the farm will say to him: Come up and sit down; rather will he not say to him: prepare something that I may dine and gird yourself to serve me until I have eaten and drunk, and after this you may eat and drink?
17:9	Does he have thanks for the slave because the slave did the things commanded?
17:17	Were not ten cleansed? Where are the nine? Was only this stranger found returning to give glory to God?
18:7	Will not God vindicate his holy ones who cry to him day and night and be patient with them?
18:8	Nevertheless, when the son of Man comes will he find the faith on the earth?
18:19	Why do you call me good?
18:41	What do you wish me to do for you?
19:22	You knew that I am an exacting man, taking what I did not lay down and reaping what I did not sow?
19:23	And why did you not place my money on a [banker’s] table?
20:4	The baptism of John, was it from heaven or from men?
20:15	What therefore will the owner of the vineyard do to them?
20:17	What then has been written: The stone which the ones building rejected, this came to be the cornerstone?
20:24	Show me a denarius: of whom has it an image and superscription?
20:41	How do they say that the Christ is David’s son?
22:27	For who is greater: the one reclining or the one serving? Is it not the one reclining?
22:35	When I sent you without a purse and a wallet and sandals, were you short of anything?
22:46	Why do you sleep?
22:48	Judas, do you betray the Son of man with a kiss?
22:52	Do you come out as against a robber with swords and clubs?
23:31	If they do these things when the tree is full of sap, what may happen in the dry time?
24:17	What are these words which you exchange with each other as you walk?
24:19	What things?
24:26	Behooved it not the Christ to suffer these things and to enter into his glory?
24:38	Why have you been troubled and why do thoughts arise in your heart?
24:41	Have you any food here?

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Gospel of St John
1:38	What do you seek?
1:50	Because I told you I saw you underneath the fig tree, do you believe?
2:4	What is that to me and to you, woman?
3:10	You are a teacher of Israel and you do not know these things?
3:12	If I told you earthly things and you do not believe, how if I tell you heavenly things will you believe?
5:6	Do you wish to become whole?
5:44	How can you believe who receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory from the one God?
5:47	But if the writings of that one [Moses] you do not believe, how will you believe my words?
6:5	Where may we buy loaves so that these may eat?
6:61	Does this offend you?
6:62	What then; if you see the Son of man ascending where he was at first?
6:67	Do you not also wish to go?
6:69	Did not I choose you the Twelve?
7:19	Did not Moses give you the Law? Why do you seek to kill me?
7:23	If a man receives circumcision on a Sabbath and the law of Moses is not broken, why are you angry with me because I made a whole man healthy on the Sabbath?
8:10	Woman, where are they; has no one condemned you?
8:43	Why do you not comprehend my speech?
8:46	Who of you reproves me because of sin? If I speak truth why do you not believe me?
9:35	Do you believe in the Son of man?
10:32	Many of the Father’s good works I showed you; for which one of them do you stone me?
10:34	Is it not written in your law: I said, you are gods?
10:35	If he called gods those with whom the word of God was, and the scripture cannot be broken, do you say to him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, You blaspheme, because I said, I am the Son of God?
11:9	Are there not twelve hours in the day?
11:25f	I am the resurrection and the life; the one believing in me even if he should die will live and everyone living and believing in me does not die unto the age; do you believe this?
11:34	Where have you put him?
11:40	Did I not tell you, if you believe you will see the glory of God?
12:27	And now my soul has been troubled and what may I say: Father save me from this hour?
13:12	Do you know what I have done to you?
13:38	Will you lay down your life for me?
14:9	I am so long with you and you do not know me, Philip?
14:10	Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me?
18:11	The cup which the Father has given me, shall I not drink it?
18:21	Why do you question me?
18:34	Do you say this of yourself or have others told you about me?
20:15	Woman, why are you weeping? Whom do you seek?
21:5	Children, have you no fish?
21:15	Simon of John, do you love me more than these?
21:16	Simon of John, do you love me?
21:17	Simon of John, do you love me?
21:22	If I wish him to remain until I come, what is that to you?

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