When Jesus asks a question he is sometimes taking the initiative; other times, like the good rabbi that he is, he is responding to a question with a question. This leaves the openness, the space for growth, for life, for everything. But then maybe, too, the Lord is saying there is no answer. Because, in fact, there is no question. Love has no questions. It is the ground of all, accepts all. There are questions only when there is division, absence, estrangement, alienation from the ground of being, which is God. . . .
And the questions themselves are a teaching.
— M. Basil Pennington, Living In the Question