6.
Teaching concerning prayer
11:1-13
Luke 11
:1
11:1
And while He was in a certain place praying, when He ceased, a certain one of His disciples said to Him, Lord, teach us to pray, even as John also taught his disciples.
Luke 11
:2
11:2
And He said to them,
aWhen you
1pray, say,
2bFather, Your name be
csanctified; Your
dkingdom come.
Luke 11
:3
11:3
Give us each day our daily
abread.
Luke 11
:4
11:4
And aforgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone
bindebted to us. And do not bring us into
ctemptation.
Luke 11
:5
11:5
And He said to them, Who among you will have a friend and will go to him at midnight and say to him, Friend, lend me three loaves,
Luke 11
:6
11:6
Since a friend of mine has come to me from a journey and I have nothing to set before him;
Luke 11
:7
11:7
And that one, from inside, will answer and say, Do not trouble me; the door is already shut and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise up and give you
anything?
Luke 11
:8
11:8
I say to you, Even though he will not rise up and give him
anything because he is his friend, surely because of his shameless persistence he will rise and give him what he needs.
Luke 11
:9
11:9
1aAnd I say to you,
bAsk and it shall be given to you;
cseek and you shall find; knock and it shall be opened to you.
Luke 11
:10
11:10
For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it shall be opened.
Luke 11
:11
11:11
But what father among you
1whose son shall ask for a fish will instead of a fish hand him a snake?
Luke 11
:12
11:12
Or if he shall also ask for an egg will hand him a scorpion?
Luke 11
:13
11:13
If you then being
aevil know
how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the Father who is from heaven give the
1bHoly Spirit to those who
2ask Him!
7.
Rejected by the evil generation
11:14-32
Luke 11
:14
11:14
1And once He was
acasting out a demon, and it was dumb. And when the demon had gone out, the dumb man spoke, and the crowds marveled.
Luke 11
:15
11:15
But some of them said, By
1aBeelzebul, the ruler of the demons, He casts out the demons.
Luke 11
:16
11:16
And others,
atempting Him, bsought from Him a sign out of heaven.
Luke 11
:17
11:17
1But aHe,
bknowing their
2thoughts, said to them, Every kingdom divided against itself becomes desolate, and a house
divided against a house falls.
Luke 11
:18
11:18
And if Satan also is divided against himself, how shall his kingdom stand? For you say that
it is by Beelzebul
that I cast out the demons.
Luke 11
:19
11:19
But if I by Beelzebul
acast out the demons, by whom do your sons cast
them out? Therefore they shall be your judges.
Luke 11
:20
11:20
But if I by the
1finger of God cast out the demons, then the
akingdom of God has come upon you.
Luke 11
:21
11:21
When the
astrong man, fully armed, guards his own
1homestead, his possessions are in peace.
Luke 11
:22
11:22
But when one
1stronger than he comes upon
him and
aovercomes him, he takes away his whole armor in which he had trusted and
bdistributes his spoil.
Luke 11
:23
11:23
1He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gather with Me scatters.
Luke 11
:24
11:24
1When the unclean
aspirit goes out from the man, it roams through waterless places, seeking rest, and not finding
it, it says, I will return to my house from which I came out.
Luke 11
:25
11:25
And it comes and finds
it swept and decorated.
Luke 11
:26
11:26
Then it goes and takes along other spirits more evil than itself, seven
of them, and they enter and settle down there. And the last
state of that man becomes
aworse than the first.
Luke 11
:27
11:27
And as He said these things, a certain woman out of the crowd lifted up
her voice and said to Him,
aBlessed is the womb that bore You and the breasts at which You nursed.
Luke 11
:28
11:28
But He said, Blessed rather are those who
ahear the word of God and keep
it.
Luke 11
:29
11:29
1And as the crowds were thronging together, He began to say,
aThis generation is an evil generation; it
bseeks a sign, and a sign shall not be given to it except the sign of
cJonah.
Luke 11
:30
11:30
For even as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so also will the Son of Man be to this generation.
Luke 11
:31
11:31
The aqueen of the south will rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation and will
bcondemn them, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the
cwisdom of Solomon, and behold, something
dmore than Solomon is here.
Luke 11
:32
11:32
aNinevite men will stand up in the judgment with this generation and will condemn it, because they
brepented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, something more than Jonah is here.
8.
Warning not to remain in darkness
11:33-36
Luke 11
:33
11:33
No one, after lighting a
1alamp, puts
it in the cellar or under the
2bushel, but on the
3lampstand, in order that those who enter in may see the light.
Luke 11
:34
11:34
The alamp of the body is your eye. When your eye is
1single, your whole body also is
2full of light; but when it is
3bevil, your body also is dark.
Luke 11
:35
11:35
Watch out therefore that the
1light which is in you is not darkness.
Luke 11
:36
11:36
If therefore your whole body is full of light and does not have any dark part, the whole will be full of light as when the lamp with its rays illuminates you.
9.
Rebuking the Pharisees and lawyers
11:37-54
Luke 11
:37
11:37
Now as He spoke, a Pharisee asked Him to have the
1morning ameal with him; and He went in and reclined
at table.
Luke 11
:38
11:38
But the Pharisee, seeing
it, marveled that He had not first
1awashed before the meal.
Luke 11
:39
11:39
But the Lord said to him, Again, you Pharisees
acleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but your inside is full of extortion and wickedness.
Luke 11
:40
11:40
aFoolish ones! Did not He who made the outside make the inside also?
Luke 11
:41
11:41
But agive the things which are
1within as alms, and behold, all things are
bclean to you.
Luke 11
:42
11:42
But woe to you, Pharisees! For you
agive a tenth of the
bmint and the rue and every herb, and pass by
1cjustice and love for God. But these you should have done and
2not passed by the others.
Luke 11
:43
11:43
Woe to you, Pharisees! For you love the
achief seat in the synagogues and the greetings in the
bmarketplaces.
Luke 11
:44
11:44
Woe to you! For you are like the unseen
atombs, and the men who walk over
them do not know
it.
Luke 11
:45
11:45
And one of the
alawyers answered and said to Him, Teacher, by saying these things, you
1insult us also.
Luke 11
:46
11:46
And He said, Woe to you lawyers also! For you burden men with burdens
ahard to bear, yet you yourselves do not
1touch the burdens with one of your fingers.
Luke 11
:47
11:47
Woe to you! For you
abuild up the
1tombs of the prophets, and your fathers
bkilled them.
Luke 11
:48
11:48
You are witnesses then and fully approve of the works of your fathers, because they killed them, and you build up
their tombs.
Luke 11
:49
11:49
Therefore the
1wisdom of God also has said, I will
asend to them
bprophets and apostles, and some of them they will
ckill and persecute,
Luke 11
:50
11:50
In order that the
ablood of all the prophets which has been poured out
bfrom the foundation of the world may be
crequired of this generation,
Luke 11
:51
11:51
From the blood of
aAbel to the blood of
bZachariah, who perished between the altar and the house. Yes, I tell you, it will be required of
1this generation.
Luke 11
:52
11:52
Woe to you
alawyers! For you have taken away the key of
bknowledge; you yourselves did not enter, and those who were entering, you
1chindered.
Luke 11
:53
11:53
And when He went out from there, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be very hostile and to provoke Him to speak concerning many things,
Luke 11
:54
11:54
aLying in wait for Him in order to
1catch bsomething out of His mouth.
